Fading inkjet photos

[Brian]

And do you suppose you will buy a few dozen of these "eBooks" , frame
them, and hand them on a wall? =-O

They are PORTABLE devices not designed to hang on the wall. Ideal when
visiting a friend that wants to see your holiday photos.
It's possible to mount a thin flat screen TV on the wall so it's just
a matter of time when electronic photos will be mounted on walls. You
would then have a choice of a slide show of photos or you could change
the mood of the room by electronically changing the photos on the
wall.
We are living in the technlogical age where anything is possible.

Regards Brian

 

[Brian]

I don't think they think that far into the future! It's simply harder to
make inks that don't fade, and always have been. The reported increasing in
clogging of pigment inks is an example of a trade off that is required to
try to get more permanent images.

Evertime someone says that I look at some photos I printed on a old HP
inkjet printer on plain paper that has been on the wall for over 10
years. There is no sign of fading. It must be with the more recent
inks used that fading has been a problem.

Regards Brian

 

[Arthur Entlich]

Ozone is a reducing agent (bleach) and as such can cause fading. But it
depends upon the ink and the paper involved. Microporous papers tend to
be more easily harmed by ozone than swellable polymers.

But, again, it all depends upon the inks. Even air current across the
paper surface can be enough to cause fading of some inks, especially
light dye load inks. Cyan seems to be more vulnerable than other dyes,
for some reason.

Art

 

[Arthur Entlich]

DVD-R or CD-R are great for making slide shows, but how long they will
last is the million dollar question, just like the inks, DVD-R and CD-R
use dyes, which do indeed fade or degrade over time. SOme last months,
others years, and others possibly decades or centuries.

Also, the question of what will read the disks 10, 20 50 years from now
is hard to know. Try finding a working 8" floppy drive somewhere.

Art

 

[Hecate]

Good - I just hope everyone is as thorough as you.

Yeah right ;-)

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Hecate - The Real One
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Fashion: Buying things you don't need, with money
you don't have, to impress people you don't like...

 

[Bob Headrick]

I'm wondering why inkjet photos fade is it the ink exposure to air, if
so then can a laminated photo stop the fading?

Is it the chemical mix of ink on the photo paper, maybe some photo
papers are better than others. If you were to print on plain paper
then would the photo still fade?

Is it the exposure to strong light such as sunlight the causes a
inkjet photo to fade. Do photos kept in photo albums still fade?

Henry Wilhelm has a website at http://www.wilhelm-research.com/ that documents
a wide number of articles on light fade and other fade mechanisms. You can
download his 700+ page book at http://www.wilhelm-research.com/book_toc.html
(free) or study some of the numerous articles.

The short answer - paper, ink, light and air all matter.

Regards,
Bob Headrick, not speaking for my employer HP