Re: fixing van dyke brown AHEM!!!!!

[Sandy King <sanking@clemson.edu>]

Chris,

Some references suggest that you don't need to fix VDB prints at all. 
If true, this would greatly simplify your working procedures.

Sandy King

At 7:16 AM -0700 2/15/07, Christina Z. Anderson wrote:
> Thanks, Don, Kate, and Judy for answering me in my time of extreme 
> need--as in TODAY. So the consensus is there is bleaching for SURE. 
> Don, thanks, too, for the mathematical rundown. I can't find how 
> much "stuff" is in proprietary fixers.
>
> I wasn't printing prints, I was printing tonal palettes side by 
> side, so I was looking at gradients and 101 steps and color density 
> range squares, etc. But I do need to print a side by side with sod 
> thio and am thio and the same tonal palettes.  However, that doesn't 
> help me for today when I have to demo with no sod thio :( :( :(
>
> So I suppose I will just go with it and have them adjust parameters 
> to the am thio. I wonder why sod thio bleaches less than am thio??
>
> I'll go pull out my PF1 and read now.
>
> Don, it was John Zokowski himself who told me about Weston being 
> made from recycled denim...if we keep buying the paper maybe we 
> should buy stock in jeans.
> Chris