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On Tue, 24 May 2005, John Foust wrote:

>  From this perspective, ink jet looks as long-lasting as any
> water-soluble dipped-pen ink that's survived for a few hundred years
> depending on conditions. Are archival ink-jet photo papers more
> resin-coated?

I am pretty sure you can now get archival ink carthridges for inkjet
printers.  Be prepared to pay even more than you normally do for these.

Yep, here's some:

http://www.box-shift.co.uk/cgi-bin/digitalink.asp?r=1

> Are dye-sublimation printers (see
> http://science.howstuffworks.com/question583.htm ) a good shot for
> printing technologies that might be good for some crazy scheme like
> Paperbytes that'll store digital data on paper?

I doubt the concept, but I am curious how dye sublimation holds out vs.
laser toner, which does outgas and tends to stick adjacent pages together
over time.

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