Digital BW, The Print

While we're on the subject of papers, has anyone taken the time to do a fade 
test of the Hawk Mountain paper line?   And, in particular, their Condor BW, 
Merlin and Nighthawk papers?   The first two papers have OBAs in the coatings, 
but the owner of the company says that the issue is not OBAs per se, but their 
interaction with the media applied to them, and that OBA fading is much more 
of an issue with dye-based inks than with pigments such as the UC inkset.   
She also said that she has UC prints hanging unprotected in her shop that are 
4-5 years old on these papers, and that they show no sign of yellowing or 
fading.

Does anyone have any experiences or observations to share on these papers?

Sanders McNew
www.mcnew.net


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