Digital BW, The Print

on 11/12/01 11:28 PM, SKID Photography wrote:

> The latest studies show that the buffering agents react very poorly with
> inkjet inks and should be avoided if
> one is looking for long term paper/print stability.  Just as one should avoid
> optical brighteners.

Harvey

Could you elaborate on what you know about optical brighteners being
detrimental to inkjet prints? As I understand it (which is not much) the OBs
fade and the paper will yellow, but is it anything more detrimental than
that? The papers which don't have OBs are already somewhat yellow, so I'm
not sure you'd any worse off with OBs down the road. The non OB paper would
always be warm while an OB paper would creep "white" to warm.

What I suspect has the greatest impact on longevity is the coatings of these
papers, but they gets little discussed. Anybody have any way to comprehend
their impact on our prints?

Just fishing for info.

Todd