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Re: [Digital BW] Toxic yellow photorag!

2004-10-23 by Mark Savoia

I have heard of this happening when prints are stored between plain old 
corrugated cardboard. Are you sure if fades away after awhile?
Mark

On Oct 23, 2004, at 6:13 PM, crislomcam wrote:

>
>  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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