[pure-silver] Re: Any news from Ilford?
- From: "Dave Valvo" <dvalvo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 16:30:52 -0800
A little ID is used as an emulsion stabilizer which means it can't be taken
out completely for RC papers.
Dave
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From: "Richard Knoppow" <dickburk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2005 11:33 AM
Subject: [pure-silver] Re: Any news from Ilford?
>
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> From: "jeffrey" <puresilver@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2005 6:46 AM
> Subject: [pure-silver] Re: Any news from Ilford?
>
>
> >> > Hi,
> >>>
> >>> I was wondering if somebody knows anything about the
> >>> current status of =
> >>> Ilford.
> >>>
> >> > Are they still alive and producing?
> >
> > I ordered a couple boxes of 8.5x11 Ilford MG WT RC paper
> > about 8
> > weeks ago. I got the boxes a week ago, and noticed that
> > the label is
> > a little different from other recent boxes. Also, when I
> > dropped a
> > sheet into the developer, I couldn't believe how quickly
> > the image
> > appeared - I'm talking maybe 7 seconds before the first
> > hint of the
> > image appeared.
> >
> > New formulation?
> >
> That sounds like it has an incorporated developer. It
> _should_ say on the box, but maybe doesn't. Up until now
> Ilford has not included developer in their RC papers, at not
> in MG Deluxe, so they develop like fiber paper. Nearly all
> other RC papers have incorporated developer to make them
> usable in "activation" type processors. Perhaps Ilford
> thinks they can increase market share by making their papers
> compatible. The effect of incorporated developer when used
> in a normal print developer is to make the image come up
> very fast and to reduce the effect of different developers
> on the paper. It probably also reduces the amount of control
> over the image by varying the time of developement although
> this is limited anyway.
>
> ---
> Richard Knoppow
> Los Angeles, CA, USA
> dickburk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
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