Digital BW, The Print

> Jerry, if you put them in sunlight, unprotected, they will color
> fade noticably in under 24 hours of exposure time.

Sorry Steve, this is simply not true. As I said, I have had VM ink prints in
a sunny window for 2 months and I can't tell them from a dark storage print.
Somewhere between 2 and 3 months, I do notice fading.

Jerry

As I said, The Gen 4 and MIS inks are the best I can get today, and I'm
simply not going to worry about fading any more.  I have a couple prints in
a local gallery that have been in frames, under fluorescent lights for over
2 years. They show absolutely no sign of fading.





 I have a south 
> facing window with 1/4 inch glass I tape them to, that gives them 4-
> 5 hours of direct sun every day. I once got 2 weeks before noticing
> fade-in a time period when it rained every day for for all but three
> days of that, and that's behind 1/4 glass. Obviously you can set up
> conditions that will greatly extend that time, but do you have
> control of that when you sell a print?
> 
>> If you print on 100 percent cotton paper that is acid
>> free, that's about as good as you can
>> expect today.
> 
> That may be true, but the real quetion is: is it realy good enough?
> 
> 
>> So I don't really worry about fading any more.  Both the
>> MIS inks and the Generations inks (Pigments)
>> are excellent at this stage of the game, as good as epsons, anyway.
> 
> No they're not.They are simply a great deal more available, but if
> you put any stock in the existing tests, the relative stability of
> the Epson archival inks is better, though I suspect that 100+ years
> on those is sheer delusion also.
>> 
>> There are a LOT of variables that could easily change these
> results, 
>> humidity, air quality, location, etc.
> 
> Well we do agree on that.
> 
> Steve K
>> 
>> Jerry
>> 
>> 
> 
> 
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