[alt-photo] Re: clearing pd prints...

[Kerik Kouklis]

Paul I don't think you'll find sodium sulfite by itself will be very
effective. I'd suggest a tablespoon of sodium sulfite and a tablespoon of
tetra-EDTA per liter to replace HCA. Also, I'd consider making your first
clearing bath acidic. I really like using citric acid at about 2%-4% for a
first clear followed by two baths of HCA (or equivalent).

Kerik
www.kerik.com


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Paul Viapiano
Sent: Saturday, February 27, 2010 1:04 PM
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Subject: [alt-photo] clearing pd prints...

Hello all, hope you're having a good weekend (besides all the new of
snowstorms, earthquakes and tsunamis...jeez!)...so this is trivial compared
to all that.

Over on APUG there is some discussion of using a 2% sodium sulfite solution
before washing gelatin silver prints (instead of a HCA), is there anyone
here who has used a similar solution when clearing palladium prints. I
normally use Kodak HCA and it works great when clearing images on Fab
EW...could I switch to plain sodium sulfite which is very inexpensive for my
clearing purposes...?

Curious...and forgive me that I didn't take the time to search the archives
here, esp if this is a dead horse issue ;-)

Paul
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