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

[Loris Medici]

Paul, won't say something new here: Back when I was doing pop
palladium (and argyrotype), I was using two consecutive clearing baths
of one heaping dessert spoon of citric acid per liter following one
heaping dessert spoon sodium sulfite + one heaping dessert spoon
tetrasodium EDTA per liter final clearing bath with great success. I
never bothered with HCA or similar because it's too costly for me - I
mean compared to the above; I can buy technical grade citric acid,
sodium sulfite and tetrasodium EDTA for very convenient prices here in
Istanbul... (Better than supermarket table salt prices, where most of
you pay for that goes for the container, actually.)


2010/2/27 Paul Viapiano <viapiano at pacbell.net>:
> 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 ;-)