Re: price of pt/pd printing

Chris,
What paper are you using? Some papers (in my experience mostly gelatine
sized) will stain with Pd sensitizer and are almost impossible to clear
completely. Try processing a piece of unexposed paper, or if you worry
that heat or something else with you lights is at fault you can put a
piece of unexposed paper in the unit with a light totally blocked and then
process it.

Marek

>
>> I do find it hard to believe that you are getting faint gray with 1 drop
>> of
>> 5% boost? Are you exposure long? Or is your light box getting hot?
>> Eric Neilsen Photography
>
> <Jeffrey Mathias said, snip from other post>
> It would be true the yellow is likely not cleared.
> However, not cleared can also look light gray. So, gray does not mean
> exclusively that it has been fogged
>
> Eric and Jeffrey,
> My exposures are 5 minutes, UVBL, and I use ammonium citrate developer,
> and
> a clear of a heaping TB citric and EDTA-di per liter. I use a totally
> colorized neg, with a "manufactured" border in Photoshop of solid color.
> I
> have not tried a black ink only border...
> Light box is not getting hot. The grey is very faint, almost
> imperceptible.
> If it is a clearing problem, is my clear of choice not good? How many
> prints, for instance, do you all get from a liter of clear? I've done 16
> 4x6's in a gallon, 3 trays 5 min each, dump the first when it gets
> yellowed,
> and now dumped the whole gallon.
> You know, I bet I could test the clear issue if I put the print outside in
> bright sun, would it expose and darken? Or could I reclear the prints at
> this stage after they have been done a week? So many questions, so little
> time, and I really should be concentrating on the fact that my 33 20x24
> frames I ordered from Jerry's Artarama for my thesis show which haven't
> come
> are, in fact, backordered, and they neglected to tell me in 3 calls to
> them
> until last night and I need to hang this weekend....when it rains it
> pours.
> Chris
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Received on Tue Apr 12 09:37:02 2005