Longevity and Care of These Poster/Prints

The color-copy department of Reproductions, Inc. maintains that properly cared for, the poster/prints offered here will survive without deterioration for a minimum of 10 years. Thereafter, fading may slowly proceed.

"Properly cared for" means, first of all, kept from contact with water, excessive humidity, and densely polluted air. The ultra-violet rays in sunlight, spotlights, and otherwise intense, direct lighting will also slowly fade these color prints.

One road to added protection is to frame these prints using a mat and non-glare, UV-ray-blocking glass. Another is to store them in the clear-plastic archival presentation pockets in which they come. These 12" x 18" pockets for digital prints are manufactured and sold by PrintFile Archival Storage, which can be reached at www.printfile.com.

An authoritative discussion of digital-print longevity can be found at www.wilhelm-research.com, courtesy of Henry Wilhelm, a noted expert on "image permanence." A distilled, readable application of his findings as they apply to digitally printed posters and prints comes at www.dreamstone.com.au, which specializes in reproducing fantasy art.

Both of these sources confirm what Arizona Lithographers, my local producer of Giclée art prints, maintains: The Giclée inkjet process, on paper ranging from ordinary archival paper to actual water-color and even canvas-style papers, yields the most color-correct, long-lived digital prints available today. Well cared for, Giclée prints can survive without fading or deterioration for more than a 100 years.