At 02:00 AM 12/14/2002 +0900, you wrote: >Alan Zinn <azinn@netbox.com> writes: > >> Why have some of the color snaps in my old family album turned a pale >> cyan/yellow while others look fine? Rhetorical question, don't answer :-) >> >> The reason I don't trust ANY claims for permanence is that the paper and >> inks are continuously being revised. [snip] > >Yes, of course what you say is good sense. But I'm not talking about >whether the prints will last 6 months or 3 years on the wall. I'm saying >that (at least by my entirely naive experiments) they don't last **two >weeks** in daylight. The really curious thing is that it isn't simply >the ink: on plain ordinary paper, although the finish isn't brilliant, >the print will last at least 6 months on the wall, without looking >noticeably horrible. > >Brian Chandler >---------------- >geo://Sano.Japan.Planet_3 >Jigsaw puzzles from Japan at: >http://imaginatorium.org/shop/ > Brian, The trouble you are having seems pretty weird. Is it extra humid all the time there? Like Dave T., I have old original EpsonPhoto color prints that look fine - in fact I always thought they were too vivid and wish they would fade back a bit :-) In fairness, I should revise what I said about HP inks. I said that their blacks fade. I should have said that the consumer-grade ink faded. Their commercial inks are rated at 100 years and are fab. They haven't a small, printer that uses them yet. AZ Build a Lookaround! The Lookaround Book. http://www.panoramacamera.us
