Digital BW, The Print

Hello Ernst,

> There is now a discussion about Museo Silver Rag on the LL forum.

Thanks, I'll have a look.

>Is the yellowing happening more on the coating side or more on the paper base?

I don't have any sort of instrument to measure the color or intensity, but to my eye the yellowing is equal on the back uncoated side.  It occurs on all four edges equally.  As for intensity, it is not bright yellow (it doesn't look at all like the bright chemical yellowing we used to see on H. Photo Rag, for example), but is rather faint, but distinct.  The hue is yellow, not brownish.


>Did it transfer to the papers directly in contact with the MSR?

I don't think so, I checked the others again.  I don't know which prints were the ones in direct contact, but none of them have yellowing like these five.  Some are dirty and have some odd stain spots (one looks like something was spilled on it), but nothing like the even 4-border effect of these five.  When I found the stack I stopped work and sat down to examine the prints, which brought back a lot of memories.  The stack was about 5" tall.  The 5 MSR prints were together, and down at about the 2" level, so it took awhile to get to them.  The yellowing is distinct enough that I had an immediate reaction when I saw the first one.  None of the matte prints had the yellowing.  They were on a variety of papers, both OBA and non-OBA versions (VFA, Condor BW, Soft Textured Art, EEM, Photo Rag, Aurora Art, etc).


Regards,
Clayton


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