And the range of media types has put an end to the idea that inkjet could never look or feel like photographs. That left only the longevity of the prints to conquer. Now, there has been a giant stride in that area with the new inks and media. That little black room with the smelly chemicals is starting to look increasingly redundant. This is because they use pigments instead of dyes.
Pigments are insoluble, and so has bigger particles than dyes, which are soluble.
This means their lightfastness is much better. But an inkjet printer has fantastically small noozles, and so has to use dyes instead of pigments. And it has taken years longer to bring dyes up to the lightfastness needed without sacrificing color intensity. But this has apparently happened now. Stobblehouse Everybody loves an underdog, but puppies grow Guest writer Carmel Glover on Apple and the Woodford Festival.