[pure-silver] Re: maybe the microwave? Drying paper in Microwave.....

hello,
Since a microwave was mentioned in the thread, I thought I might seek some information. I tried drying some 8x10 fiber prints in a spare microwave oven. It's too large for our kitchen counter, so it's down in the basement next to my darkroom. The results of the drying was all of prints were warped, tried weighing them under under several books for a few days, still the warped look. Has anybody succeeded in drying prints in a microwave that came out flat or am I chasing the rainbow???? 

Cheers, Bogdan

Shannon Stoney wrote:
I think I might have figured out what it was. I think the color shift might have been caused by the fact that I was using the 8x10 paper as test sheets for the 11x14 paper, so I dried the 8x10 sheets in the microwave to see what the image would look like dry. Apparently that causes a color shift. If I don't put them in the microwave, they look about the same as the 11x14 sheets. Does this seem possible: that drying the paper fast like that could cause it to take on a cooler tone? 

--shannon


On Mar 28, 2009, at 3:30 PM, mark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

    Well not with photo stuff,  but I have had it happen with other
    things.  It is not that uncommon for the package of one thing to
    end up being filled with the contents of something else.  Id drop
    an email to Illford.  Have the box, and include in the email any
    lot or date information you might find.  A UPC code also might
    help.  If you have printed enough to know its the wrong stuff you
    probably have something that you could scan and send as a sample
    of the cold tone.  Wife is a packaging engineer and the stories
    she can tell about what gets in the wrong box.

    It should help with two things.  First is that if they still have
    stuff from that lot that hasn't shipped, they can pull it so
    someone else doesn't have the same problem you did.  More
    importantly they owe you a box of warm tone paper.  You should get
    either you money back or another box of the correct paper.

        -------- Original Message --------
        Subject: [pure-silver] ilford box mis-labelled
        From: Shannon Stoney <shannonstoney@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
        Date: Sat, March 28, 2009 1:12 pm
        To: pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

        Just wondering if anybody has ever seen this: I got a box of 8x10
        Ilford multigrade warm tone, but it's not warm tone. I have
        another
        box of 11x14 Ilford warm tone, and you can see clearly that it
        has a
        brownish cast, whereas the paper from the other box is bluish.
        I guess
        it got mixed up at the factory or something.

        Anybody else notice anything like this? I looked online and
        couldn't
        find any info about it.

        --shannon


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