With water containing a lot of chlorides I noticed that the highlights were
light rose. And with water containing iron, the paper was getting light
sepia.
The drying of a processed paper could be done by ironing. Quickly dried
papers
were becoming darker.
Of course most of those remarks are sometime based on feeling.
I once made 300 Van Dijk postcards in four days using the distilled water
method. ALL of them were satisfying and have not bleached in two years time.
I think that if the developing water contains elements which would turn the
non-exposed emulsion insoluble, then there will be a problem.
Good results with Hahnemulle paper (Germany).
philippe
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http://utopia.knoware.nl/users/philippe/academie.html
(the site of the students photography at Sint Joost Academie/NL)