Digital BW, The Print

Hello Everyone, 

I'm seriously thinking of switching from an OBA paper (I currently use EVFA) to a non-OBA 
paper. The consensus seems to be these papers will exhibit some fade (or yellowing) over 
time.

Does anyone have experience using Bradford Rag Natural White paper? It's sold at the 
Inkjet Mall site. The price is good, almost to good to be true, which is raising a little red 
flag in my head.

Thanks, Steve

> Are there any less expensive alpha-cellulose papers without OBE's?
> The Kayenta and Premier Premium Matte are pretty brilliantly white
> (with the latter having a slight magenta cast, btw).

the one thing I have found with papers with OBA's is purely anecdotal but
seems more than coincidental.

I find that in certain lighting conditions, greyscale prints made with
either UC inks and QTR or various of the MIS Quad inks (I've used many
different versions) show a rather nasty metamerism to a slight magenta tint.

This is usually in a mix of some kind of tungsten and daylight. And it isn't
a very big shift in colour (in fact it's quite subtle), but it's enough -
especially in prints with large areas of smooth midtones - to give an
unpleasant effect in those lighting conditions.

What I have noticed is that I don't get this same shift (or, in some cases
the shift is barely noticeable) in papers with no OBAs.

That said, like Paul, I also find most of the papers with OBA's to be
unpleasantly stark for greyscale printing and now tend to prefer those with
no OBA's


tim a