Digital BW, The Print

Peter,

Drawers are often made of plastic or wood substitutes that contain 
formaldehyde and other oxidising agents in the adhesives used to stick them 
together. So, as with ozone, you could get oxidation of the inks.

How do museums store their prints after making and mounting them on archival 
materials? Do they have special archival drawer-units to store them in? 
Metal, for instance? I don't know. Would any archivists amongst us like to 
comment?

Bob Frost.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Peter Nelson" <pnweb@...>

I have one set of color prints on EEM here at work, on my cube wall,
under 24/7 fluorescent lights and 2 years after they were made they
look fine.  I have another set at home made from the paper OUT OF THE
SAME CARTON, that have been sitting in a drawer, which have taken on
a greenish cast.   God only knows why.