archival inks for inkjet printers

[Alexander Krings]

Hello all,

I am trying to find out if archival inks exist for standard inkjet computer printers now on the market (e.g., Hewlett Packard, Compaq, etc.)?  In modernizing our herbarium, we would eventually like to generate specimen labels from our database and are exploring our options.  Hewlett-Packard claims their black inks are archival, but have any independent studies been published?

Thank you in advance for any help or guidance anyone could offer.

--Alexander
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Alexander Krings
Curator and Plant Taxonomist
Herbarium (NCSC), Department of Botany
Campus Box 7612
North Carolina State University
Raleigh, NC 27695-7612

alexander_krings at ncsu.edu
919.515.2700
919.515.3436 (fax)


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