Re: OT inkjet neg fading

On Tue, 30 Dec 2003, Clay Harmon wrote:
> ... In one of the articles was a graph that
> authors had done that showed the reflection density loss versus time
> for an Epson dye based print. Pretty enlightening! Especially since
> right next to it was an article on doing 'digital palladium' prints
> that allowed workers to get palladium quality while 'avoiding toxic
> chemicals'. I had to chuckle at that...

This was supposed to be fading simply from aging, or from drying out, or
from UV light exposure ???

I found that 2 hours under UV light did not change the (transmission)
densitometer reading of the black dye in my 1160 -- (normal exposure is 2
to 5 minutes). But that's for a negative where useful life of more
than a year or two doesn't matter.

So they're saying dye based prints aren't archival? Did we think
they were? What was the time period?

J.
Received on Wed Dec 31 02:42:00 2003