Re: changing colours

That is because inkjet printers use ink that is really a "dye", and dyes
based prints fade over (little) time. The majority of current Inkjet prints
are not "archival" like real photographs from a darkroom can be.

I have noticed that Epson has begun to make archival printers, however
which they claim, the prints will last 200 years before fading. Be prepared
to spend more for most of these, though.

I would never sell a print to someone that is not "archival"... in a few years
they are certainly going to be upset!

On Tuesday 14 August 2001 04:07, you wrote:
> Does anyone know a better alternative than Canons own colurs for their
> printers? I use a Canon BJC 7000 printer with Canon BC-60 Black ink and BC
> 62 Photo Color ink. I have not had any problems before, but in my last
> exhibition I hung my pinhole colour prints in a greenhouse where they have
> been exposed to direct sunlight all day for two months and upon that high
> humidity in the nights. And that was a bit too tough! In the last weeks of
> the exhibition the pictures began to lose some of the colour, they became
> paler and turned more to the green. The theme for the picuters is garden
> vegetation and from a philosophical point of view I can se the changes in
> the print colour as a parallell to the changes in nature when we are
> turning into late summer and autumn - but I don't think that the potential
> buyers of my pictures are willing to buy that kind of reasoning. So - is
> there a more resistant and safe printer ink on the market, that one can use
> in Canon printers?
>
> Jan Hinderson
>
>
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Received on Tue Aug 14 07:03:25 2001