Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Mark" <mark@...> wrote:
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> "Lastly, it's impossible to make a holistic or comprehensive print life prediction. Temperature, humidity, seasonal cycling, handling abuse, air pollution, and light all take their toll on a print, and while we can test for the sensitivity of prints to these various degradation processes and provide highly relevant information, we can't realistically combine the results to form one single, unifying, comprehensive overall rating."
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Thank you Mark for your clear explanations about print longevity.

To see how temperature and humidity may affect print life, the RIT Preservation Calculator may be of good use:

http://www.imagepermanenceinstitute.org/shtml_sub/dl_prescalc.asp

Andre