Re: Albumen toning -Reply

Dan Cardish (dcardish@microtec.net)
Thu, 30 Oct 1997 19:09:08 -0500

At 02:04 PM 30-10-97 -0700, you wrote:
>A friend did some tests with a mass-spectromiter (spelling?) and found:
>
>3 separate washings are better than one.
>A wash of 20 minutes per wash yields best results.
>
>After one wash 95% of chemicals were removed.
>After 2nd wash 95% of the remaining 5% were removed.
>After the third wash, 95% of the remaining chemicals were removed.
>
>His results were not published and reflect parts per BILLION (way better
>than parts per million!)
>
>One wash of 60 minutes did not fair very well.
>
>David P. Milton
>

This is a well known way to archivally wash standard fibre based
photographic prints. Let them sit is a tray of water for 10min, and change
the water 6 times.

Dan C.