Yet another fading test of dye inks - the last one (?)

[The Hat]

will report the findings here

Great.. I’m all ears..

 

[Artur5]

Ink stained Fingers, the way I see it, when you say "last test ?" you really mean the last .. before the next.

 

[The Hat]

you really mean the last .. before the next.

Never say never again..

 

[Ink stained Fingers]

I'm contemplating various options

- isn't there a 'very last' test after a 'last' test ?
- or I just stop the current test
- or I just don't tell you the results of this newest test
- or I delete the last test and make the newest test the last one
- or I ask the German Industrial Standards Institute if a very last test is possible after a last test
- or I change the forum and publish there the first fading test

I'm getting surprised how difficult and complex it can get with such fading tests

 

[The Hat]

That’s the problem with ink fade tests, once you’ve completed them, you soon realise there was a another way of doing it, these tests can be never ending..

My black fade test results are only onto the second month and are already devastating, and I don’t know if waiting the full 6 months will show the results any better, my test is more for total destruction, rather than just fading.. I call it the BBQ test..

Is there a standard way of preforming these tests that suites everyone.. ?
P.S. maybe I should have included a Laser test sheet too. ?

 

[Ink stained Fingers]

I call it the BBQ test..

Is there a standard way of preforming these tests that suites everyone.. ?

There is not a standard BBQ recipe, there are the test methods by Wilhlem Research or Aardenburg, and the ICC consortium is apparently trying to establish some test rules since a long time.