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This is very unusual.
It should not happen.
You do not need hardener.
You must be sure that the temperature is at 20 degrees C.
22 may be fine, but keep it at 20. if you can.
Coolish?
Measure it.
When does it come off the paper? In the water? or after
you put it up to drain/dry?!
Are you drying flat or vertically?
I once lost a picture of my cat,.. the room temperature
got up to 35 degrees and the image which was drying on in
a vertical position, the cat slid right down to the floor
into a pool of emulsion "blood"!
You certainly do not need to use glutaraldehyde...
why don't you just try a regular hardening fixer?
Please let me know the results and how your problem is
solved!
Contact me off list if you have any problems.
Ray
> I am making my first attempts at using liquid
> emulsion (on paper) and I am in
> need of some advice and troubleshooting. Although
> the prints look fine when
> they come out of the developer and fixer baths, the
> emulsion (especially the
> blacks) seem to run off almost right away in the
> (very gentle) wash, leaving
> me, ultimately, with only a ghost image.
>
> The wash water is coolish, so I know that it is not
> causing the emulsion to
> melt. My developer is Agfa Neutol WA, and then I am
> using two fixing baths
> (Ilford Rapid Fixer diluted 1:9). I am not using any
> hardening in the fix...could
> that be the problem? The papers I am experimenting
> with are Fabriano
> Artistico and Rives BFK, and the liquid emulsion is
> Luminos Silverprint.
>
> I have now repeated this process twice, processing
> several sheets of paper
> each time, and on both occasions I have had the same
> problem.
>
> I am eager to try again (masochism!), and would
> appreciate any suggestions.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Rita Bernstein
>
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