Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Tyler Boley" 
<tyler@t...> wrote:
> 
> I think you will find a great deal on this subject if you search the
> archives.
> I've also heard it can be made to disappear one way or another.
> Tyler

Seconded.  I've heard a lot on various forums like this about this 
problem.  Usually it's something mysterious or hard to reproduce.

What this shows is that this technology is too new and WE JUST DON'T 
UNDERSTAND all the factors that might affect its stability.   People 
can run all the color stability tests they want and try to accelerate 
the aging process to estimate how long inkjet prints will last until 
your prints are blue in the face, but all of those tests are based on 
the assumption we can already guess what all the factors are that 
might cause fading, or color casts or outright changes in the coated 
paper itself.   But the reality is that WE DON'T KNOW what all the 
factors are that might cause this.

I have one set of color prints on EEM here at work, on my cube wall, 
under 24/7 fluorescent lights and 2 years after they were made they 
look fine.  I have another set at home made from the paper OUT OF THE 
SAME CARTON, that have been sitting in a drawer, which have taken on 
a greenish cast.   God only knows why.

This is yet another reason why I'm an advocate of having black and 
whte prints made photographically.   Because that technolog has been 
around longer so its characteristics are better understood and more 
predictable.