16 May
2004
16 May
'04
12:35 a.m.
Does any type of archival-quality toner exist? After
a few years, the
pages from some laser printouts to stick together and some of the
toner comes off onto the pages opposite, so this sort of defeats
using acid-free paper.
The problem is that the toner never penetrates the fibres of the
paper, as inks do. The actual toner material is apparently very stable,
but because of the bonding problem, no right minded archivest can
recommend toner based printouts.
William Donzelli
aw288(a)osfn.org