Susan,
What about the paper? Try coating a small area on a piece of newspaper
and if it still prints too light it's the chemicals.
Hydrogen peroxide darkens the darker values and not very much the light
values. If it "doesn't work," perhaps you have too light a print.
Cyanotype chemicals from Blueprintables.com are very reasonable - $30
will last you a life time. See if they can ship to Canada.
Sam
On Feb 19, 2006, at 12:35 PM, Susan Huber wrote:
> Hi Charles,
> The borders are not very dark blue which is usually the case in the
> more
> successful cyanotypes- the hydroxen peroxide did not work either.. I
> will
> mix up another smaller batch a la my old formula and continue to use
> the
> distilled water. The well water is the wash- which has a Ph of 7.0...
> the
> distilled water is; 6.5!
> I'll let you know- thanks so much,
> Susan\
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