Yahoo Groups archive

Digital BW, The Print

Index last updated: 2026-04-28 22:56 UTC

Message

RE: [Digital BW] Interesting comment re UV filtering

2006-04-01 by Paul Roark

>...
> Ordinary glass will apparently filter approximately 40-45% of UV light.
>...

And that may understate the actual difference between indoor and outdoor
display in terms of fading.  My understanding is that glass is opaque to the
shorter UV wavelengths, and those are the most damaging.  Acrylic apparently
blocks even further up the wavelength scale (and is more colorless than at
least cheap glass).

Paul
www.PaulRoark.com

Attachments

Move to quarantaine

This moves the raw source file on disk only. The archive index is not changed automatically, so you still need to run a manual refresh afterward.