http://theagnosticprint.net/defining...photography-2/
A very interesting article that discusses the archival standard in photography.
Sandy
http://theagnosticprint.net/defining...photography-2/
A very interesting article that discusses the archival standard in photography.
Sandy
For discussion and information about carbon transfer please visit the carbon group at groups.io
[url]https://groups.io/g/carbon
Caveman drawings are archival!
500 years according to the Feds. http://www.nps.gov/hdp/standards/PhotoGuidelines.pdf
This was posted in the job section here.
Tin Can
Using this definition a photographic print is archival if it lasts as long as it is predicted to last.
For example, if a manufacturer publishes data predicting a life span of thirty years for a print material, and the print lasts without noticeable change for thirty years, it is an archival print.
Even allowing for the pervasive imprecision in use of the term "archival", without further qualification this makes no sense. By this standard, if a print medium has a specified life of 1 year and prints on that medium do indeed consistently last without noticeable change for 1 year, the medium is "archival".
The same thing the word "art" does. Anything anyone decides it means to them.Originally Posted by sanking
In other words, nothing.
All I know is I print carbon transfer on fixed out fiber paper. I think we are good aren't we Sandy?
I understand the technicality, but has not the standard specified a greater lifetime regardless of the manufacturer's statement? I'm thinking of the transient quality of something like a Polaroid print, but others might quality.
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What "standard?" There ain't none.
Of course it will depend of the pigments we use, Jim...and the longevity of the paper we transfer the image onto. The image itself when made of carbon and gelatin -- the toughest inorganic and organic (respectively) materials around.
All I know is that one better not use a lousy image to make a carbon print -- it is going to be around for a long while!
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