On 03/03/2020 22:52, David Paste wrote:
On Tuesday, 3 March 2020 09:00:54 UTC, Tim Lamb wrote:

None. Sorry. I have had a series of Epson inkjets because my wife likes
to have photos printed!
The photo series have always suffered from expensive ink and regular jet
cleaning.

So long as you are not in a hurry Fuji crystal archive photo prints will
outlast anything an inkjet can produce. Displays I did in 2006 are still
going strong on the Fuji prints. Inkjet images as part of the display
from the same period have now been replaced three times due to fading.

Reds and yellows fail first since absorbing energetic blue photons is a
big hit. Eventually you end up with a pale ghost cyanotype image.

My Canon printer made a big thing about how light stable their dyes were
back in the day. They were sort of right on their high end media - a
wedding print I did lasted 10 years on a sunny windowledge indoors. But
posters printed on ordinary paper and posted outdoors under plexiglass
have visible fading after only a month.

Laser toner doesn't fade or run when water gets into the noticeboard.

I've had Epson in the past, and very good they have been, too. But they
were the older ones so the inks have faded now on all the prints I did
with them. And they clogged like buggers. I've heard the Canon ones are
much better at not clogging.

The newer inks are supposed to be much more fade resistant, too.

Only pigment inks are even close to fade resistant. The ones that put a
base coat clear UV layer on top being about the best. Compared to a
colour laser none of the inkjet printers come close for light stability.

https://sdgmag.com/features/think-in...oor-durability

A good laser isn't quite photoreal but it is good enough for most
practical purposes as you can always get proper photo prints elsewhere.

My Canon A3 colour inkjet printer survives OK on pretty much monthly
usage without undue problems from the ink drying out.

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Regards,
Martin Brown