[pure-silver] Re: Favorite Print Developer
----- Original Message ----- From: "Jeffrey Thorns" <puresilver@xxxxxxxxx> 
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Sent: Monday, September 22, 2008 9:32 PM
Subject: [pure-silver] Re: Favorite Print Developer



What kind of tea?
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
The glycin may be adding a stain but it shouldn't. Tea will stain the paper yellow or brown and can be used to give the effect of a warm toned support. This is not a toner but rather just a staining of the paper or the gelatin. At one time many papers were offered in a variety of support tints (probably in the Baryta layer). Kodak had a color called Old Ivory which was popular with oil colorists. Most of the old surfaces and textures would not be acceptable to modern photographers. The very rough textures were mostly intended to cover up fine detail so as to reduce or eliminate the amount of retouching necessary for studio portraits. 

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Richard Knoppow
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