How long can color-jet photos be kept?

Can a photo printer digitally print photos of 200 years?

2005-07-0 1 10: 10

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Open the photo album at home. Did the photos taken with traditional cameras turn yellow and fade many years ago? The past time is fixed in a photo, and it is really distressing if this happens.

Photos are often murdered by environmental factors such as temperature, humidity, ozone and light. Unconsciously, the original glamorous photos will become old and dim. However, the photo printer products recently launched by several printer manufacturers seem to give consumers a chance. Photo printing can not only be comparable to the silver salt printing effect of professional printing shops, but also the preservation life of photos can be as long as 100 or even 200 years.

Digital printing technology is superior to traditional printing.

If your photo printer can output photos with better quality than traditional printing, and the photos can be saved for more than 100 years, will you go out to print photos? The above two points have been realized, and the biggest problem before consumers may only be the price. Technically, digital printing has been completely comparable to traditional printing. On this basis, it provides a basis for users to output photos at home. For example, the photos printed by HP printing system are comparable to traditional photos in appearance and feel. Even if the photos are not stored in the photo album, but displayed under the glass, their anti-fading performance is better than that of silver halide photos or dye sublimation photos processed in the laboratory. Although its products are mainly positioned in the high-end professional photographer market, they are of epoch-making significance to the photo printing market. It is understood that HP's nine patented inks can not only provide extraordinary details of printed images, but also enrich the contrast of color shadows, broaden the darkness of each color, and form a truly neutral and soft gray-black color, thus producing professional-grade photos that meet the quality requirements of photo exhibitions.

Digital photos can be kept for 200 years?

Digital photo output technology has been superior to traditional printing, and all major printers have a positive attitude. Zhang Feng, manager of sales promotion department of Epson TP Company, said that photo printing technology has made a qualitative leap since 2000, and the development of technology has kept digital photos for as long as 100 years. It can be said that the digital photo printing technology is very mature at present. As long as a photo printer with 6 or 8 colors can output photos comparable to traditional printing. Zhang Feng also introduced that there are two kinds of inkjet printers on the market at present, one is water-soluble dye-based ink (referred to as dye ink) and the other is water-insoluble pigment-based ink (referred to as pigment ink). Although the photos popped up by the former are very expressive in color, their fatal weakness is poor preservation, while the photos popped up by the latter are slightly inferior to the former in some expressive aspects, but they have good preservation characteristics.

Then, if the characteristics of the two pigments can be combined, can they be preserved for a long time? Lexmark's recently introduced ink constant color formula combines the above two technologies. With high-quality photo printing paper, the photo preservation time is claimed to be as long as 200 years.

But preserving for 200 years is only a theoretical value, because manufacturers or third parties only come to such a conclusion through simulation tests, but it is no problem to preserve for decades.