On Wednesday, September 05, 2001 at 9:14, Wayne Harridge
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wrote on "Re: Re: [OM] Re: Digital Musings," saying..
> > Skip Williams <skipwilliamsom@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Buy stock in ink and paper companies. Especially because most of
> > those
> > prints are going to fade and have to be re-printed.
The epson 2000 printer uses pigments, not dyes, and they estimate 200
years before a visible change.
> Also, what about archival storage of the digital images ?
CD life is ~100 years or more.
Film has to be very well washed to be archival.
B+W needs a hypo eliminator.
Color dyes are frangible by light, heat, age...
Tom
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