From: shannon stoney (sstoney@pdq.net)
Date: 11/02/01-06:58:14 PM Z
Michael wrote:
>
>Do you pre-rinse your prints before toning?
>It's very important to get rid of the excess of silver-nitrate in the paper
>before you process your print. The movement of the water should be slow, as
>the brochure says, but it should be strong enough to wash away the
>"milkiness" that appears in the tray from the silver-nitrate reacting with
>the chlorine in the water.
>If it takes more than a one-minute pre-wash to get rid of the superfluous
>silver-nitrate, that's o.k., but don't rinse it too long and keep an eye on
>the temperature of the water.
I don't have running water yet where I print, so I just "rinse" by
rocking the tray in a tray of water for a minute. Could that be the
problem? Maybe I need to change the water for each print. Or change
it even during the one minute rinse?
--shannon
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