Re: Bleaching palladium prints

Jack Fulton (jfulton@itsa.ucsf.edu)
Thu, 20 Nov 1997 07:54:42 -0700

Dick Sullivan noted :

>She describes locally bleaching areas of palladium prints.
>First she makes 3 dilutions of hardware store muriatic acid 1:1, >1:2, & 1:3
>She then brushes this carefully onto the area to be lightened using >the appropriate dilution for the amount of lightening.
>This is then activated with "Clorox Cleanup" a bleach with >cleaner which I suppose plain Clorox will work.

I'm not adding anything really … but …… Muriatic acid is simply a dilute
form of Hydrochloric Acid which many printers will have in their
possession
and secondly :
one might consider the store bleach which is less expensive than Clorox™
as it tends to now be a generic name. The reason is that the bleach is
primarily Sodium Hypochlorite and, as I understand it, the cheaper
bleaches do not have added fluorescent brighteners added as does Clorox™

Jack Fulton