Ansco 130 is an outstanding developer - as close to Amidol as you can get.
Alan
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On Mar 27, 2021, at 10:56 AM, ej@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
You might try the formula for Ansco 130. It was my standard developer for my
production from early 90s until the end of commercial printing in around 2014.
Similar to dektol.
Eric
From: pure-silver-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <pure-silver-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> On
Behalf Of Janet Gable Cull
Sent: Friday, March 26, 2021 9:28 PM
To: pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [pure-silver] Re: New Dektol, dark brown
I bought it from Unique Photo, and called them this morning. Got a call back
this afternoon and was told it's perfectly fine (though not with me). He said
it performs normally but honestly, it's thick and very dark chocolatey. Seems
I saw here recently that Ilford has a developer that's like Dektol. I think
I'll search that.
They may say it's the dark Dektol is just the same but I like to be able to
see what's coming up on the print. I'm sending back the rest of the order.
On Fri, Mar 26, 2021 at 6:09 PM Ken Hough <k4sb@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Richard. This brown Dektol was first mentioned over a year ago. Nation wide
printers saw it. It’s not a local phenomena. I switched to LPD long ago but
needed some paper developer this fall. I got new dektol. Brown. Not smelly.
I’ve been doing this long enough to know (50 years) and it didn’t seem to
have that odor
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On Mar 26, 2021, at 4:10 PM, `Richard Knoppow <dickburk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Dektol should be white. The brown is from oxididation due to a leak in
the container. It may also have a fishy odor. I have encountered bad Dektol
in very old bag containers. Have it replaced. Developers should never be more
than very slight tan in color.
On 3/26/2021 6:09 AM, Janet Gable Cull wrote:
I just received an order of chemicals, opened a bag of deck tile to mix for
printing this morning and it is dark brown. I've never seen it look like
this, chocolatey. Surely there's not been a change and it's supposed to look
like this. What in the world? Disappointing when I'm ready to go.Have any of
you found it bad right out of the package? Packaging says expiration date is
2023.
Janet Gable Cull
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