Re: [Leica] Re: dry & wet darkroom :-()-:

[MTomalty@aol.com]

Tina and Johnny

For myself,who has become a convert to digital technologies in the
past year,the fear I have with selling digitally output images is in the
current stability of many of the products being used now.
With a traditional silver print time has shown that if an image is
developed,fixed,and washed in a specific manner it WILL last for a
specific period of time as has been proven by the actual passing of time.
With digital images most of this 'longevity' is for now purely based
on accelerated aging test and the like. With the rapid development of
newer,more archival products each month,it seems we are hearing more and
more tales of inconsistency between printers,batches of paper,inks,etc.
It's not that the problems occur arcoss the board,but rather that they are
ramdom and unpredictable that make me nervous about committing fully at
this time. Does the Piezo process provide a greater degree of certainty
with regards to archival properties than does something offered by Epson?

Mark T