Re: Plaque alternative

[Erik Olson <erik@thekrib.com>]

On Wed, 1 Nov 2000, James Purchase wrote:

> I have just bought a new printer - a HP Deskjet 952c and I've been playing
> with printing out photographs using HP photo paper.

> What I'm thinking is that for the Best of Show and People's Choice awards,
> rather than just a black ink on metal product that we have no control over
> text placement (Plaquemaker.com), I could easily do up a layout using MS
> Publisher and dropping in a photograph of the winner's aquascape and then
> printing it out here and having it mounted on a plaque.
> 
> This would give me total control over how this would look and and should
> cost no more money. Other points would be the ability to do it in full color
> and to actually have the person's aquascape as part of the actual award.
> 
> Any thoughts?

What are the archival properties of the ink (and paper)?  Will this fade
in a few years?

  - Erik

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Erik Olson
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