Digital BW, The Print

Tyler,

That is so interesting. I used to have a quart of that Benetrizole
right beside my tray to cool it off a little too before I completed
the procedure with selenium (in the Hypo Clearing Agent). Then it was
perfect. I often used the Beers developer where you could create your
own mono color with the blend of anti-foggants. As I'm sure you
know,that yunky green cast came from the developing agents,like in
Dektol, etc. Later when the Ilford developer, Bromophen, came out it
has much better color tonality for an off the shelf product.

What I am hoping is that his kind of surface,color tone, and dmax is
now going to be possible with the Silver Rag inkjet media when it is
available. It certainly wouldn't entice me to abandon my love of more
natural surface rag papers, but is sure is going to extend our
possibilities.

Related to all this, do you guys remember the beautiful Afgacolor
fiber based type c papers they had out in the 70's. I was just a kid
but I still remember their qualities before Kodak and rc changed it
all. Now we just may for the first time be moving toward that
color-fiber semi gloss capability with this Crane paper, with
Ultrachrome and K3. And, they will be much more alterable than what
they had in the 70's. See, pixel technology IS an improvement.

John



--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Tyler Boley"
<tyler@t...> wrote:
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> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "john dean"
<deanwork2003@y...> 
> wrote:
> >
> > ...Agfa Portriga
> > Rapid, the paper I used for many years...
> 
> John, you do have excellent taste. My favorite paper for years. A
bit of benzetriazole in the 
> developer to make it a bit more neutral, and a slight selenium
toning to move a bit awawy 
> fron green, and it's pure warm glowing silver magic. My favorite was
a dense neg on grade 
> one.
> Tyler
>