Re: Interview with Henry Wilhelm on print permanence

In article <1178322277.137906@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, frederick <lost@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes
>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.

Then you have missed the whole point of the article I posted because 
Wilhelm tested Epson media and others available at the time.  Whilst 
most media had display lives of the order of a few months, Wilhelm 
*****sed the Epson ink and gloss media to have 26 YEARS of life - much 
better than anything available.  Nobody expected to achieve 26 years 
unless the exact test conditions were used.  Many people made exactly 
the same mistake as you have suggested and expected 26 years to indicate 
that "it would last much longer than an ink/paper combination rated at" 
months.  They were WRONG, and so are you!

The fact is that Epson got into problems with the claims they made based 
on Wilhelm's testing because the test was meaningless and their prints 
only lasted days and, in some cases, hours!
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