Digital BW, The Print

>Sure it is legitimate to ask
> questions about yellowing or even to speculate about it. 

Whew, thought I was on AOL for a minute! But I wasn't referring just
to Polar Matte, not to it's most recent iteration, and not just to
yellowing. And I don't have the slightest notion that PM yellows. I've
only seen that in EEM. 

I do assume that since PM is blue-white, it will become warmer with
time, like other blue-whites in our world. That's not like EEM's
yellowing. 

But it seemed to me
> that your implication was that Red River's Polar Matte  was just too
good to
> me true and it must be highly suspect like EEM. 

Paper distributors commonly say or hint that ultra-brights will likely
lose their whiteness. 


EEM was a paper that was
> well known to have yellowed in more than one version and over more
than a
> year or two.

I posted that a long time ago and was attacked for it.
 
>I am not angry, but rather disturbed....It gets a little tiresome
>reading the rants about this and that without some balance of thought.

Polar seems the ultimate whitened paper. I raised questions about
whitened coatings. You flipped out. Too much coffee.

 it also had an
> implication that Polar matte was going to yellow 

That Polar looks like EEM on steroids is obvious: because it's so
heavily whitened, I wonder what that means in the future...same
question with all whitened papers. I didn't suggest that it yellows.

> 
> As to why papers yellow? I can only guess

Chill. We know why EEM yellows. My question had to do with whiteners. 

> 
If I have time this week, which I doubt, I'll go over to Red River
> and see this new paper. I might even ask a question or two : ) 

Don't tire them out :-)  

John


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