25 May
2005
25 May
'05
7:03 a.m.
On Tue, 24 May 2005, John Foust wrote:
From this perspective, ink jet looks as long-lasting
as any
water-soluble dipped-pen ink that's survived for a few hundred years
depending on conditions. Are archival ink-jet photo papers more
resin-coated?
I am pretty sure you can now get archival ink carthridges for inkjet
printers. Be prepared to pay even more than you normally do for these.
Yep, here's some:
http://www.box-shift.co.uk/cgi-bin/digitalink.asp?r=1
Are dye-sublimation printers (see
http://science.howstuffworks.com/question583.htm ) a good shot for
printing technologies that might be good for some crazy scheme like
Paperbytes that'll store digital data on paper?
I doubt the concept, but I am curious how dye sublimation holds out vs.
laser toner, which does outgas and tends to stick adjacent pages together
over time.
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