RE: Expected Life of Epson Ink + Archival Paper??

[Michael Greer <mgreer942@yahoo.com>]

--- David M Fanger <dfanger@world.std.com> wrote:
> Responding to Mike Greer, David Dyer-Bennet wrote:
> 
> >The problem with your theory of air exposure as the primary fading
> >mechanism is that controlled tests have found that prints exposed to
> >light fade much faster than prints kept in the dark, but otherwise
> >under similar conditions.
> 
> I don't know whose "controlled" tests found this to be true, nor how
> "similar" were the conditions of dark storage (were the control prints
> sealed hermetically from the effects of the dark storage ambience?). My own
> "controlled" tests suggest that air exposure is of very great importance.
> How else explain the fact that two identical prints on the same piece of
> Epson Film -- one image sprayed with Krylon, one not -- show radically
> different fading characteristics after two years of exposure to the light
> in my wife's drafting room? The unsprayed image is hopelessly faded; the
> sprayed image still pretty much matches the control print (sealed in an
> Epson plastic envelope and kept in the dark).

I thought I was the only one. This has been my exact experience. That's why
when I read that spraying doesn't help I wonder how this conclusion is arrived
at.

> 
> dave f.
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> Dave Fanger (dfanger@world.std.com)
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