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From: sasaki@harvard.ARPA (Marty Sasaki)
Newsgroups: net.rec.photo
Subject: Re: washing fiber paper
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Date: Mon, 3-Jun-85 12:20:27 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jun  3 12:20:27 1985
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One small note about leaving a fixed print in a shallow tray: If you
want to cut down on your fixing time, don't do it. The complex silver
salts (the undeveloped silver salts that the fixer dissolves) will be
absorbed by the fiber in the paper. These silver salts are very
difficult to wash away.

By stacking prints in a shallow pool of water the fixer stays in contact
with the print for quite a while and gets a chance to be absorbed.

If you don't care about long fixing times, then this doesn't really
matter.

My method is to take the prints from the fixer, rinse them off in
running water, and to then put the prints into my washer. The flowing
water helps. Using double bath fixing and this washing method, I've
reduced my wash time from about 3 hours to about one hour (using a the
silver nitrate test solution).
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  Marty Sasaki				net:   sasaki@harvard.{arpa,uucp}
  Havard University Science Center	phone: 617-495-1270
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