With dark stored color print lifetimes from Epson inkjet printers
exceeding 300 years I don't think you need to hurry. In addition
there are companies that make carbon based B&W ink jet kits for Epson
printer that may extend that further. Carbon black is about as stable
as you get. 20,000 year old campfires and all that.
Look at:
http://www.wilhelm-research.com/
Winsor
Long Beach, California, USA
On Jul 24, 2006, at 3:51 PM, Brian Swale wrote:
>
> Hello all,
>
> Some time ago I mentioned that I am involved in planning and
> implementing
> a family re-union, the first for more than 40 years, and in the 150th
> anniversary of my great-grandfather and his bride coming to New
> Zealand.
>
> http://homepages.caverock.net.nz/~bj/SFR/
>
> I have several things to get in train before the next committee
> meeting in 2
> weeks' time, and I have got back into arranging a photographer.
>
> I have been working on the presumption that black and white prints
> would be
> the best form of photographic record, when it comes to making a good
> archival record. I based this assumption on the age of prints I
> have been
> working with when making images for use on the web-site; some of these
> images were well over 100 years old.
>
> This morning, and it is still morning here, my assumption took a
> huge knock.
>
> I had a conversation with a well-respected photographer in
> Christchurch city,
> and he told me that the B&W papers available here now, mainly from
> Kodak,
> have a guaranteed life of no more than 5 years. He said they have
> built-in
> obsolescence. He added that to import archival papers would cost a
> fortune.
>
> He also added that the oldest prints I have would be sulphide
> prints where
> the silver-halide had been substituted with some form of sulphide.
>
> Further, there is no commercial B&W lab available in Christchurch;
> I was
> beginning to suspect this; what he told me may confirm it. He
> closed down
> his B&W work about 4 years ago. The last B&W film I had developed, a
> month ago, was processed in Wellington city.
>
> I can see from the web-sites of major photo labs that medium format
> film
> processing is also just a minor activity in this city now.
>
> I obviously have a lot more to do and urgently. :-((
>
> Brian
>
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