Digital BW, The Print

LOL. It's funny how everyone falls head over heals about pigment archivability when most likely half or more of all digital coatings in 'archival' paper will fail well before the ink. Kind'of an elephant in the room.

W

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On Aug 23, 2012, at 3:12 AM, Ernst Dinkla <e.dinkla@...> wrote:

> Clayton,
> 
> There is now a discussion about Museo Silver Rag on the LL forum. A 
> representative of Museo/Intelicoat is involved:
> 
> http://www.luminous-landscape.com/forum/index.php?PHPSESSID=b10b7470f473315dbd9e4a732b7c9987&topic=69272.0
> 
> About the more recent changes in that paper and the claim it is back to 
> old standards which sounds like an invitation to add your experience. 
> The information there suggests that the new paper base is no longer made 
> by Crane.
> 
> Is the yellowing happening more on the coating side or more on the paper 
> base? Did it transfer to the papers directly in contact with the MSR? I 
> think sulphur contamination or something like plasticizer evaporating 
> from PVC etc would harm more papers in that bundle. A bad gelatine or 
> PVA in the inkjet coating or paper sizing with biological impurities 
> right from the manufacturing stahe and that Florida climate (despite the 
> AC) could do a more selective destruction in time. Could even have been 
> bad water in production.
> 
> -- 
> Met vriendelijke groet, Ernst
> 
> Dinkla Grafische Techniek
> Quad, piëzografie, giclée
> www.pigment-print.com
> 
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