AaI&A conducts comprehensive light fastness studies on modern digital print media. Our Digital Print Research Program is a unique collaboration with the photography and printmaking community. All donations to this website are applied directly to the AaI&A Printmakers' Testing Fund.

The Printmakers' Testing Fund enables AaI&A staff to conduct light fastness tests at no charge to artists all over the world who voluntarily submit media samples for testing. Please donate to the fund today in order to help us continue this important print permanence research. Calendar year funding for the program and sample testing status is updated regularly. This information is listed below:

AaI&A uses the most advanced light fade testing protocol in the industry. We also make this testing expertise available on a reasonable fee-for-service basis to manufacturers. Manufacturers can request their tests remain confidential, or they can add the results to the AaI&A light fade database at any time during the testing period. Please contact us for more information.

Due to some old programming code related to prior years when AaI&A was a subscription website, the membership count was in error. The error has been corrected. We currently have 705 active memberships in our digital print research program.

AaI&A Logo for Members 2012

AaI_Logo_for_Members 2012.zip
Posted: 2012-01-01  Revision: 2012-01-01  (415 Kb)

Some members have asked if they can display an AaI&A logo and a link to AaI&A on their websites. Yes, and thank you! Download and unzip this file. It unzips to a folder with small, medium, and large images of the 2012 AaI&A membership logo. The large one is useful for printing or resizing to suit.