Bruning Polycolor Diazo Film - What to Do?

[Fixcinater]

I recently got a load of darkroom / camera equipment which included a stack of old paper and quite a few packs of this stuff.

One example is a 25 sheet pack of green tint, .003" base, 8.5x11" size.

No expiration date that I can find.

Is there anything I could do with this or would anyone in San Diego, USA area be interested in using it for something?

I did some searching, seems to be non-silver based so I'm probably not equipped to handle it.

Any thoughts/ideas?

 

[fotch]

Ammonia based process, for construction type drawings, also known as white printing even though though some refer to it a blueprinting. I use to work for GAF selling industrial size machine and paper by the truck load.

http://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/Diazo+Copying

 

[Fixcinater]

Thanks, Fotch. To Craigslist it goes!

 

[paul ewins]

My first job, many years ago, was producing microfiche for a bank. The masters were all done on film (something like a 4" wide roll from memory) and then contact printed onto diazo film which gave a blue/yellow finish. To develop the diazo you needed heat and ammonia which made the duplicators unpleasant to be around.

 

[fotch]

My first job, many years ago, was producing microfiche for a bank. The masters were all done on film (something like a 4" wide roll from memory) and then contact printed onto diazo film which gave a blue/yellow finish. To develop the diazo you needed heat and ammonia which made the duplicators unpleasant to be around.

The machines that I dealt with were all vented outside.