From: Clay (wcharmon@wt.net)
Date: 04/29/03-03:33:23 PM Z
> are both 20% solutions?
>
> Here is what I figure that is needed to fully tone a 20X24" kallitye
> print with platinum or palladium #3 solutions. I prepare one liter of
> toning solution using 5ml of the #3 solution, which according to my
> estimates amounts to only 1g of metal, since it is a 20% solution. To
> tone the 20X24" print I use about 200ml (or 1/5 of 1g of metal salt)
> of the working toner solution, so I calculate that the amount I am
> actually using to tone a print this size is 0.2g of palladium or
> platinum. Do these figures make sense, and if so, what is the
> equivalent amount being used to make a real Pt/Pd print?
Oh, sorry. The answer would be 0.96g , so roughly 5x as much.
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> Sandy
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