Really doesn't matter, Jay ... it's what works for him, and that's what's important. In this
day and age, inkjets prints are the easiest route for most people. I prefer a more tactile
darkroom route, which dye transfer is amenable to. But only a very small number of my
images will be printed that way. The whole difficulty of forecasting permanence with either
DT or inkjet is that there is no standardization of ingredients. Different dyes can be used,
just as inks per se contain many ingredients and many paper variations - some of the inks
actually contain dyes inferior to those often used in DT printing - so the long-term failure
is premature color shift in part of the spectrum. This is an area when Aadenburg seems to
have improved upon Wilhelm's studies. Back when I made a lot of Cibachromes I put samples up under all kinds of conditions, including abusive ones. I learned a lot more over
those decades about the real world than any extrapolated fade test could provide.
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