Digital BW, The Print

Walter,

You are absolutely right, they did change their box design because of the staining from 
the wood pulp. And, if I remember correctly Fuji Crystal Archive type C material had the 
exact same issue, with the whites yellowing in the box before the paper was even opened.

When the Hahnemuhle inkjet rag papers were first unleased on the public they did it 
through Lumijet company. Lumijet stated that you should ALWAYS spray these prints as 
part of the complete process. They market their own spray, which is I belive just Lyson 
Printguard with their name on it. In the beginning I rarely  sprayed my prints from a dye 
based 1200 and they are all gone. But, the ones from that same 1200 that were sprayed 
still look the same after 5 or so years, and you can't tell they were sprayed. I am a big 
believer in sprays and am willing to sacrafice a small amount of bottom end if necessary to 
achieve stability. My clients have never ever complained about a loss of blacks in an image 
that was sprayed. 

The idea about writing a - take care of  your inkjet  prints - clause on the invoice is a good 
one. I'm seriously considering that. You know it would be sad to find out 5-10 years from 
now that a lot of your prints out there are deteriorated because of this lack of protection. I 
am also serioulsy considering spraying all of my prints with either Printguard or Lascaux 
for protection. I already spray a lot of them.  This Photo Rag scuffs so so easily. Just 
yesterday I reprinted a 24x30 for a good client because he scuffed it while removing it 
from his car before framing! When this happened with  a 44x60 last month, well that really 
cost me cash. This is serious stuff with a lot of the rag papers, especially the beautuful 
Hahnemuhle papers.

John


  Walter wrote:
ps: way back when in the beginning days of Hahnemuhle Digital Coatings, some of
their
papers came yellow out of the box. I found one such box like that. It was
rather alarming.
That's why they changed their box from brown wood-pulb paper to the white acid
free
stuff no doubt . . . Just a conjecture there.