Digital BW, The Print

"The Pol55 negative should be cleared as soon as possible after 
  development, and some people prefer to fix, wash, wipe, and dry 
  them traditionally. Watch out as the film is extremely thin and
  the emulsion is fragile."
No reason to fix Polaroid negs. Hardener is good, but hardened negs 
remain fragile until they're dry. It's a bad idea to wipe any wet neg, 
especially Polaroid, so after hardening and washing, just agitate it 
gently in PhotoFlo for five to 10 seconds and hang on an angle to 
dry in as dust-free a place as possible. If you force-dry, you negate 
one of the purposes of PhotoFlo, which is to carry debris off the neg 
down to the drip line.

On the other hand... back in the pre-digital days, when I needed an
"instant neg" I held washed and PhotoFlo'd Polaroid 665 negs (for medium 
format) by a corner and blasted them with a hair dryer. Worked fine for
less than 8X10 prints.

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