Digital BW, The Print

Thanks John and Diana.

VFA is such a nice paper.  So since VFA has OBA's this means that it will "yellow" in 
time?  Even if it's under glass?  That's disappointing.

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Diana York" <diana@h...> 
wrote:
> Best way to be sure is buy a black lite and illuminate the papers with it in a 
darkened room. Sorry, while I do have a
> blacklite, I don't have those Epson papers here to test for you. Papers with OBA's 
will fluoresce, those without OBAs
> will be optically "dead". When you have a paper with OBAs next to a paper without 
OBA's, the difference is very
> noticeable. Some papers will show occasional flacks of fluorescence, because rag 
papers are often produced from textile
> cuttings which may have had OBA's added during the textile production process.
> Currently all our base papers are OBA free, but the coatings on Osprey, Merlin, 
Condor, Condor BriteWhite and Kestrel
> BriteWhite have OBAs added, while our Nighthawk paper is entirely OBA free. We are 
producing a new line of coatings
> (Osprey Natural, Condor Natural, and Kestrel Natural) which will be OBA free - plan 
to debut at PMA in February.
> 
> Diana York mailto:diana@h...
> PMA Las Vegas Feb12-15, 2004  Booth K209
> Hawk Mountain Papers toll free 888-807-2248
> http://www.hawkmtnartpapers.com
> 100% Cotton Fine Art Digital Print and Photo Papers
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "luisvcool" <lvictoria@t...>
> To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2004 5:49 PM
> Subject: [Digital BW] Epson fine art papers with OBA's???
> 
> 
> Hi.
> 
> I read Epson's PDF files that mention the specifications for Velvet Fine Art, 
Watercolor,
> and Enhanced Matte papers and I couldn't determine if the papers have optical
> brightening agents (OBA's).  Well, do they?
> 
> Thank you.