Color Photo
Can the longevity of inkjet color photo prints be improved by spaying a sealer coat on them?
I have noticed inkjet photo prints fad rather quickly, especially if exposed to bright sunlight. I am looking for a way to prevent the fading, or slow it.
Yes. However, choose wisely. In some sprays, the ‘vehicle’ that carries the sealer, the part that evaporates away quickly, can also dissolve some inks making them blend or run.
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There are 2 kinds of ink on the market, basically.. You have dye inks which are like food coloring and found in a lot of home printers, then their are ‘inks’ with actual pigment, like paint, in them.
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Some printers can take both kinds. By swapping out the cartridges you can go to the more expensive pigment inks over the dye inks. In these cases the manufacture will have said so and made the printer able to do so. If you just do it your self, you will more than likely ruin the heads of your printer and need them replaced.
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You will also have to flush your ink lines IF you have them, between going back and forth. Some printers have the print heads built into the ink cartridge and these kind are the easiest to swap out.
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The fade is because the print is made with nothing more than “color dye” on the photographic ink jet paper. Try better paper. Papers have a capture layer over the real paper that makes up the print. This layer is actually a special clay and has properties to grab the ink, absorb it, hold it as well as encapsulate it so the color is as protected as it can be. It also stops the ink from spreading and soaking out and making the prints very un-sharp and blending colors and the fine lines between them.
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In the pigmented inks, called Ultra Chrome by Epson, they have a life projected of up to 100 years when viewed and stored as a real photographic print would be. No direct sun light. The sun’s UV’s rays and harsh light can erode almost anything with time. Just come to Arizona and I will show you old glass being eroded by the sun. Desert rocks with a sun baked patina and cars finishes looking very bad.
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Krylon spray paints has a item called – Workable fixitif – and UV protection.
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http://www.krylon.com/products/workable_fixatif/
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As well as many other artist clear coats -
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http://www.krylon.com/products/categories/artist_clear_coatings/
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And we have found most of these to give us the coatings and protections needed in almost any of but the worse conditions. Like fire..! LOL, even water..! And ink-jet prints HATE water.
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Experiment, find yours and stick with it. Changing inks, if you can, will help too.
Epson Perfection V700 Photo Color Scanner
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