IMPORTANT ! ! !
Are you printing family photographs on an inkjet printer with the
expectation that you can keep them for years? Read below but First, look at
these examples & comments, bottom of the page at:
http://www.rideau-info.com/genealogy/digital/project-2001.html
Barry
"Richard Eastman's comments ! ! ! A Word About Printers:
Most ink jet printers today do not create printouts with any kind of archival
life. It is fine to put colour ink jet printouts into your genealogy reports,
just don't expect the colours to last more than 10 years or so. This applies to
all inexpensive ink jet printers, even those called "photo printers".
As of this writing, Epson has just released the first consumer archival ink jet
printer (the 2000P) with a reported 200 year life to the colour photo printouts
(using Epson archival inks and paper). They are also reportedly working on a
technology to print with pigments, which has the potential to produce colour
photos with an extremely long archival life.
2002 Update: more printers are coming onto the market offering long photo
archival life. Epson is still in the lead offering a wide range of archival life
printers. Look for the terms archival inks or lightfast inks. Note that
"archival" or "acid free" paper has very little to do with the
longetivity of
prints (all good photo papers are acid free) - it is the archival quality of the
ink that is used. However best colour/longetivity results are normally achieved
when using an archival/lightfast ink printer with the types of paper the
manufacturer recommends
- Digital Cameras and Genealogy
Writing on the newsletter's Discussion Board, Ken Watson states, "I've had
several email queries about the specifics of how I go about copying old photos
using a digital camera. To help answer those questions, I've updated my digital
camera and genealogy website with a page that details my personal "workflow".
Just click on the link from the main page, or from the Making Digital Copies of
Old Photographs page."
Indeed, this is an exhaustive analysis of digital photography and old photograph
restoration. The topics covered include storing digital photographs, copying and
improving old family photographs, photographing old documents, labeling digital
photographs, capturing photographs, CD-ROM storage and archiving a cemetery with
digital photographs. My person favorite is Ken's section entitled "The Myth of
DPI."
You can see Ken's excellent work at:
http://www.rideau-info.com/genealogy/digital/ .
Richard Eastman's Comment: (His Genealogy NewsLetter avail Free!
By the way, are you printing family photographs on an inkjet printer with the
expectation that you can keep them for years? Take a look at the examples at the
bottom of the page at
http://www.rideau-info.com/genealogy/digital/project-2001.html. Don't destroy
the digital images!
What Do You Think? Comments and discussion are available on this newsletter's
Discussion Board at:
http://www.eogn.com/discussionboard
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