Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/02/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Steve: The digital printers say their process is very long lasting. Create you picture, store the file to a CD rom and then when your electonic ouput that you printed fades in a year, pop the Cd in your computer and make another matching print. The same long term life can be said of negatives and Kodachromes. There is probably a better chance of reprinting a negative or slide fifty years from now than there is finding a device to read a cd fifty years from now. I on the other hand, have just orderd an Epson stylus Ex that will do 11X14 prints. The Nova Scotia Photoguild is just starting to allow electronic prints into competition and a member just had on come back from an outside compitiion with high marks. In this case, as long as the prints last a few months to see their way through the competitions, the fading is not an issue. I still wait the day for the film recorder that will put the photoshop edited slides back onto slides with a high quality. Regards, Robert At 06:19 PM 2/7/99 -0500, you wrote: >B.D., > >So what is the answer for archival short of the dark room? AGFA 15K film >printers? What is out there for the photodigitalist that gives longevity? > >Steve > >"B. D. Colen" wrote: > >"...But remember, they are far from >archival. Dye sublimation has some ability to last. Ordinary ink jet output >is pathetic for longevity. There are sprays that help. But two years from >now, that digital print you hung on the wall will be gone. That B&W or >color "darkroom" print you made will still be an infant in it's archival." > > > > >