Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Scott McLoughlin
<scott@a...> wrote:
> Why do they add OBA's in the first place, then? 

Because they always did in silver paper. It's not as big a point as
it's being made out. "Archival" was never much of an issue until Zone
VI found it could be used for marketing purposes. 



I don't understand
> why someone doesn't make an acid/lignin/OBA free alpha cellulose
> paper that's cheaper than cotton papers.
> 
> One would think there would be a decent market.

There's no reason to make cheap paper. Why seek a cheap market?


> 
> Scott