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

One thing I like to do to conserve water is to cascade my wash water backwards.

(RC) Prints go from the fixer tray to a tray of water, that is fed by the outflow of the next water tray, which is fed by an old Kodak siphon. I figure that the minute or so that a print spends in the first wash probably gets 75%+ of the fixer off the print, and the 'Kodak wash' gets the rest. Prints never go directly from the fixer to the Kodak wash.

I built my own 'archival' washer some years back. (bit of a failure, truth be told) I used commonly available parts - no plexi, just a Rubbermaid tub as the basis. Anyway, one idea I was proud of was that I fitted it in two places with bulkhead fittings, to which hoses were attached, which cascaded the water backwards to a preliminary wash tray, and to the stop bath tray, which, of course, had no stop bath in it. The hoses had quick-releases fitted for stowing the thing away after use.

At least, it seemed pretty clever back then.....



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). 

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