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Your subscription to Aardenburg Imaging & Archives provides membership in our digital print research program. With direct participation by our members, we conduct both laboratory and real-world image permanence studies of modern digital printing processes used in photography and fine art printing. Photographers, artists, printmakers, collectors, dealers, curators, and conservators who want unbiased and comprehensive information on print permanence are members of AaI&A.
Our modestly-priced annual subscription fee is how we fund this research. AaI&A doesn't pursue website advertising revenue models, nor does AaI&A sell or license test results to manufacturers for their own marketing purposes. Manufacturers and professional organizations can support the research and the digital printmaking community by becoming group sponsors of AaI&A. Group sponsorship enables companies and organizations to offer their customers discounted subscription rates or free membership in the AaI&A Digital Print Research Program. All AaI&A members, whether they have been sponsored or have joined individually, get to see all the test results, to submit samples, and thus to have a say in what materials and processes get tested. AaI&A's group sponsors embrace these fair and open testing practices.
We are working on more new samples, and to accommodate them in test without stopping any samples currently in test, we are also adding additional new light fade test units to boost our capacity. AaI&A's database is growing, and with this growth comes an ever increasing need for better search and sort capability. Our programming team is putting the finishing touches on some great new features to help you navigate AaI&A's collection of test results. We expect to have these new tools operational in about two weeks. You're going to like it!
