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Re: Ink Jet ink / printing photographs



>
> Other options include having your images output by a service bureau on a
> digital printer that uses conventional photographic paper such as the Fuji
> system, or on a dye sub printer.

We finally broke down and bought a thermal image printer, which is
a Kodak system that uses photographic paper (Kodak 3670 PS
Professional Thermal Image Printer, which I wrote so many memos
about that the name will be with me forever).  So far (almost a year)
it's worked very well, we've run hundreds of prints through it, and
none of them has faded in the least.  I put a test one in a window
facing south and it hasn't shown any fading.  Admittedly the windows
are UV filtered, but the paper I used to write the note saying "Please
don't remove" has faded almost to invisibility, so somethin's getting
through.

The other advantage to this thing has been for outreach; now we
can scan and print any photo in our collection and put it on display,
and not worry about security, light, etc.  And with editing, you can
fix or repair daily any damaged photo.  One example, which, hmmm,
I should post on our site: a photo from a ranch collection that had
been rudely put asunder and put back together with scotch tape,
and to add further insult had at some time in the past been circled
extensively by a kid with a pencil.  Using Photoshop we (or one of
my staff, who's under 25 and therefore Knows All About Computers)
cleaned the thing up to where it's faithful to the original.

So far I've resisted the urge to put my head on AH-nold's body and
put it on my university ID.  But seriously, the printer has been well
worth the too-expensive price (over six grand, gulp!)




Roy Webb, C.A.
Multimedia Archivist
Special Collections
J. Willard Marriott Library
295 South 1500 East
University of Utah
Salt Lake City, Utah   84112
(801) 585-3073  //  fax (801) 585-3976
rwebb@library.utah.edu

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