Archival Printers

janderso@mcis.messiah.edu
Thu, 5 Oct 95 09:33:00 -0400

I am presently involved in a search for a color printer that will output
'archival' prints. From what I have read on this list, my standards for
archival are fairly liberal. I'm looking for something that will suffer minimal
quality loss over a period of 10 or so years. I know that this is hard to judge
with technologies that haven't been around for more than a few years. I am
familiar with output from the Iris color printer, but as far as I understand
it, a special coating must be applied to the prints to keep them from fading. I
would like to hear from people who have had experience with this, and other
printers. I would also like to know about printers that you have heard of, but
not had the oppurtunity to test out.

Jon Anderson
janderso@messiah.edu