Re: Cyanotype total failure

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From: Robert Lyman (railroad@northweb.com)
Date: 07/29/01-01:13:10 PM Z

Same thing happened to a friend of mine. Apparently, when they go, they
fast.

Bob Lyman ( railroad@northweb.com )
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Ferguson" <tomf2468@pipeline.com>
To: <alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca>
Sent: Friday, July 27, 2001 3:08 PM
Subject: Cyanotype total failure

> I'm just curious if anyone else has seen this.
>
> My standard cyanotype chemicals (A and B), which worked just fine last
week,
> went "bad". They gave NO IMAGE at all! The coating looked fine, I even got
a
> printout image before developing/washing. The printout image was too
yellow
> to look normal. Once the paper hit the water, the entire image
disappeared!
> Total white paper. I finally threw out all my chemistry, washed everything
> twice, remixed (from the same supply of dry chemicals), printed onto the
> same batch of paper, and now everything is fine??????
>
> Normal cyanotype, ferric ammonium citrate and potassium ferricyanide.
>
> Happily recovered (as I'm suppose to ship quite a few prints next week),
but
> confused.
>
> --
> Tom Ferguson
> http://www.ferguson-photo-design.com
>
>

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