Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/11/09
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Deborah Dion wrote:
>
> The longevity of these inks matches that of traditional photographic
prints.
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> Debby Dion
>
So called 'archival' inkjet inks don't compare to either silver B&W
toned in selenium/gold or Cibachrome/Ilfochrome 'classic' ... and I still
haven't seen an inkjet picture which visually holds a candle to either of
these processes done correctly.... and in terms of archiving, I'd rather
print off a sixty year old negative or like aged Kodachrome any day of the
week rather than a like aged piece of magnetic media, format
incompatibilities aside. Really really really long term archiving on machine
readable media has not yet been done.
Jonathan Borden