new Canon printers
new Canon printers
- Subject: new Canon printers
- From: Richard Kenward <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 7 May 2003 01:24:23 +0100
In a message dated 5/6/03 6:59:14 AM, email@hidden writes:
Same ink/paper combination under constant daylight/sunlight alongside a
Kodak RA4 print. Prints taped to card and positioned 2" from single
glass west facing window.
Shade testing; thats a new idea... <G> There's really no doubt that the
Canon
inks are not up to the UV levels in direct sunlight, as even a UK shade
test
proves.
C. David Tobie
Now, now CD ! Over here our west facing test window gets glancing sun
by late morning, and full sun for the remainder of the day, when there
is sun of course! Short of having a rotating test site I don't think
we could really do much better. Anyhow it's the comparison that is
important here as I hope you would agree.
I consider the Kodak RA4 paper to be the minimum standard for supply of
display prints to clients. As a matter of interest, a test we carried
out some time ago which started at the beginning of a hot UK summer, the
Kodak sample was showing signs of fading at the end of 4 weeks, the
Ilfochrome (Cibachrome) was looking poor after about 24 weeks and the
emulsion was peeling off the support soon after, whereas the Fuji print
went on for about 72 weeks before it was not good enough to display.
The Canon does not cut it in my book for brightly lit display purposes
as it fails to come up to the Kodak RA4 paper fade test, though for
'contract' proofing it is fine. The above crude but effective test is
what we subject all materials to before using them on client jobs.
Cheers
Richard
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Richard Kenward
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