Re: Just Kallitype Now, was Re: Platinum Heresy, was Re: Satista

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jeffbuck@swcp.com
Date: 04/28/03-05:34:02 PM Z


Carl: So, you mix from the powder, huh? This is one of the very few things
I've never mixed from scratch ingredients (I do mix FO from scratch). I
guess I received some warnings early on that it's relatively easy to get an
impure pt/pd solution. Any comment? Any points about the procedure you use?
 -JB

Carl Weese <cweese@earthlink.net> said:

> Sandy,
>
> Last time I ordered I think I got 25 grams of Pd salt and 10 of Pt (because
> you mix them at different strengths that's more like a 5 to 1 ratio of final
> solutions) which has lasted me a long time. I'm sure the price was
> significantly lower than buying pre-mixed 25ml bottles. My cost estimate is
> a little higher than Clay and Kerik because I figured for a 20% platinum
> print, and it looks like I'm using a bit more solution per square inch on my
> current favorites (Stonehenge and Lenox) than the papers they mention. My
> other favorite, Masa, would use nearly 20% less, and I've plenty of
> successful 12x20's on it, but I'd hesitate, to say the least, to try this
> Japanese tissue at 20x24.---Carl
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> > From: Sandy King <sanking@CLEMSON.EDU>
> > Reply-To: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca
> > Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2003 18:29:50 -0400
> > To: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca
> > Subject: Re: Just Kallitype Now, was Re: Platinum Heresy, was Re: Satista
> >
> > Hi Clay, Carl, Kerik,
> >
> > Thanks very much for the cost information. Actually the cost to make
> > a Pt/Pd of that size it is quite a bit less than I would have thought
> > so I still have my breath!! By what you say price would appear to
> > range from about $8-14. I will have to quite honestly say that is
> > less than half of what I would have expected.
> >
> > Cost to do the same size for the platinum or palladium coated
> > kallitype, and this is based on the price of the B&S Platinum
> > Solution #3 or Palladium Solution #3, purchased in the 25ml bottles,
> > which are same price to me, would be about $3.50, not counting the
> > cost of the silver nitrate and ferric oxalate, which are minimal.
> > That is less than half of the lowest real Pt/Pd figure but still the
> > difference is not as much as I thought. Is some of the difference
> > due to the fact that you fellows are buying the palladum and platinum
> > in larger quantities? I see that there is a real price advantage to
> > buying the stuff in larger quantities and I am assuming that you
> > probably buy it that way?
> >
> > Sandy
> >
> >
> >
> > --
>
>

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