I recently had a customer order UV-filter acrylic from my company for the first time and he was disappointed in the yellow cast it caused on his inkjet print. Turns out he was using Epson Exhibition Fiber paper which is full of optical brightening agents. I did some research and experimented with 8 different types of glass and acrylic on that paper. If you like bright paper, you might want to read about my results. My article also has a couple of links to other articles with more info about OBAs.
http://blog.framedestination.com/glazing/oba-inkjet-paper-and-framing-glass-choices/
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Thanks for posting this on AFI, Mark. I'm a Hahnemuhle paper user almost exclusively now and I use their products that do not contain optical brighteners. I'm especially fond of their William Turner and Albrecht Durer papers, but also love their Museum Etching.
I mostly do my own printing, but have contracted some printing. When I have contracted it, I have specified Epson Ultra Smooth Fine Art since it is more often kept by the folks who have done some printing for me.
HERE'S ANOTHER AWESOME ARTICLE that details more about OBA's than does your article. It also lists papers made without OBA's.
My long time friend of 22 years, Kevin Graham, is the Eastern Region Sales Manager for Hahnemuhle. He's also been with Samsung for a short period and with Crescent Cardboard for a little longer than Samsung. But before that he was for a long time with Ilford Photo acting as either a Regional Sales Manager or the Canada Sales Mananger. If you need contact info for Kevin, you can send me a message and I'll get it to you.
Thanks again for posting and for writing that article. Keep up the great stuff. WOOHOO!
You are welcome Barrie, and thanks for the link to the other article about OBA.
Thanks for this helpful info, Mark, thereby making it unnecessary for the photographers to do all the testing of the various options. My husband was a photographer, I swear we have every kind of paper, glass, film, mount, filter, ad infinitum, as he tested for the best way to print and display his work.