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Filemonster How many people display their prints in direct, unfiltered sunlight? And whose sunlight? Sorry, the best accumulated data for home display is not sunlight, but rather a much modified form of that power spectrum. That's where people hang their prints. And saying that it doesn't...

It is true that a pigmented ink is no guarantee of superior image permanence, but it increases the likelihood. A critical factor is the stability of the inherent colorant molecule (to light, ozone, thermal degradationall of which may be different) independent of the way it is dispersed. However...

Inkjet Master Wrote: The traditional Kodak photographic paper or films are coated with color dye couplers before printing. Once exposed to images and developed in photographic chemicals the dye couplers form dye images. This old traditional technology produces photos with color dyes that can...

Broadly speaking, two things govern the stability of a basic inkjet colorant: the stability of the molecule itself and its environment, which includes not only the solvent, the receiver matrix, etc., but also the morphology, that is whether it is a more or less isolated molecule (dye-based...