Re: pink palladium prints
Beakman (beakman@netcom.com)
Thu, 15 Aug 1996 10:46:17 -0700 (PDT)
> Keith Schrieber and myself had dealt with this problem especially after
> using the Platine paper. Normal clearing did not remove all the pink.
> Some hypo clearing
> solution fixed this. The problem was not as pronounced on Platinotype (Cranes)
> paper but was a problem when EDTA was used with Potassium Oxalate developer.
> We found that EDTA did not work well with PO. It did work perfect with
> Ammonium Citrate developer. Potassium Oxalate needed one ot the acid
> clearing agents. ie dilute phosphoric acid.
> Gary Auerbach
I use Platine, developed in potassium oxalate, and cleared in Kodak Hypo
Clear. This works quite well. By the way, Hypo Clear has EDTA in it, as
well as sodium metabisulfite, and a couple of other commonly used
clearing agents.
David