Gus Harris said...

Increasingly, many "photographs" are digital and are therefore not
printed from a negative using traditional silver photographic
processing....but on a computer printer using "photographic paper" made
for those printers.  What is the comparison of longevity of the images
from the traditional process and the computer printed images?

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Gus

Why not think of the printed copy of the image to be a mere copy, with
the digital file being the 'master' record.

Just preserve the digital copy - which, I know, is easier said than
done, but it can be done. Convert to an "Openly specified" format (jpg
is open, I don't think that RAW is) and actively manage the digital
files (and remember, lots of copies keeps stuff safe).

If you need a printed copy in the future, just print off another one.

John Lovejoy
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