How long do C prints last?
They state Colour C Type prints stored in total darkness in ideal atmospheric conditions can last over 200 years before noticeable fade occurs but this is not a typical situation for print usage. In a photo album Colour C Type print life should exceed 100 years.
Are C prints archival?
A digital C-type or chromogenic print is a traditional picture or photographic print that has been made from a digital file rather than a negative. This type of print combines pigment-based inks with high-quality archival-type paper that results in an inkjet print of, particularly high quality.
What is the difference between giclee and C type?
Digital C-type printing is where a printing machine exposes light-sensitive photographic paper using a digitally controlled light source. This produces a true photographic print from a digital file. Giclée is ink-jet printing, a dry process whereby ink is sprayed directly onto a paper in a series of dots.
Do inkjet prints fade?
Fortunately, ink jet colorants (dye and pigment) are very stable and typically can last 100+ years at room temperature, so dark fade is usually not a limiting permanence factor for ink jet photo prints as long as high-quality paper is used.
What does C print stand for?
Chromogenic color prints
The term C print stands for Chromogenic color prints. These are full-color photographic prints made using traditional chemicals and processes. For Digital C prints, the material is exposed using lasers or LED lights.
What is the difference between a wet and a dry print?
It is a wet printing of the stamp. Dry printing eliminates the slight fuzziness from the design. The images are sharper, and because the ink does not sink into dampened paper, the ink is raised to the point that you can actually feel the texture.
Is Giclee the best?
A giclee print comes with the highest resolution and a full-color spectrum so that the original piece of art is matched as closely as possible. Printed on archival paper: A giclee’s print is known for its superior durability when compared to other art prints.
What is chromira print?
Chromira prints, “REAL Photographic C prints” (Chromogenic) are conventional wet process Chromogenic prints exposed with light then developed with chemicals. The prints are completely continuous tone no dots at all. Chromira prints are much more durable and scratch resistant than InkJet prints.
What are pigment prints?
Pigment prints (often erroneously referred to as Giclee prints) are unique in that the pigment ink (minuscule colored particles suspended in a neutral carrier liquid) are laid down onto paper by a digital printer.
What’s the difference between a C print and an inkjet print?
Digital C-prints have a completely different look and feel because they are true continuous tone (con tone) prints, unlike inkjet prints which are halftone prints. Proponents of C-prints often tout what they view as the superiority of a con tone print, even going so far as to state they are the only ‘true’ photograph.
What’s the difference between inkjet and chromogenic printing?
Obviously chromogenic printing is a totally different process than inkjet printing. Digital C-prints have a completely different look and feel because they are true continuous tone (con tone) prints, unlike inkjet prints which are halftone prints.
What kind of paper is a C print made of?
In simple terms, a chromogenic print or C-print is a photo lab print produced on light-sensitive color paper then processed in wet chemistry. Although traditionally created from color negatives, most of today’s chromogenic prints are produced from digital image files. The latter are known as digital C- prints.
What makes a digital print a C print?
In essence, a digital C-print is the same as a conventional photographic print, in that sensitized paper is exposed to light and then chemically processed. Thus the term photo “lab” print, as wet chemistry is used.