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    Cuprous chloride (CuCl) prints made with a UV enlarger

    Yeah, the picture faded overnight, but no big deal — as long as the atoms get lined up right, it can be fixed. This process feels full of possibilities! No darkroom, low tox…
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    Cuprous chloride (CuCl) prints made with a UV enlarger

    Oh my god, AntonKL, this is unbelievable! Under the light I stood at my cyanotype enlarger for maybe 10 minutes (probably even less) and watched the image slowly come to life — what an amazing feeling! You might actually end up killing cyanotype with this process. Respect! Here’s my 10-minute...
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    Cuprous chloride (CuCl) prints made with a UV enlarger

    Thanks a lot for clearing that up! I definitely misunderstood how it works — I’ll give it another try. I guess I was thinking too much in “silver halide + D76” terms and assumed CuCl would behave the same way. As for toning, I think that for an alternative photographic process to really stand...
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    Cuprous chloride (CuCl) prints made with a UV enlarger

    Interesting results, but I got stuck at the very first step. I mixed fructose + CuSO₄ + NaCl, but the solution was blue, so it seems no reduction happened. Unsurprisingly, when I tested it further with my UV enlarger (which I normally use for cyanotype enlargements), I got no image at all...
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