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**Savageduck[_3_]** · November 12th 15, 03:23 AM posted to rec.photo.digital,alt.photography

On 2015-11-12 03:11:34 +0000, said:

In a local office building, the walls are decorated with a typical corporate
art display. There's a set of prints, mostly landscapes, rather fuzzy,
unfocused, like impressionist paintings. The labels read "Archival pigment
ink photograph"

What does that mean?

It means somebody wanted you to know they didn't just produce the print
on any old consumer inkjet printer.

It also means you have asked the same question in two News Groups by
multi-posting when this would be an appropriate time to cross post to
both alt.photography and r.p.d..

I will add alt.photography to the Newsgroups, so the response below
will appear in both NGs via X-Post.

So for now here is a copy of my response at alt.photography:

It means the print was made on a professional grade printer using
Archival pigment inks on quality paper.
Many pro-level printers are matched with archival inks which are not
found on consumer printers. Epson UltraChrome K3 inks for example.
http://www.epson.com/cgi-bin/Store/Landing/UltraChromeK3.jsp

There is more, these are dated articles, but the information is still valid.
http://phototechmag.com/dye-ink-vs-pigment-ink/
http://www.macworld.com/article/1054216/inktype.html
https://tiptopgallery.wordpress.com/2012/03/13/what-is-an-archival-pigment-print/

Red

River Papers has a list of printers which are capable of using such
inks to produce Archive quality prints.
http://www.redrivercatalog.com/infocenter/tips/list-of-pigment-ink-inkjet-printers.html

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Regards,

Savageduck