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About IPI’s Water Emergency Response for Fine Art Inkjet Projects

... preparedness and response found on this website. In 2018, IPI received a third IMLS grant to finalize our investigations by ...

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Thermal Equilibration

DEFINITION: Thermal Equilibration is the process of an object to adjust to the ambient temperature of the environment. An object reaches thermal equilibrium with its environment when the whole object -from its ...

Newsletter Archive - lmppph - 08/17/2010 - 12:36 - 0 comments

The Who, Why, When and How of Moisture Equilibration

DEFINITION: Moisture Equilibration is the process of hygroscopic materials to reach equilibrium with the ambient relative humidity of the air by absorbing or desorbing moisture. An object reaches moisture equil ...

Newsletter Archive - lmppph - 08/17/2010 - 12:30 - 0 comments

Newsletter Archive

Below are links to the DP3 Project's past newsletter issues. The DP3 newsletter debuted in March 2009 and continues to come out quarterly. If you wish to recieve the newsletter as it comes out, you can sign up by filling out the form on the left. ...

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Storage Recommendations

A variety of harmful forces can affect collection objects in storage resulting in multiple forms of damage. For digital prints, the primary drivers of deterioration in storage are heat, moisture, and air pollutants, though each print type has its own un ...

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Winter Dryness and Its Effects on Collections

Many of us are aware that seasonal changes affect the wellbeing of our collections. Changes in humidity can harm many different types of materials within our collections. So how does dryness really affect collections? Dryness is one of the main c ...

Newsletter Archive - lmppph - 08/17/2010 - 10:29 - 0 comments

Cracking

Manifests as: cracks to surface layers of the print Primarily caused by: excessively dry environment, light, or pollution Cracking is the result of surface layers of a print becoming brittle and is usually exacerbated with any physical flexin ...

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Analog Prints Aren’t Analog Anymore

These days, we tend to think of printed collection objects as falling into either the analog or the digital, the old or the new. To most collection caretakers the analog objects feel familiar and predictable, while digital hardcopy seems to have an aura ...

Newsletter Archive - lmppph - 04/14/2015 - 08:01 - 0 comments

He said, She said: Discrepancies in T and RH Readings

Anyone involved in managing the environmental conditions of a library, archive or museum has certainly encountered this dilemma: "These two monitoring devices are not showing me the same values. Which device is right!?" Discrepancies in te ...

Newsletter Archive - lmppph - 08/17/2010 - 12:59 - 0 comments

Completion of IMLS Funded Project: Pollution Damage Mitigation for Inkjet Printed Materials in Museum Collections

IPI received funding from the Institute of Museum and Library Services for a three-year, major research and development project aimed at creating effective strategies to mitigate the damage to modern, inkjet-printed materials caused by airborne pollutan ...

Newsletter Archive - lmppph - 01/06/2015 - 13:48 - 0 comments