Re: Interview with Henry Wilhelm on print permanence

All the manufacturers pay the Wilhelm Research Institute to conduct the 
tests.

This has been a major credibility issue for many people, but then the 
money has to come from somewhere.

Cheers,

Wayne

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Rob wrote:
> Mr.T wrote:
> 
>> "frederick" <lost@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
>> news:1178322277.137906@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>
>>> Sure - I agree that because an ink/paper combination gets a 200 year
DPR
>>> from Wilhelm doesn't mean it will last 200 years on my dining room
wall.
>>>  But you can be highly confident that it will last much longer than an
>>> ink/paper combination rated at 10 years.
>>
>>
>> And that is where you may be mistaken. As others have pointed out 
>> already,
>> that would ONLY be the case IF the dominant mode of failure was under 
>> test,
>> or at least common to both cases. This CANNOT be assumed to always be 
>> so. In
>> fact the Epson case makes that quite obvious.
>>
>> MrT.
>>
>>
> 
> I also think Epson do sponsor the Wilhelm tests.
> 
> rm