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Re: The Optical Brightener FREE Dilemma...is starting to make sense...

2005-08-10 by dfaprinting

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "ghoffphotoart" 
<ghoffphotoart@y...> wrote:
> 
> creates a problem here --  when you start with a bright white base 
vs. 
> a natural white base, as we know, you must have a different 
profile.  
> This makes complete sense that in the "right lighting", your image 
> created on an OBA-using paper will color shift as the base color 
> shifts.  Additionally, in the same situation, an image printed on 
OBA-
> free paper will look accurate, and a OBA-using paper will not.  
> 
> I guess the bottom line is that OBA-using papers you have color-
shift 
> risk, and OBA free papers you do not.  

When making the profile you need to compensate for the brightener as 
much as possble. You do this either in the hardware or the software.

>  
> (3) if so many people care about OBA-FREE products, and are willing 
to 
> use "off white" papers, why is there not an abundance of "off 
white" 
> OBA free Canvas???  
> 


A few weeks ago, Adam from Breathingcolor.com sent me a message that 
they now have a canvas that is OBA free. I haven't had the chance to 
call him and talk about it yet, so no more details than that.

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