----- Original Message ----- From: "Dave Valvo" <dvalvo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, December 17, 2004 2:31 PM Subject: [pure-silver] Re: NOW: Exposing paper was Re: POPwithpapernegs? > Richard, to make things a little more interesting > regarding the science > part: > > Optical brighteners have been known to migrate unless they > are mordanted. > Mordantly is very difficult and many paper manufacturers > can't do it > effectively. Brighteners can end up sticking their ugly > heads above the > Dmax in a print...thus lowering Dmax a little.......very > little. > > Dave > I wonder if this shows when the paper is illuminated with UV to make the brighteners fluoresce? I have one in the other room so I might give it a try. --- Richard Knoppow Los Angeles, CA, USA dickburk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ============================================================================================================= To unsubscribe from this list, go to www.freelists.org and logon to your account (the same e-mail address and password you set-up when you subscribed,) and unsubscribe from there.