Inkjet Photo Print Longevity Lacking

Yet another Anonymous Coward writes to tell us about a piece up at the NYTimes on the (lack of) longevity of photos printed on inkjet printers. As the article's title says, somewhat alarmingly, "It isn't that images fade, it's that they can vanish." The problem is actually more nuanced than this; it's that no-one has a reliable and standardized way of testing inkjet prints for longevity. From the article: "The life of color inkjet prints has also been hindered by the origins of the technology, which was mainly intended for printing things like pie charts, said Nils Miller, a scientist at Hewlett-Packard. 'The initial emphasis was, how do we get bright colors on plain paper," Dr. Miller said. "Permanence was not really on the radar screen yet.'"

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Re:What I don't understand...

[d3ac0n]

I know that Kodak has made Injet and Dye-Sublimation photo printers under the "Polaroid" nameplate ( http://shopping.yahoo.com/p:Polaroid%20P-500%20Ink jet%20Printer:1990740150) but they aren't true, traditional Polaroid-style photos. Was there another printer type and I just missed it?

Perhaps your Google-fu is greater than mine, but I can't find anything about an actual true-Polaroid printer. Anyone got a link?