Digital BW, The Print

I only print on matte paper, so I'll mix up some of your C6b base.
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I reciently searched and ordered the components to make this base.

I found that www.bhphotovideo.com has the Photoflow and Edwal LFN while I found them cheaper the combined shipping saved and made up any price difference.

I found the Glycerol / Glycerine the same thing different names 99.5% in gallon for $13.95 + $12.71 shipping for a total of $26.66 which was about the cost of a quart other places. A gallon is a lot but it has applications for health and skin care so would not need to go to waste. Distilled Water around a dollar a gallon at many stores and groceries.

Edwal LFN is an Ethoxylated Linear Alcohol, Isopropyl water mixture and while I also use an Ethoxylated Linear Alcohol mixed into farm chemicals as a surficant to help the chemicals adhere to leafy plants like poison ivy and briar vines, I went ahead and bought the Edwal LFN which also has a small amount of isopropyl alcohol in the mix. Although the farm chemical is $18 a Gallon free shipping Surf-AC 280 from www.growerssupply.com/surf and the Edwal is over $20 for 4 ounces. Edwal's MSDS does not state which of the many Ethoxylated Linear Alcohols it uses. However at a 1% mix ratio 4 ounces will make around 3 gallons of ink so one bottle should last me a long time. Although I was very tempted to mix my own replacement for Edwal LFN I decided to play it safe.

Bill Lewis