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Re: Toxic yellow photorag!

2004-10-23 by Tyler Boley

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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