EJ Neilsen
Joseph Portale wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I use "purfied water" for my salted paper and home silver gelatine
> processes without any problems. I use to use tap water. The tap water
> silver solution throw down a precipitate (probably silver chloride) from
> the salts and minerals found in the city water. I do not find this with
> purefied water. Although, I really do not see any difference in my salted
> paper or gelatine prints between the two different waters, the black sludge
> on the bottom of the bottle bothered me (we all have our pet peeves). I
> would warn that if you are doing silver processes, beware of heavily
> chlorinated water. The chlorine will bleach your image excessively and
> possibly wash it away.
>
> I have only tinkered with pt/pd, so I can't say how important using
> distilled water is to these processes.
>
> good luck,
>
> Joe Portale
> Tucson, AZ
>
> At 10:07 AM 2/17/98 -0500, you wrote:
> >hello all
> >just a little question about water
> >in every formula you tell that you use distiled water
> >is it reel distilled water or simply "demineralised" water or purified
> >water
> >because all of them don't have the same quality and price
> >
> >and i want to if it is possible to use good "demineralised" to make silver
> >products or pt/pd products
> >
> >nze christian ( france)
> >