RE: speaking of gold & gold toner

[Richard Knoppow <dickburk@ix.netcom.com>]

At 01:22 AM 05/31/2002 +0100, you wrote:
>>I've not seen one just like this before.
>
>Richard, there are dozens of variations of this formula in "the literature",
>and I seem to remember that Tetenal's gold toner is of the same type.
>Another example is in Photographic Facts and Formulas, under the heading
>"Thiourea Toner".  They do work (as Janet has shown, and I believe she
>mentioned fixing).  Without prior sepia toning, they do not give sepia
>tones, but the purple-blue-blacks associated with gold.  I find that
>increasing the thiourea makes the toner more active, if that's what you
>want.
>
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>Liam
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  For some reason it didn't register.
  Of course! Kodak GP-2, a standard toner for microfilm, is a
thiocarbamide-gold toner. Plus many others.
 If I could get all of my brain to work all of the time I would be rich:-)
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Richard Knoppow
Los Angeles, CA, USA
dickburk@ix.netcom.com