From: Judy Seigel (jseigel@panix.com)
Date: 06/30/00-11:56:28 AM Z
On Fri, 30 Jun 2000, Sam Wang wrote:
> The best result I got, a rich maroon color, was from toning with well
> used Nelson's Gold Toner. Fresh Nelson's bleaches easily because the
> hypo is too strong. The hypo in the toning solution is important to
> get dark tones, since without it the silver would be coated by a
> layer of gold before getting fixed, and get a lighter, though
> beautiful, bluish tone.
I don't recall offhand composition of Nelson Gold toner, but the
description reminds me of hypo alum toning, where the better used it is,
the better the color -- and you "ripen" it first by feeding it some junk
prints...
Judy
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