[Leica] Darkroom (Nova "trays")

[dlr at dlridings.se (Daniel Ridings)]

Believe it or not, but it is becoming more difficult, not easier, to do 
digital prints. Companies like Epson are changing their printers so that 
you can't use 3rd party (piezo-, and carbon) inks.

Just like cameras, printers have become a moving target and it is 
difficult to keep abreast with what is happening (unless you can afford 
one of the really good ones, the big ones ... they seem to be more stable).

I am only interested in black and white, not color. Printing color 
digitally is less of a problem, actually, hardly one at all.

So I am thinking about keeping my darkroom set up after all. I have a 
dedicated room for it (even though the boys have booked it for their 
week-end poker nights now and then).

One of the things I don't like is washing up all the trays when I am 
finished and have been thinking about the Nova system with a box and 
vertical slots with very little contact between the liquids and air. You 
are supposed to be able to just put the cover on and the chemicals will 
last longer without you having to pour them over to bottles after each 
run (if you don't just throw them out).

Is this a reasonable way of working for someone who would only go into 
the darkroom once a week (possibly twice).

Daniel