While it is debatable whether distilled water is needed for commercial like developers like Xtol it certainly is expensive and unnecessary to use it for stop and fix. Jerry -----Original Message----- From: pure-silver-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:pure-silver-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Dana H. Myers Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2006 4:34 PM To: pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [pure-silver] Re: Deionized Water-Advantages & Sources? Ryuji Suzuki wrote: > I know Kodak tells people to > use distilled water if you call them to complain about XTOL, but I > think it's not a real solution to the problem. Perhaps I've never had sudden-Xtol failure because I use only distilled/DI water for mixing developer, stop and fixer. I was in tap water. Dana ======================================================================== ===================================== To unsubscribe from this list, go to www.freelists.org and logon to your account (the same e-mail address and password you set-up when you subscribed,) and unsubscribe from there. ============================================================================================================To unsubscribe from this list, go to www.freelists.org and logon to your account (the same e-mail address and password you set-up when you subscribed,) and unsubscribe from there.