Jim, I realize you got burned pretty badly by this issue some time back and are all too familiar with it. But I just wanted to add that before we got a handle on the cause I was seeing it in a variety of papers, including some with no OBAs like William Turner.
Tyler
Dear Tyler,
Yes, I must agree that the staining issue was a big problem with several of my images, costing several hundred dollars to receive the damaged images, reprint, reframe, and reship the repaired images. I do realize that other papers without OBAs could be affected too, although this issue directly does not affect me now. However, I will continue to be suspicious about my paper handling chain, where a specific set of handling events could cause this issue to rise to the paper's surface, and where the issue could be my handling procedure, my conservator's framing procedure, or the owner's viewing environment. OBA contamination propagated by airborne or surface reactant pollutants, may be just one of the combined culprits. I also agree that we should continue to investigate the cause of this issue, by assisting Mark, and his project.
jim k
Posting Permissions
Reply With Quote
Bookmarks