[pure-silver] Re: Favorite Print Developer

Dennis Purdy wrote:
 

My favorite developer for printing on warm tone paper is Ansco 130 with Glycin so old that it has turned milk chocolate brown.  It adds just a bit of warm stain to the paper.  The same can be achieved by adding a cup of tea to the stop bath.

Dennis

I had a large stash of Ilford WT FB that I was never completely happy with.  I tried a version of 130 with benzotriazole in place of the pot bromide and this paper really came alive with it.  Very deep, rich blacks and some of the nicest skin tones I've ever achieved.  I especially like it when printing HP5+ done in pyro soups as they match up tones so nicely.  Here's the variant that I use:

Water at 125° F 750 ml
Metol 2.2 g
Sodium Sulfite 50 g
Hydroquinone 11 g
Sodium Carbonate 80 g
Benzotriazole 1% 15 ml
Glycin 11 g
Water to make 1000 ml

This came from a discussion on APUG and was someone else's suggestion.  It's become my go-to paper developer and I wish I had discovered it before I did.


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