Digital BW, The Print

That is very preceptive Paul. We tend to put them all in one category
when, fact is, we don't know what is in them.

As to Kodak, they have no credibility with me. I discussed this issue
with the reps as recently as 5 years ago. They never cared about the
long term. I have a friend who is a fairly well known photographer in
the NY gallery scene. He still does type c prints that have text
written under them so he has a lot of white paper showing inside the
framed, matted pieces. Hell all the prints that I've seen that are
even a few years old have yellowed in those whites. You would have
thought 30 years would have been enought time for Kodak to figure out
the issues.

With Premium Luster though, we probably don't know, could be better,
I'm not counting on it. I won't tell my clients this stuff will last
as long as rag, I just don't believe it.

As to airborne chemicals, that is when the spraying is essential, but
we need a non-toxic substitute for what we have now.

I haven't heard anything that would lead me to belive that the
non-acid coatings for piezzo inkjet output are suspect that much,
although Wilhelm's ratings for non-coated rag were higher years ago.
What is in these coatings, starch, gelatin, or a combination of the two. 

By the way, I really like this new Hahnemuhle Museum Etching  paper.
No oba content and it is plenty white enought for me.

John