[pure-silver] How do you wash fiber paper?

I am making the transition from using a top-notch rental darkroom (which, unfortunately, has now closed) to a home darkroom. As I'm learning, there's much more involved than finding an enlarger! Right now I'm looking at the paper washing question. From what I can see there are two options: an archival washer (such as the Calumet or Gravityworks) or a large tray with a siphon (or even something as simple as the Yankee Print Washer on the B&H website: http://www.bhphotovideo.com/bnh/controller/home?O=productlist&A=details&Q=&sku=165262&is=REG&addedTroughType=categoryNavigation

My question is for those of you who print fiber paper: how do you wash it and are you happy with your method? For what it's worth, I print both RC and fiber, and typically have four to six fiber prints (a combination of 8x10 and 11x14) and perhaps twice than many RC prints from a typical session. And I follow the Permawash sequence with fiber paper: 5 minute preliminary wash, five minutes in Permawash, then final wash (at least 20 minutes).

Thanks for sharing your expertise!

--Ben
=============================================================================================================
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.

Other related posts: