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

Ben

For up to 11x14 the sequence that I use is this:

After being fixed, the prints go into a 
Zone VI 'washing machine' which is sort of like a
holding tray with circulating water.  During a
printing session, the prints accumulate in there and
sit there from a couple of minutes to an hour or so.

They go from the washing machine to a tray with
Permawash for 5 mins

From the tray they go to an old archival washer for 20
mins.

If I am going to tone, this is the time, followed by
more time in the archival washer.

When I go larger than 11x14 the washingmachine and
print washer don't work, so I hold in a large
tray/small sink with a kodak siphon, then do the final
wash in the same tray, shuffling the prints every
couple of mins, for 20 mins total.

Mark

--- "Ben R. McRee" <ben.mcree@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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
>
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