RE: HIE printing brownish?? Help

["Frank Schiffel" <SchifF@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

check your fixer. might be exhausted.

should be irrelevant what type of B&W film you're printing. the brown printing is a characteristic of the paper. 

now. how hot exactly did that paper get?? what's the expiration date on it?

you're doing the usual develop, stop, fix, wash, right? where stop is acidic bath of some sort? you can also do develop, stop, fix, fix, wash for more archival stuff.

my rule of thumb is everything gets dumped when indicator stop bath changes. but that's just my quirk.

and interestingly, Kodak no longer publishes how long a gallon of fixer is good for on the bag. used to be 100 rolls 35mm / gallon  and/or what was it 6 months or 60 days in stoppered  bottle? ah well. age.

>>> "Laurie Ann Smith" <zeldaz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 11/2/00 10:16:18 PM >>>
Developing any film form less than 5 minutes is not recommended. You need to
get highlights. I'd check every variable in my darkroom, like the
paper/safelight combo, the new cold light head, all that. Why not just get a
new package of paper, since you spent all the money on the new equipment? \
Zelda

 -----Original Message-----
From: 	owner-infrared@xxxxx [mailto:owner-infrared@xxxxx]  On Behalf Of Kirk
B. Davis
Sent:	Thursday, November 02, 2000 10:55 AM
To:	infrared@xxxxx 
Subject:	HIE printing brownish?? Help


 One again, I call on the photo gurus...

 I am trying to print these two rolls of HIE so I can post my stuff for the
 contest.
 I am noticing something strange (Other than myself for a change).
 I noticed that if I used Dektol 1:3 and had a 3 min or so dev time that my
 prints had a bit of a really light
 brown hue to them.

 I thought it could be my Tompson Safelight (a real monster) so I left a
 sheet of paper out for about
 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.
 There are a lot of factors at work here.  I just have my darkroom back up
 with a lot of new equipment, like a coldlight.
 Please let me know where to start.

 Kirk Davis
 Plymouth


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