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Anoni Moose
Michael Meissner said:In general there are a lot of people who complain that Canon's fade rapidly
(and some who don't notice a fade, particularly if they put it under glass).
One of the guys in dpreview.com's printing forum who lives in Hawaii, says his
Canon output sometimes fades within weeks.
Wilhelm has the Epson 2200 prints lasting 50 years on Epson's
appropriate glossy
paper. They have the Canon BCI-6 inks (same i9900 uses) at 38 years
on Canon's Paper Pro (actually, the older pre-improved version).
Info published on
pcworld's site somewhere i think (I've posted links to it in the
past).
I've a i9900 print of my wife glued to my terminal, about half inch
from
the CRT. It's out in the open and maybe 15~20 feet from a wall of
large
windows to the sunny outside (not directly lit). It's now about 3
months
with no visible fading.
Mike
P.S. - In the hot muggy heat one can have in Hawaii (my home state)
along
with intense sunshine, I'd imagine one could really stress a
print,
especially one not "protected". Add to it some nearby ozone
generating
things (like electronic air cleaners or laser printers) and
prints
are /really/ toast.