I would imagine that the odor is the outgassing of solvents used in the manufacturing process. Does your darkroom have an exhaust fan? The smell should fade in a few weeks.... > >I was wondering if folks had any ideas about how to treat the mats to >eliminate the smell. Googling every word combination I could think of >yielded nada. ============================================================================================================= 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.