XTOL .... has it been discontinued ?

[John Salim]

Thank you to everyone's replies.
My supplier tells me they will get their stock of 'XDEV' late June.

John S

 

[Keith Tapscott.]

Thank you to everyone's replies.
My supplier tells me they will get their stock of 'XDEV' late June.

John S

What will use in the meantime John?

 

[John Salim]

What will use in the meantime John?

Hi Keith,
Luckily I have some packs of XTOL in stock ( probably about two to three months worth ), and as my ( replenished ) processing line has been fine tuned over decades, I avoid changing developrs !

John S

 

[BHuij]

Sounds like a perfect time to switch over to Instant Mytol

 

[retina_restoration]

Sounds like a perfect time to switch over to Instant Mytol

Or FX-55, which is another excellent Ascorbate developer.

 

[mshchem]

I use XTOL, have since it first came out.

Don't stress about this. In interim go crazy try someone else's stuff. XT-3 is weird looking yellow looks like Mountain Dew, no dust, made in Germany

 

[Keith Tapscott.]

Hi Keith,
Luckily I have some packs of XTOL in stock ( probably about two to three months worth ), and as my ( replenished ) processing line has been fine tuned over decades, I avoid changing developrs !

John S

Good for you to stock pile some.
Hopefully there it will be available again soon before your current Xtol is used up.

 

[sufnturf]

Or FX-55, which is another excellent Ascorbate developer.

And / or PC-TEA.

I find FX-55 and PC-TEA both excellent

 

[Richard Jepsen]

I’m a long time user of XTOL. However, I dislike the 5L quantity and as soon as Adox marketed a clone moved to it. I have been using Adox XT-3 with charted XTOL development times and I see no difference. The captura dust technology is a big improvement along with improved mixing.

 

[John Wiegerink]

I’m a long time user of XTOL. However, I dislike the 5L quantity and as soon as Adox marketed a clone moved to it. I have been using Adox XT-3 with charted XTOL development times and I see no difference. The captura dust technology is a big improvement along with improved mixing.

Those are pretty much my findings also when it comes to using both these developers in a replenished system. No pain at all switching from Xtol to Adox XT-3.

 

[Richard Jepsen]

We should all be thankful the full creative power of Eastman Kodak researched and marketed XTOL. The charts they provided in their tech bulletin are deep and detailed. That type of documentation will never happen again. I’m also glad for all the clones as I have used 2 when distribution issues came up.