Printing your own coordinating papers

I'm sorry. Hit send before I meant to.

I have pictures I printed with this thing ten years ago and the colors are just as sharp as the day I did it. AND they have been hanging in sunlight all that time.

What printer? Printers until the last few years all used dye based inks. Which are not "archival". That of course doesn't mean you can't still have good prints after ten years. It just means it isn't using the ink technology you think it is.

Robert

Thanks for the link Autumn.

Teresa in MD

You can also download a free book (pdf) called "The Permanence and = Care of Color Photographs: Traditional and Digital Color Prints, Color = Negatives, Slides, and Motion Pictures"=20

Here is the first paragraph from the "About Us" page of the website.=20 ~~~~~~~~~~~~ Henry Wilhelm and Carol Brower Wilhelm=20 Wilhelm Imaging Research, Inc. conducts = research on the stability and preservation of traditional and digital = color photographs and motion pictures. The company publishes brand = name-specific permanence data for desktop and large-format inkjet = printers and other digital printing devices. Wilhelm Imaging Research = also provides consulting services to museums, archives, and commercial = collections on sub-zero cold storage for the very long term preservation = of still photographs and motion pictures.=20 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~

The decisions you make reguarding this are your own choice. :-)

As I said, I am the family genealogist/historian and I prefer to take = extra care making sure the things I do and the photographs I work with = will be here for generations to come. I don't want my work to only last =

50 years.=20

Autumn

3rd=20 > party inks and one that can handle the art paper. This way you can = use it=20 > affordably. Also, if you want to print 12"x12" you will need one of = the=20 > large format ones that can print 13"x19". >=20 > Robert=20 >=20 >

I like the look Rach, great job.

Teresa in MD