"The process needs to be accelerated, and by 'curing' the print with a plain piece of paper in contact with the print for 24 hours.

"After 24 hrs, you will notice the plain sheet of paper is wavy.

"On a print with heavy ink duty, I recommend changing the paper after 24 hrs and a new sheet and let it sit another 24 hrs.

"This is necessary for any print on a barrier paper that will be framed under glass or placed in a plastic sleeve."

"I have been using the new Epson 7600 print with Ultrachrome (archival) inks since receiving the unit in July.

"I have been producing prints and selling decor & fine art prints of my work to consumers via galleries, shops and a number of regional art fairs over the summer.

"The prints have been either framed or packaged (matted and placed in clear plastic bags).

"In the last couple of months, I have started to notice that a clear fine sheen (fog) is appearing on the inside of the glass of the framed pieces corresponding to the image area as well as on the inside of the clear plastic bags for the printed pieces.

"By disassembling the framed pieces-I found that the sheen is an oily substance. It can be cleaned off with glass cleaner-but the bigger issue is that I have sold over 1,000 prints since this summer and the liability that even a percentage of my customers would experience this problem and return the work.

"I seems to me that this is a problem of out-gassing.

"At first, I believed the problem to stem from prints that received direct sunlight . I noticed this first being outdoors at art shows in the summer as the sun would inevitably work it's way around to some of my prints and matted prints in clear bags would start to build up the sheen quite quickly. But just this week one of the galleries that sells my prints called and told me that they are noticing this in some of the prints they have-their display of my work receives no sunlight in any way-only normal gallery lighting.

"So far, I have been printing only on the premium luster paper. We have always been letting the prints air dry for at least 24 hours (as recommended by epson) and since noticing this problem as long as possible usually 3--4 days.

"Has anyone else noticed this issue yet? I encourage you to check any framed prints you may have on hand closely.

"I took a sample print in a frame which exhibited the problem to the epson dealer yesterday who sold me the printer. ðHe said it sure looked like an out-gassing issue. He said he would forward the print to his epson contact and get back to me. He said he had not heard of this problem before.

"He suggested that I spray each print with a special liquid laminate designed for inkjet prints designed for the outdoor signage industry. He thinks this would "solve the problem". Quite frankly, I don't have the space to set up a spray booth and another set of drying racks to accommodate this in my workflow for print production.

"My feeling is that Epson stated that this printer with these inks and these papers produced archival prints. Nothing was ever mentioned about a need to have to laminate or seal the prints.

Has anyone else experienced this issue yet?" --Todd Powell