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

I use a holding tray (Kodak Automatic Tray Siphon attached) to collect prints as they are printed. Then I put them all in my Dunwright and Vogel 20x24 vertical washer. This washer is nice as it can be partitioned to take all sizes of paper, simultaneously, without losing small prints in the bottom of a deep washer. It has twelve slots which I have mine partitioned up into four 20x24/16x20 slots, four 11x14 slots, and four 8x10 slots. The four 20x24/16x20 slots take four prints of either size, the four 11x14 slots will take eight 11x14s, and the four 8x10 slots will take twelve 8x10s. This ends up being very convenient since it holds just the right amount of each print for my normal printing sessions. I typically wash a batch of fiber prints about 45 minutes.

Jim


At 08:07 AM 6/30/2005, Ben R. McRee 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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