3dogs
Printer Master
- Joined
- May 13, 2012
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- Location
- Fern Hill, Australia
- Printer Model
- Epson 3880. Canon Pro 9000,
All of this talk on ink longevity is totally wasted because of the way that manufactures produce paper nowadays, leaves a lot to be desired.
What the point in boosting that your ink will last 200 years when the paper won’t last 25 or less years in a lot of cases, Paper made from wood pulp is a very poor substitute..
Not many " Archival " photo papers are pure wood pulp based, and IMHO the elephant in the room is more likely to be the air and the light around us that has MOST effect, there are profound changes to both afoot. as we speak.
Canson have been making "paper" for 500 years, there are books written in ink on cotton paper in Archives dating back 2014 PLUS ( not made by Canson).....
There is evidence aplenty of Dyes reaching similar ages on textiles adding to my assertion that it is not so much what, but HOW you choose to store your work.
True we have become somewhat lax and consumeristic (read planned obsolescence, oriented) but I have faith, no matter how slim that some of my prints will haunt and bring vengeance on OEM's way off in the future, when some as yet unseen youth is standing in the midst of Apple Park, scratching his head and wondering who the bronze
is supposed to have been 
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