RE: palladium bleedoff

DEAR MARK,
           I am pretty sure Chris is talking about “palladium” (which I have found in three dictionaries) not paladium (which I have yet to find in a dictionary).  If I may quote a gentleman and scholar, “hehehe”.
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-----Original Message-----
From: Ender100@aol.com [mailto:Ender100@aol.com]
Sent: Monday, July 10, 2006 2:59 PM
To: alt-photo-process-l@usask.ca
Subject: Re: palladium bleedoff
 
Chris,

Not sure what you mean by bleeding and am assuming you are talking about Paladium.

It may be small, loose particles of emulsion on the surface of the paper after washing...sorta stuck in the grooves of the texture of the paper...if you hang the paper to dry vertically, it will run. I have seen this on prints.

My solution is to use the sink sprayer gently at an angle and squirt this crap off.... once during the H2O soak after development and then once at the beginning of wash and once at the end of the wash. Since I am using COT 320, I blot my PD prints after wash so that no surface water is apparent and then just lay them flat to dry...they dry really well this way and flat with no wrinkles and no runs—the blotting also prevents water rings.... so after you blot, examine the print by holding it at an angle to a bright light to make sure that it is well blotted.... a couple of thicknesses of paper towel on top and bottom and an ironing motion with the hands works well.

Hope this helps,

Best Wishes,
Mark Nelson
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In a message dated 7/10/06 9:40:33 AM, zphoto@montana.net writes:

Back to alt this week: I've never seen this issue until this month,
although I have read about it on the list and kept notes as to its causes
(don't use Crane's Cover bright white, too rapid drying, too much metal
salts...). So this month I've been making prints my exact normal way, on
the same paper (Arches Platine), everything. The bleeding is only coming
from the dark border edges of the print and is not affecting the image
density at all.
Received on 07/10/06-02:50:05 PM Z