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How to handle out of date paper?
Hello,
I have acquired a lot of out of date paper via a couple of generous forum members. Some of it is very old - 1990s MG III for example! How do I go about handling the paper to get the best results? Any tips or tricks? I assume there will be base fog which will reduce contrast? |
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Check out Lumen Printing ideal for old paper.
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Cheers Vincent - Not afraid of the dark |
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Wow, I like the look of Luman printing...
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Lith printing I've found will salvage base fogging problems with old papers sometimes as can adding benzotriazole to the developer. Using red safelights can help.
Thanks Vincent for the tip about Lumen printing, I wish I'd known this a few years back when I had a lot of out of date paper that was "losing it", bad ebay purchases. |
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What is benzotriazole, and what it it's effect? I use Ilford Multigrade dev, you mean just add it to my working solution?
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Found this excellent guide on using benzotriazole on APUG. I don't know if FADU will let me link to it, but if not a quick search will find it.
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Does anyone know where to buy benzotriazole?
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Thanks, Norm!
Alex |
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Silverprint used to stock it but looking it's now not listed.
Ebay.co.uk also sell it at a much cheaper price than wetplatesupplies who charge an extra £6.95 courier on top of their price for a 25g pack = £18.94 in total. A quick check on ebay (where I check the price and availability of just about anything!) it's £11.99 for 100g INCLUDING postage. I'm now hinking of getting some myself as I have some old paper that could maybe benefit from some. http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Benzotriaz...sAAOSw6EhUNWcw Terry S |
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