Eastern European RC papers

 
Let me share a recent experience with Forte RC papers:

Some workprints I've made on cold tone Forte polygrade RC paper showed
silver plating (metallic / reflective silver particles in the dark tones) in
a relatively short time period (in about 6 months, regardless the place I've
kept them. I don't know if the papers are from the same batch). I always pay
extreme attention to use fresh fixer and to wash enough. This recent
incident was very frustating as one of the problem prints was a gift to a
friend - I printed the same image using Ziatype and gave it to my friend.
Now I'm pretty sure that it won't cause any problems. :)

Regards,
Loris.

-----Original Message-----
From: Ryuji Suzuki [mailto:rs@silvergrain.org]
Sent: 22 Ocak 2006 Pazar 00:26
To: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca
Subject: Re: Gelatin-polymer blend

...

Archival property of acrylic medium with pigments is a different story from
using it as a part of photographic material, though. I'm less worried about
acrylic medium itself, but I am very leery of accepting titanium white as a
part of sizing layer without doing extensive tests. Exactly what AGFA,
Ilford, Kodak, Fuji, Mitsubishi and Konica did to remedy this problem is not
widely known. For this matter, I don't even trust RC papers made in eastern
European countries. (Their baryta papers are generally fine, though.)
Received on Sat Jan 21 17:41:29 2006