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and last one for the evening....
I had a number of mounted giclee prints done by my go to Pro Lab about 6 months ago on smooth art silk fine art paper, which is a nice crisp white. This was my first real attempt at selling my work, I thought they looked fantastic, and I put them up for sale in a local gift shop. I sold a couple, but I think I was possibly selling an incomplete product (really should have got them framed in hindsight rather than just mounted). I went to pick up one of the prints to look into framing. It was a bit dark and dingy in the shop of the miserable day I went in, and put the fact the print looked a bit yellow down to the bad lighting, however when I got it home, the print (but not the mount) had gone sepia / yellow. I had an identical print (A reject due to a crease in the paper) that was done at the same time, which was still fine and really highlighted the issue with the one that was in the shop. I picked up the other remaining prints from the shop, and all had yellowed (yet again the mounts remained bright white).
I reported it to the lab, who are kindly reprinting for me (and I'm adding frames this time), but nobody has been able to answer the question as to how this might have happened, whether it might happen again, or how to stop it. Cos I'd hate this to happen to a customer who's bought one of the prints, and again it knocks the confidence I should have in my own products!
Anyone come across this before?
I had a number of mounted giclee prints done by my go to Pro Lab about 6 months ago on smooth art silk fine art paper, which is a nice crisp white. This was my first real attempt at selling my work, I thought they looked fantastic, and I put them up for sale in a local gift shop. I sold a couple, but I think I was possibly selling an incomplete product (really should have got them framed in hindsight rather than just mounted). I went to pick up one of the prints to look into framing. It was a bit dark and dingy in the shop of the miserable day I went in, and put the fact the print looked a bit yellow down to the bad lighting, however when I got it home, the print (but not the mount) had gone sepia / yellow. I had an identical print (A reject due to a crease in the paper) that was done at the same time, which was still fine and really highlighted the issue with the one that was in the shop. I picked up the other remaining prints from the shop, and all had yellowed (yet again the mounts remained bright white).
I reported it to the lab, who are kindly reprinting for me (and I'm adding frames this time), but nobody has been able to answer the question as to how this might have happened, whether it might happen again, or how to stop it. Cos I'd hate this to happen to a customer who's bought one of the prints, and again it knocks the confidence I should have in my own products!
Anyone come across this before?