Re: Pellet process

Judy Seigel (jseigel@panix.com)
Mon, 27 Nov 1995 22:28:50 -0500 (EST)

On Sat, 25 Nov 1995, Bill Thoms wrote:
I would love to hear from anyone who has given the formula a shot;
> especially those who have been successful...Bill

A student of mine tried a couple of Pellet Process formulas which I did
not encourage and which didn't work anyway....

I did not encourage him because it seemed to offer no advantage (if you
want a picture in white on blue ground, print your positive, if you don't
have a positive make one make in about 3 minutes with 30 cents worth of
lith film) and a serious disadvantage -- it uses MUCH more chemistry than
cyanotype, the solutions being much more concentrated, and, as I recall,
it has at least one extra step, a final "development" in, was it potassium
ferricyanide? Feh!

Judy