How long should one allow ink-jet prints to dry before handling them? I've read various recommendations from as little as 15 minutes, to “at least an hour” to Epson's recommendation that it takes about 24 hours for the colors to fully dry and stabilize.
I have several thousand 6x7 transparencies and some are quite good notwithstanding they may have been projected dozens of time over the years. Today I decided to go all out and print one (posted below) to 8.5x11 for my print album taking pains to remove all the dust in PS. It's out of the printer about two hours now and the smell of the ink is still detectable by the nose. The smell of ink on one that I printed yesterday is no longer detectable. Would whether or not the smell is detectable by the olfactory sense be a reliable reference gauge?
Since Cibachrome is no longer a viable alternative a worthwhile spare-time project would be to revisit the transparency collection and digitally print the better ones for an display album.
Epson 2200 on Premium Glossy Epson paper from a Epson 3200 scan.
Thomas
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