I like to double glove with nitrile gloves, and then pull off and dispose
the dev and fix contaminated gloves from the printing session, (leaving
fresh gloves exposed to move to remove prints from their 10 minute minimum
wash in running water and then the tone phase right after printing has
concluded to satisfaction. This keeps accidental fix stains from fingers to
a minimum. if I use two tones, such as gold and then selenium, I
triple glove one hand and use that one hand to do everything to reduce the
ammount of waste to 3 gloves instead of 6.
On Tue, Apr 18, 2023 at 9:53 PM Randall Stewart <rls63463714@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
The original poster's sequence is counter-productive, as he is washing,
then returning his print to a thiosulfate environment. As suggested by
titrisol, fix, then brief rinse (not complete wash), then toning, clearing
bath and final wash.
On Mon, Apr 17, 2023 at 12:26 PM titrisol <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
IIRC acid is your main enemy.
You can flip steps 3 and 4 easily and using HCA after KRST can also cut
the final wash time
In the old old times, it was recommended to have a 2 bath fixer, with the
2nd being plain hypo.
Then a short wash (5 min) and KRST for as long as needed, then HCA and
final wash.
Check the IPI docs on that 1+40 KRST, you might need to increase the
quantity for archival quality as IPI showed that selenium needed to be
carried to almost completion
<https://www.largeformatphotography.info/toning-permanence.html>.
Toning and Permanence of Silver Gelatin Prints
<https://www.largeformatphotography.info/toning-permanence.html>
Brown toner/Viradon was way more archival.
On Sunday, April 16, 2023 at 02:48:50 PM EDT, Tim Daneliuk <
dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
My normal archival fixing disciplines is:
1. One minute fix in Ilford rapid fixer
2. Five minute running water wash
3. Five minute PermaWash treatment
4. 3-7 min in Kodak Rapid Selenium Toner 1:40
5. 60min running water wash in an Eco Washer
Years ago, I tried combining the PermaWash and Toner
steps by diluting the KRST further to get a minimum
of 5 minutes time. This cause intermittent staining.
But as I read the ingredients for these concoctions,
I realized that KRST has Sodium Thiosulphate in it.
So ... should I really be toning first then hypo
clearning?
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