Re: HIE printing brownish?? Help

["Christina Z. Anderson" <tracez@xxxxxxx>]

Not being an authority here on this, but here goes:  isn't it true that the
more dilute the developer the warmer the paper tone? Dektol normally
produces colder tones, though, but usual dilution is 1:2, correct?  That
coupled with old paper.  I had the same thing happen to me this week; an old
package of paper I was using to print contacts turned out totally grey,
muddy, and unusable for even contact sheets.  I tossed it.  However, they
were not brownish at all; I was using Dektol 1:2.
Chris
  10 mins under the safelight and developed it.  I did in fact have a change
>  in color from white to a greyish brown color.
>  What is up with this??  The paper is Ilford RC Glossy and is about 2
years
>  old (no refridge, probably got pretty hot)
>  If I print without the safelight and run it though it still doesn't look
>  completly right, the greys don't look grey they look greyish brown.


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