what about making a color xerox (or what ever brand copier) of the print. I don't know how archival the toners used in color copiers are, but they are likely better than the standard ink jet ink. These may be pigment based rather than dye based. If so there are likely far more stable.
I knew a photographer once who was on a limited budget - shot everything on slides (a six by nine slides from a Makina - spent all his money on this camera!) - when he wanted a prints he took his slides to a color copying shop and made enlargments on the copier. He soon knew how to use the copiers better than most people who ran the shops. Took things a step further and cut up his color copies and made photo-collages, using his own and "found" images and copied the collage to make its final collage print. One could do this with a computer now. Oops but this isn't pinhole. That was ten years ago - I'll see if I have any of his color copy prints, and check whether they have degraded. On Tue, 14 Aug 2001, Jan Hinderson wrote: > Does anyone know a better alternative than Canons own colurs for their > printers? I use a Canon BJC 7000 printer with Canon BC-60 Black ink and BC 62 > Photo Color ink. > I have not had any problems before, but in my last exhibition I hung my > pinhole colour prints in a greenhouse where they have been exposed to direct > sunlight all day for two months and upon that high humidity in the nights. > And that was a bit too tough! In the last weeks of the exhibition the > pictures began to lose some of the colour, they became paler and turned more > to the green. > The theme for the picuters is garden vegetation and from a philosophical > point of view I can se the changes in the print colour as a parallell to the > changes in nature when we are turning into late summer and autumn - but I > don't think that the potential buyers of my pictures are willing to buy that > kind of reasoning. > So - is there a more resistant and safe printer ink on the market, that one > can use in Canon printers? > > Jan Hinderson > > > _______________________________________________ > Pinhole-Discussion mailing list > Pinhole-Discussion@p at ??????? > unsubscribe or change your account at > http://www.???????/discussion/ > --------------------------------------------------------- Gordon J. Holtslander Dept. of Biology hol...@duke.usask.ca 112 Science Place http://duke.usask.ca/~holtsg University of Saskatchewan Tel (306) 966-4433 Saskatoon, Saskatchewan Fax (306) 966-4461 Canada S7N 5E2 ---------------------------------------------------------
