I think you will find a great deal on this subject if you search the archives. I've also heard it can be made to disappear one way or another. Tyler --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "crislomcam" <crislom@e...> 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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Re: Toxic yellow photorag!
2004-10-23 by Tyler Boley
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