Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/04/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I've been using this stuff for two years (the gold salon packaging) and it consistently stains. Rob Mueller Studies in Black and White www.studiesinblackandwhite.com rob@studiesinblackandwhite.com 877.257.1139 Toll Free (Office) 888.997.1294 toll Free (Pager) - -----Original Message----- From: K. K.NG [mailto:primeval_forest@yahoo.com] Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2000 2:53 AM To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us Subject: Re: [Leica] B&W paper - Forte Mark, Like Rob, I have the same experience with Forte papers. The stains will be obvious when tone. The quality, you already mentioned, inconsistent. I've just finished with one pack of 8x10. First 7 to 8 pieces were printed and sel. tone quite nicely. Subsequent ones were nightmares. I though I bought coldtone paper but turn out after the first few prints, the rest were all quite yellowish (warm or something???). I even wanted to throw out when the print was sink in selenium toner with really really brown tone in just 1.5 mins. The toner was 1:10. In fact, I was expecting a cold black blue tone rather than brown. Each paper in a pack seems to vary in performance. Just like lucky draw! :~( As I said, only the first 7 to 8 prints delivered the result I expected. Will proceed with the second pack. If it still turn out the same. I will choose to walk away. K.K. Wrote: ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 11:31:00 -0500 From: "Mark Rutledge" <markrut@ticnet.com> Subject: Re: [Leica] B&W paper Rob, I've never noticed any staining problems with the Forte VC paper in Ilford Universal or Edwal. I do find it a pain to use sometimes compared to other papers...very slow, inconsistent quality, but it gives a beautiful chocolate brown when toned in a strong selenium solution. By uneven do you mean the split-toned look? It's very easily split-toned, but with a strong dilution and increased time in the toner I can get a fully toned image. Mark Rutledge markrut@ticnet.com - ------------------------------ __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send online invitations with Yahoo! Invites. http://invites.yahoo.com