Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/12/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Blurb books and most 4 color printing is not "archival" The lay of ink is thin and sparse. Put a blurb book (or magazine or) in the sun and another in a drawer check back in a few months Fond regards, George george@imagist.com http://www.imagist.com http://www.imagist.com/blog http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist On Dec 12, 2008, at 12:06 AM, Mark Rabiner wrote: > I've been searching the internet for 20 minutes and have not found > anything > about the Blurb book paper being archival. > > > > mark@rabinergroup.com > Mark William Rabiner > > > >> From: Brian Reid <reid@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> >> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> >> Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 15:01:12 -0800 >> To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> >> Subject: Re: [Leica] Archival 4x6 Prints? >> >> The Hewlett Packard Indigo printers are not inkjet printers, they >> are printing >> presses. They have rotating drums that get ink on them and then >> press the ink >> onto a piece of paper. It is genuine offset printing, and the inks >> are >> printing inks, which more closely resemble pigment than dye. >> Electro-ink is >> not the same thing that you would put into a Heidelberg press, but >> it more >> closely resembles that than anything else. >> >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indigo_Digital_Press >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information