Re: IR list, lith printing and gold toners

[Graham <cmm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 10:37 AM 12/4/99 -0000, you wrote:
>Hi Graham,
>The gold toners I use almost exclusively are those from Fotospeed and from
>Tetenal. For years gold toner in the UK 'was' Tetenal. There was no other
>generally available without making your own - which is not an awful lot
>cheaper given the fuss involved, and that Tetenal's product was (is) so
>good. A few years ago Fotospeed joined the gold toner market too. They are
>both very good products and in terms of method, result and capacity seem
>pretty much interchangeable,

                      ((much snipped ))

>I don't know about Fotospeed in Canada. I have e-mailed John Herlinger who
>owns Fotospeed and will pass on details if he can help. You could try his e
>mail which is in the back of the book.
>

Thanks Tim. 

Your information pretty much ties together all the little bits of information
I have gathered from other sources. 

However, it still leaves some questions.  The Gold Protective formulas are 
simply Gold Chloride and Thiocyanate as are most of the other formulas but
with differing stated capacities and tray life; it makes me wonder just what
the differences are.  

I did the address for the Canadian source of Fotospeed that you sent; thank
you,
I will be contacting them.  My queries to Tetenal and the UK distributor of 
Fotospeed have so far gone unanswered.  Tetenal is available in the US
through a
number of sources and I believe Jobo is the US distributor.  Even with Free
Trade
and all it is still an exercise in excessive time and cost than when
dealing with
a Canadian source.

Photographers Formulary is a source for a Nelson gold Toner, available in a
1, 2, and 4
liter kit.  They also list a Gold Protective Toner as well as Gold 231
(ansco I believe)
toner and  POP gold toner.  Such a selection is what started me down this
road in the 
first place.  Too many choices and no experience with any. Now if there was
only one 
choice it would have made things simple but I would not have had to take
the time to
do a bit of research on the subject.  All in all, still bit a confused but
richer for 
the experience.

Thanks again for you help.

Cheers, Graham
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