At 12:35 AM 8/26/2002 -0500, you wrote: >"It varies by paper type. PGPP has a 90-100 year life with the new pig inks >although the mattes paper have a much shorter life than with the previous >ink >set." > >Ok, my question is, how can we possibly know this with certainty?? I don't >know that I would trust wedding photos to this.....the technology just >hasn't been around long enough to know for certain. > > Angi, Believe me carbon inks on any paper will last "forever" in a wedding album. I have hundred year-old newspaper clippings stored poorly that are yellow but the ink hasn't changed. I think the testing methods used for inkjet materials have very little practical value for determining long-term image-keeping properties. AZ Maker of Lookaround panoramic camera. http://www.panoramacamera.us or keyword.com lookaround
