[pure-silver] Re: Non-acid rapid fixer - continued
- From: Claudio Bonavolta <claudio@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2010 16:00:55 +0100
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De: "Nicholas O. Lindan" <nolindan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 08:07:17 -0500
Sujet: [pure-silver] Re: Non-acid rapid fixer - continued
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"Claudio Bonavolta"
> because the fixer is no more acid, the risk of stains has gone
> and there is no need to wash the prints between the fixer and toner
There seems to be more than one reason for staining in the Se. If there
is a lot of dissolved silver in the final fixer - and thus dissolved silver
in the print - there will be staining. The second fixer bath has to
be really fresh.
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Nicholas O. Lindan
Darkroom Automation
Cleveland Engineering Design, LLC
Cleveland, Ohio 44121
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You're right, my usual procedure is to wash the prints for 5 minutes in running
water (while I'm exposing and processing the next sheet) and let them stay in a
sink until the end of the session where I tone them all one after the other.
With the same F-9-like fixer that looks bad to the iodide test, I tried to:
- put the print directly from the fixer to the selenium -> staining
- put the print from the fixer to a short (10 seconds) rinse to selenium ->
much less staining but still some
- wash the print for 5 minutes between the fix and toner -> no staining
I've the impression that Ishould be able to tone the print after a shorter wash
than 5 minutes but was a bit short of time to test it this week-end.
The idea being to put the wash and toning in-line with the previous steps and
letting only the final wash to be done at the end of the session.
Claudio Bonavolta
http://www.bonavolta.ch
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