Quothe William Donzelli, from writings of Sat, May 15, 2004 at
08:07:51PM -0400:
> Archival inks are generally made with old formulas using mineral based
> pigments (like the carbon black you mentioned), rather than synthetic
> dyes. You can now get archival color ink cartridges for inkjets, but the
> price is pretty steep (ask your favorite artist about how much a good tube
> of a red costs - no wonder they are starving!).
Does any type of archival-quality toner exist? After a few years, the
pages from some laser printouts to stick together and some of the
toner comes off onto the pages opposite, so this sort of defeats
using acid-free paper.
One related thought... seeing that toner is available in a magnetic
formulation, if a type of that exists that doesn't cause pages to
stick together, then, perhaps data, encoded in some way, could be
printed out on acid-free paper and retrieved at some later point in
time by using a something like an over-sized card-reader or a tape
head of some sort that can, after several passes, scan an entire page.
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