Digital BW, The Print

And Concorde Rag sold by inkjetart.com - 100% Cotton and Acid free, though I don't know about optical brighteners but I doubt it considering its color.

Maris

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "SKID Photography" <skid@bway.net>
To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, November 12, 2001 9:57 PM
Subject: Re: [Digital BW] Epson papers and ACID


| mh@... wrote:
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| > As far as I have been told by many people,  ALL epson papers have acid except for the
| > Fine Art Smooth (and rough) made by Crane.
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| The above is correct. The reason that they are changing the name of Epson Archival Matte paper is that there
| were legal ramifications to using the name 'archival'....and that paper is not.
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| The only papers that can be considered stable over the long run are all rag (not wood pulp) and without
| optical brighteners.  That leaves Museo, the aforementioned SFA (made by Crane for Epson) and one other paper
| made by Hawk Mountain (sorry, I'm not sure which one).
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| Finally, I think it is accepted that the 200 year claim of permanence by Epson is more market and wishful
| thinking than reality.
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| Harvey Ferdschneider
| partner, SKID Photography, NYC
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| > Epson watercolor will probably be one of the first to go bad down the line (in years) and
| > should not be used for any prints that you are selling.
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| > -mikeH
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| > --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "Paul Roark" <paul.roark@v...> wrote:
| > > >... heat mounted Piezo or MIS work ...
| > >
| > > >>but I have a Generations color on Epson
| > > >>Photo Quality Ink Jet paper that was dry mounted.
| > >
| > > >...That paper is really acidic, I think.
| > >
| > > No, I think it is acid free -- Once again showing the lack of correlation if
| > > not reverse correlation between being "acid free" and having good image
| > > permanence.  I'll bet the bottom line is that cheap buffering that fools the
| > > pens just doesn't get at the real problem.
| > >
| > > Paul
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