[Leica] Re: Archival 4x6 Prints?

[leicachris at worldnet.att.net (Chris Williams)]

Seth,

Epson has been using pigment inks in their higher end/pro printers for at 
least 6 or 7 yrs now. Maybe HP does as well, and Canon now does.

Chris

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Seth Rosner"
Subject: Re: [Leica] Archival 4x6 Prints?


> Something in a Kodak TV ad I saw yesterday prompted me to go back to this 
> post of Brian. Kodak said that one of the advantages of its new generation 
> printer is that rather than relying on dyes, as H-P and most other 
> printers do, Kodak's relies on pigments. I am not yet into the digital era 
> but my uneducated guess is that as yet, Kodak's photographic printers are 
> not at the high end for top quality prints. But if Kodak gets to that 
> point, would not photographers who care about such things prefer 
> pigment-based color prints that almost certainly will have longer archival 
> lives than those that are dye-based?
>
> Seth