Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/10/21

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Subject: [Leica] Inkjet Print Life
From: lists at heninger.org (Wade Heninger)
Date: Fri Oct 21 05:56:53 2005

The Kodak paper was also the main one he was harping on - they said the 100
year claim was complete bogus, and that Kodak was virtually in the "fraud"
zone and should be sued.


On 10/20/05 10:43 PM, "Gerry Walden" <gwlists@aol.com> wrote:

> I have never had problems with prints from my canon S9000 (same inks
> etc. as your friend) and I think Canon themselves say 25 years, BUT the
> new Kodak Professional paper is supposed to be at least 100 years. If
> you switch to this be sure to download the new drivers for the printer
> from the Kodak site, and to convert to them before printing.
> 
> Gerry
> 
> Jim Christie wrote:
> 
>> 
>> I have a friend who has been told that her Canon i9900 prints will not
>> have a quality life beyond 2 or 3 years and she is so upset she is
>> thinking about buying a new printer. I told her that I didn't think
>> she should be so worried and that I thought the quality life of an
>> inkjet photograph had more to do with the ink and paper used.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> In fact, I think that if she were to use the high quality Canon
>> recommended paper along with her normal canon replacement inks that
>> her prints should have a life approximately equal to other printers of
>> equal value. Thus, I would think that, if her prints are under glass,
>> they should have a life of at least 50 or more years. Can any of you
>> help me with this issue?
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Jim
>> 
>> 
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