Re: [Leica] [OT} what type of print is most archival? (was: [OT] Digital Dark...

["Aram Langhans" <langhans@yakima-wa.com>]

I am a bit behind in my digest, so maybe someone has already said this.

True, carbon is a basic building block of the universe, but then again so is
sodium.  A sodium print would last but a few moments in a humid environment.
It is a reactivity thing, not a basic building block thing.  The atoms of
sodium, carbon or platinum will not be destroyed, but they might meet
something that likes them better in a different form (if I might speak
anthropomorphically like I do to my students sometime) and that would be the
end of your print.

Do I know the answer to the initial question?  No.  But just because carbon
is a basic building block doesn't really answer the question, either.

Aram


> Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 09:08:34 EDT
> From: SthRosner@aol.com
> Subject: Re: [Leica] [OT} what type of print is most archival? (was: [OT]
Digital Dark...
> Message-ID: <134.ceb4ef6.29f01f52@aol.com>
> References:
>
> In a message dated 4/18/02 12:45:33 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
> kottjn@hotmail.com writes:
>
> > Do you seriously expect the carbon inks to last as long as platinum?
>
> Isn't this the same carbon ( C ) used in "carbon-dating" of fossils
thousands
> of years old? C'mon, pure carbon is one of the basic building blocks of
the
> universe, and everywhere else.
>
> Seriously.
>
> Seth         LaK 9


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