Subject: Faded photograph prints
I am a Restorer of Fine Art in Johanesburg, South Africa. One of my clients is a wildlife painter and photographer and has recently encountered the following problem: "I have been printing photographic prints using an HP designjet 5500 printer with standard dye inks. I print onto Hahne Muhle photorag paper. The prints are essentially tinted black and white (sepia type)--printed in 4 colour CMYK. I started running prints about 4 months ago. One of the first prints that I ran has turned green. It is the only one out of the initial 30 that this has happened to so I thought that it must have been left in the sun or mistreated somehow. I have now however had reports of 3 others that this is happening to. It appears to be individual prints out of runs, not complete runs. Any ideas as to why this may be happening?" *** Conservation DistList Instance 20:31 Distributed: Saturday, December 9, 2006 Message Id: cdl-20-31-021 ***Received on Monday, 4 December, 2006