I’m dismayed to hear your news as it seems to confirm that there are new production problems.
The ink stamp of the batch number and expiration date on my package is impossible to read- rubbed off in handling before I received it. (But it was clearly brand new.)
I have not heard back from PSI… I...
I heartily thank everyone for your responses and input, I greatly appreciate it.
I’ve been using Dektol since 1981. A few years back there was a chronic problem with compromised batches: I’d occasionally get a packet that had tan-tinged powder… I’d return it and receive a replacement pack that...
I bought a new package of Dektol in February 2026 and just opened it:
- the powder is BROWN, almost the color of sugar-in-the-raw brown
- nowhere on the package does it state “Dektol”, only “Kodak Professional Paper Developer” (I was assured by B&H that it is Dektol)
- it is...
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