[pure-silver] Re: How do you wash fiber paper?
- From: Daniel Bouzard <Daniel.BOUZARD@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 01 Jul 2005 09:49:06 +0200
Hello,
Few years ago before they closed I bought from Salthill a vertical
washer and an easel. Those are the most efficient washer and easel I have
seen and used
Daniel
> De : "Edward C. Zimmermann" <edz@xxxxxxx>
> Répondre à : pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date : Fri, 01 Jul 2005 09:45:42 +0200
> À : pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Objet : [pure-silver] Re: How do you wash fiber paper?
>
> Much consensus seems to support these vertical washers but most are just
> simple dividing schemes. These work well for a comparatively high throughput
> of similarly sized large prints. Most amateur darkrooms seem to operate them
> at a tiny fraction of their capacity. They are comfortable but also large,
> less than optimally portable and expensive making them, in my view, less than
> ideal to many of our lower capacity amateur darkrooms.
>
> Back in the days when baryta fibre prints were the standard even for mass
> operations and prints were not all "large" one washed in big tubs (often
> cascaded and dimensioned to the operative capacity demands), instead of
> plastic
> aquariums, and kept prints from another, instead of by static plexiglass
> walls,
> by simple clips fashioned from natural cork and latex rubber bands.
>
> Paterson and others make plastic print drying stands. These can be abused in
> tubs fashioned from storage boxes to keep even larger double weight prints
> (even 12x16") separated in smaller space.
>
> The Kodak Automatic Tray Siphons, as have been repeatedly mentioned, can
> provide a highly reliable source of water circulation and agitiation for
> these schemes.
>
> Important to get things working well and keep deadlocks down is to follow
> the mantra "faster fixing means shorter wash times", viz. to follow the
> current wisdom and fix in more concentrated and faster acting fixers (remember
> to test) for an adaquate "least amount" of time (again one can test for this).
>
> Using alkaline or neutral fixers followed by an alkaline bath one can get
> down to relatively short washing times.
>
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