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>>252607 My understanding is that archival is expected to last ~100 years or more as a whole. This includes fading, discoloration, falling apart, curling, and anything else. It also assumes appropriate handling, so if someone doesn't take care of your work, you aren't responsible for it. Appropriate handling means temp. and humidity control, protection from sunlight/UV, and standard safe handling like using gloves and keeping other crap off of it. Obviously, artists aren't around 100 years after someone buys their work, so you can't be held responsible if it doesn't quite make it. If it doesn't have a neutral pH, it's going to eventually have some issue, but it seems acidic is worse than alkaline.
You are probably safe with the materials you are using, unless she was using a 2nd mat as a blank between the image and the foam core, which I have seen done to avoid having to find and buy archival foam board. It's still best to use all archival materials, even if something isn't touching the print, so she probably did.
As far as the matting goes, the only things I ever tried to mat exactly were 8x10 prints, so it wasn't that hard. Everything I've matted since had edges I wanted to show (the edges of the film, and some prints that had physical edges from the printing process). I didn't really think about that until now, but I've never matted a digital print. I have personal issues with inkjet, and don't value anything I make with it, even though I don't have that issue with other people's inkjet prints.
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