Re: stop bath

["Joseph O'Neil" <joneil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 09:26 01/04/99 +0100, you wrote:

>However I would VERY strongly recommend the use of a stopbath for printing
>as, especially with FB paper, the carryover is greatly increased.  When at
>college we sometimes had to use water instead of stop (when they had run out
>I think!) and we changed it after about 4 sheets of paper and you need to
>check the fix often to make sure the pH is still O.K. and that it is not to
>contaminated.

	I'm with Jason on this one too.  I've nto used stop bath for my films (35,
120 or 4x5) for a long time, but instead I use two water washes on the film
between the devloper and fix.  Never a problem, and indeed, I was finding
that too strong a stop bath on some film, in some circumstacnes, can cause
problems.
	But for paper, that's a different cookie altogether.  I always use stop
bath, otherwise you would be replacing your fix every few prints.
joe

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