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FEATURED WEB TUTORIAL: PRINTING
Printing and Archiving your Photos
Published by: Geoff Lawrence
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If we examine all the reasons there are for taking photographs, I think most people would agree that the number one reason would be as a memory to be kept. You may be quite alarmed to realize then, that our digital photos are more vulnerable than ever to the ravages of time.
A couple of things you may not know about longevity.
I've been printing my pictures on various inkjet printers for a few years now. When I first started I was very disappointed with how quickly the prints would begin to fade. When I first started making posters, some of which would be displayed in sunny windows, they would start to fade in about two weeks. Even the prints that were displayed indoors, well away from the sunlight, would fade in a few months. Longevity was, and I believe still is, a major problem for the manufacturers of inkjet printers. Although I must say that things have improved and prints do last longer than they used to.
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