Re: millennium liquid laminate

["David Dyer-Bennet" <dd-b@dd-b.net>]

ACC0147@cs.com <ACC0147@cs.com> writes on 16 January 2000 at 10:06:24 EST
 > So, maybe the millennium laminate doesn't give us 100 years of protection.  
 > How about one fifth of that!  I'll settle for 20 years of protection!!  I'm 
 > tempted to forget the archival inks.  Print my watercolors on archival paper 
 > (Probably arches watercolor) using Epson inks for the best looking prints, 
 > spray with millennium, frame with uv protected glass, and add a warning about 
 > direct sunlight with a 10 year guarantee against faiding or a replacement 
 > print at cost.  Sounds like the easiest, and cheapest, and most honest way to 
 > go!!  What do you all think?  Celeste

I think that no independent testing has yet shown any coating or
laminate to significantly extend the life of inkjet prints, and that
Wilhelm and Ctein both recommend either extreme caution, or complete
abstention, in the use of coatings.  Some anecdotal cases (including a
note from Wilhelm that didn't specify the coating or substrate) show
severe *reduction* of permanence with some coatings. 

So I think the evidence right now is clearly against coatings.
Perhaps some day a coating that works will be developed.  Perhaps
millennium is it.  I see no special reason to think so yet. 

Frankly I completely discount manufacturers claims in this, when
they're completely against all the independent evidence.
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