Digital BW, The Print

Take the print and expose it to direct sunlight for a few hours, the yellow should lesson if not completely disappear. It is a airborne or contact contamination. I think silver rag has been redesigned since then, it should happen at a lesser degree now.

Were the prints near corrugated cardboard or shipping tape?

Mark
http://www.stillrivereditions.com

On Aug 22, 2012, at 7:01 PM, "ClaytonJ" <cj@...> wrote:

> Hello All,
> 
> I've been mostly lurking for a long time, not much to say, just happily making prints.  However I just discovered something and wrote to Paul Roark about it and he asked me to post it here.
> 
> While doing some cleaning I found a stack of old work prints from approximately 6 years ago.  Some of them were printed on Museo Silver Rag using my R2400 and PK ink.  I bought that printer in August 2005, and I remember that SR became available some time after that and I began experimenting with the paper.  So that roughly dates these prints to early 2006-ish or so (after some experimenting with SR and several other PK papers I went back to MK and matte papers).
> 
> There are 5 SR prints, small prints with about 1/2" to 3/4" borders.  They were in the middle of about a 5 inch stack of prints on a variety of matte papers.  All five have yellowed borders.  The yellowing extends inward from all four edges from 1/8 to 1/4 inch and feathers into white (no hard edges), so whatever caused the yellowing appears to have worked its way in from the edges while in the stack. The yellowing appears on both the front and back.  I'm not a smoker and this room is air conditioned most of the time (I'm in South Florida, so even with A/C there is some humidity).  None of the matte prints in the stack had any yellowing.
> 
> Today I sent some of these prints to Paul, so perhaps he will add his thoughts here after he examines them.
> 
> Last fall my trusty R2400 died after 6+ years and was replaced by an R3000.  I have some things to report about it but will put it in a different thread.
> 
> Regards,
> Clayton
> 
> 
> Info on black and white digital printing at    
> http://www.cjcom.net/digiprnarts.htm
> I-Trak 3.0   http://www.cjcom.net/itrak.htm
>