From: Richard Sullivan (richsul@earthlink.net)
Date: 01/27/02-12:10:39 PM Z
Clay,
Send them to me as well and with your permission I can put them on my site.
--Dick Sullivan
At 09:34 AM 1/27/2002 -0600, you wrote:
>After Carl's comments about using LiPd in DOP, I ran a quick step wedge
>comparison test yesterday of the different metal salts and their response at
>the beginning of my printing session. I coated a single sheet of paper in
>four masked-off areas with each of 100% NaPd, 100% CsPd, 100%LiPd and 50/50
>NaPd&LiPd using straight ferric oxalate for the sensitizer with no
>restrainer of any type. I put a step wedge on each coated area, exposed on a
>Nuarc unit for 250 units and developed them all on the same sheet of paper
>in potassium oxalate at 110 degrees. I've plotted the results of the test on
>a excel spreadsheet for anyone bored or curious. Just email me off-list and
>I'll send it to you. The bottom line is that the LiPd seems to have a
>slightly
>different speed and have a more linear response than NaPd. There also is a
>very
>slight color difference that is harder to see on the step wedge than on an
>actual print.
>
>Clay
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