Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/11/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 03:43 PM 11/9/99 -0500, you wrote: > 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 Jonathan - Check out: http://www.inkjetmall.com/store/ and: http://www.cone-editions.com/workshops/ 120 years is pretty archival. The results are absolutely beautiful and this is only the beginning. New inks and papers are appearing every day. I make Ilfochromes and toned silver B&W, but I'm selling more digital prints now than darkroom prints. Check out the Epson e-mail list and I think you'll be surprised at how advanced digital inks and prints are. Tina Tina Tina Manley, ASMP http://www.tinamanley.com