RE: palladium bleeding still

Chris,

No, gum is easy! And so is pt/pd. Problem-solving can be hard, though...

I would avoid Tween with Platine. The time I tried it, it sucked. Try adding
a LITTLE Everclear (ethanol) to your sensitizer. I use it at a rate of about
5 drops per every ml of sensitizer. This is really a very small amount.
Everclear drops are much smaller than palladium or ferric drops.

Kerik

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christina Z. Anderson [mailto:zphoto@montana.net]
> Sent: Saturday, August 12, 2006 8:54 AM
> To: Alt, List
> Subject: Re: palladium bleeding still
>
> Hi Clay, Kerik, Don, Marek, et al,
>
> Clay, you may very well be right--ambient humidity is 30-40%,
> but the reason I did not suspect that is that this winter I
> never experienced this when the ambient humidity was 15-30%.
>
> I checked list archives and I noticed that other complainers
> of the problem were also using Platine. However, I will for
> sure put the humidity on my list.
>
> Kerik, I don't dry with heat. I coat the paper til there are
> no more wet spots and then put it to air dry in the closet
> for 20 minutes. It still feels cool to me when I expose it,
> so there is still moisture in the paper.
>
> Don, I did know it occurred with VDB and kallitypes because I
> did an archive search and bleeding came up a lot with those
> two processes. And, your 2 cents aren't worthless because
> you were one of the ones to tell me to reduce my pd salts :).
>
> I remember it was Michael Kravit who experienced this and
> added PVA goo in the amount of 2 drops per 5ml sensitizer,
> but I don't know him, and don't know if he is on the list to
> tell us if he ever solved his problem completely with this
> method and does it all the time or if it is paper dependent.
>
> I know it is not my developers, because they are fresh and
> clear, especially the pot ox.
>
> I have to leave town (again! It seems I am on a
> trip-of-every-two-weeks
> club) so will have to wait to test stuff til I get back, but
> today I was going to check one thing--that is the drop count
> of my eyedroppers, in case one is a 15 per ml dropper and the
> other a 20 per ml. Can't wait to get this figured out. I
> thought of this in the middle of the night.
>
> Thanks for all your suggestions. Marek, thanks for the
> late-breaking Tween, too, will add that to the list of to
> do's. I had tried methyl alcohol but I think I overdid it
> and it affected the look of my print so much that it was
> yukky. And, it is possible/probable that the reason Cranes
> doesn't do it as much as Platine is because it is a more
> absorbent paper, not because of some acid/alkaline thing or
> who knows what.
>
> And you all think gum is difficult....
> Chris
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