Re: freezing paper

Klaus Pollmeier (pollmei@ab.fh-anhalt.de)
Wed, 29 Apr 1998 12:56:46 +0200

Christopher Jones schrieb:>
> I have three boxes of 11x14 Agfa fiber base paper that i bought in
> January. I've had (and people I go to school with have had) problems
> with the paper fogging after a period of time. At this point I have no
> way of checking for fog since our labs at school are closed for the
> summer. My question is this: is it worth freezing this paper now??

For the protection of our environment (and due to related European laws)
AGFA (and others?) had to leave stabilizing additives (cadmium salts)
out of their emulsions. Of course, they didn't announce this to the
public but it definitely reduces the possibilities for long term storage
of unexposed papers. Esp. in hot or humid areas from now on freezing or
at least cool storage would be necessary to avoid fogging...

Klaus Pollmeier