Quite a shocker.. I had a bunch of inkjet prints sitting in a pile on my desk, most printed on EEM but I had made one print on photorag 308. All these are prints I had made in the last couple of days. This morning I glanced over at the pile of prints and... there was one that had turned a bright garish yellow, almost chartreuse! It was such a bright yellow that I just couldn't believe my eyes.. all the others were fine, and it was the HPR print that had turned this outrageous color! The yellow is only on the coated side of the paper, the other side is unaffected. It happens that the HPR print was sitting on top of a newspaper, so I did a little experiment.. I took another sheet of HPR and set it on top of another piece of newsprint, and after just a few hours it's starting to change color too! Another bit of oddness is that the original print is losing it's yellowness now that it's no longer near the newspaper. Just to be clear about this, the HPR print was lying image side up on top of the newspaper. The coated side wasn't in contact with the newsprint.. so whatever reaction took place was not through direct contact with the coated side. Just thought I'd post this in case anyone else had photorag that suddenly turned bright yellow on them: it's because the paper is near newsprint, I just can't explain why!
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Toxic yellow photorag!
2004-10-23 by crislomcam
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