[pure-silver] Re: Favorite Print Developer

You talk about the look after processing, but dId you tone these? What 
comparison can you
make from that? And are you using the semi-matte or the glossy WT?

Mike Healy

On 23 Sep 2008 at 16:25, Craig Schroeder wrote:

From:                   Craig Schroeder <craig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To:                     pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject:                [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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