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Hi all!
It's been a long time wince I've been on the forum, but have come across something recently which I thought was worth posting, in case others have had the same experience (it may also have been discussed at length, but I couldn't find a thread when I searched).
I use Arista Private Reserve for all my RC printing, which is mostly family pictures, proofing and just playing around. I made a modest bulk order a couple years ago and have just opened up a new box of 5x7 which seems to have an issue...
I noticed I had a thin (ie, hair strand thin) white line, perfectly straight, running across the paper. My first thought, naturally, was that I had a scratch on my negs from storage in sleeves, but that would leave a black line, so I then thought more drastically, some sort of lens damage and this was some sort of artefact... Annoying, a little disappointing, but not the end of the world, not worth changing lenses since I was just proofing snapshots at the time. It wasn't until I printed a couple images on FB that I noticed: No Line!!
This paper has been stored well, inside it's original black plastic, inside original box, inside a bigger black plastic sleeve, inside drawers in my office.
My only conclusion is that this is a defect from production, has anyone else experienced this with Arista Private Reserve? I've pulled out a few random sheets from the stack and it appears they're all the same. Probably not much I can do since it was probably two years ago that I bought this paper, just interested to any other reports.
Cheers,
Steve
It's been a long time wince I've been on the forum, but have come across something recently which I thought was worth posting, in case others have had the same experience (it may also have been discussed at length, but I couldn't find a thread when I searched).
I use Arista Private Reserve for all my RC printing, which is mostly family pictures, proofing and just playing around. I made a modest bulk order a couple years ago and have just opened up a new box of 5x7 which seems to have an issue...
I noticed I had a thin (ie, hair strand thin) white line, perfectly straight, running across the paper. My first thought, naturally, was that I had a scratch on my negs from storage in sleeves, but that would leave a black line, so I then thought more drastically, some sort of lens damage and this was some sort of artefact... Annoying, a little disappointing, but not the end of the world, not worth changing lenses since I was just proofing snapshots at the time. It wasn't until I printed a couple images on FB that I noticed: No Line!!
This paper has been stored well, inside it's original black plastic, inside original box, inside a bigger black plastic sleeve, inside drawers in my office.
My only conclusion is that this is a defect from production, has anyone else experienced this with Arista Private Reserve? I've pulled out a few random sheets from the stack and it appears they're all the same. Probably not much I can do since it was probably two years ago that I bought this paper, just interested to any other reports.
Cheers,
Steve
