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Re: [Digital BW] comin' up brown 2

2002-03-31 by John Brownlow

On 3/31/02 AZinn@... wrote:

>http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Gallery/8874/colorchange.html
>
>Bad news.  I have a MIS-FS print on EAM that has been sitting under a
>skylight with intermittent full sun for about three months. The ink has
>turned very brown. The good news is it hasn't faded, the paper still looks
>like new paper and I don't need to look for VanDyke brown inks now. 

???

I don't think these results are very surprising. EAM isn't an archival
paper and putting any image in intermittent full sun is likely to produce
at least tonal shifts. 

>I think any changes at all pretty much relegates a printing method to
>inexpensive reproduction status.  

really? what printing methods are you thinking of that it would be okay
to leave in intermittent full sun?

-- 
John Brownlow

http://www.pinkheadedbug.com

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