"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote:
In article ,
Ian Stirling wrote:
Many thanks for responses - I'm going to give the "print out on PC"
and clear heat shrink sleeving a go.

Longevity of various PC printing methods varies widely.

Certainly ink jet colours change quite quickly even when laminated. Is
laser any better?

But black print should say legible for quite a long time?

Black from inkjets can degrade, especially older models.

The longest would probably be something like dot-matrix with carbon
black ink, on acid free paper.

For laser, I don't really know.
It's going to be better than at least some inkjets, and if kept out
of the light should be pretty durable.
I'd worry about ink bleeding, even when laminated on inkjets over
long periods (20 years plus).
If laminated laser should be at least legible for a century.