On 06.07.2006 Richard Smith wrote:
My Canon (inexpensive) office/photo printer (i860) has pigment black ink for text (and music) work and dye photo black and color for photos and other color work. Archival studies have shown pigment inks to be very stable. They will last as long as a laser. If your using a pigment ink, you should be more concerned about the life of the paper than the ink. Most of the Epson printers also use pigment ink.
This is not the problem with ink. The problem is smudging when the ink is touched with sweaty fingers. Perhaps not the first time the ink is touched, but music parts are usually used over years, and smudging will occur. I have an almost identical ink jet printer (i865) with the same ink, and this problem is present at least with normal, un-coated paper. Coated paper behaves differently, but costs a lot more, plus I doubt it is available in ivory color.
As a matter of fact quite a lot of music even from large publishers is now photocopied and not printed. I have Peters parts of the Bach Brandenburgs which are photocopied or laserprinted, and also Bärenreiter parts. Most Carus parts are photocopied/laserprinted.
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