A Consumer Guide to Understanding Permanence Testing

December 2009 from the Image Permanence Institute

A Consumer Guide to Understanding Permanence Testing

The publication is a lay-person’s guide on the issues related to predicting photographic print permanence. It applies to both traditional and digitally printed images. The problem to date has been a lack of accurate and coherent information on the subject by independent experts. Most information has been published either by the material manufacturers themselves or by the popular press in a sometimes over-simplified manner. The intended audience for this guide is the home imaging consumer, though others concerned with the care of photographic prints—retailers, wholesalers, pro-labs, and advanced amateurs or “pro-sumers”—will also benefit.

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