Can I reuse my Developer, Stop & Fixer for developing of prints?

[silvercloud2323]

Can I reuse my Developer, Stop & Fixer for developing of my prints? And if yes, how many times i can use it ?

I use:

• Ilford multigrade Paper developper
• IlfoStop
• Ilford Rapid Fix.

I'm not sure. Please help.
Thx

 

[MattKing]

Yes.
The Ilford website has data sheets for each of those chemicals which will give capacity recommendations.

 

[NB23]

Can I reuse my Developer, Stop & Fixer for developing of my prints? And if yes, how many times i can use it ?

I use:

• Ilford multigrade Paper developper
• IlfoStop
• Ilford Rapid Fix.

I'm not sure. Please help.
Thx

36 8x10 prints per Liter of developer, stop and fix.

If FB prints, for thorough archival, cut the fix capacity in half, therefore 18.

 

[grainyvision]

Note that at least in my experience, the paper developer has good capacity but poor keeping properties. I noticed differences in development when doing a few prints, bottling the developer, and doing another print session with it the next day

 

[NB23]

Note that at least in my experience, the paper developer has good capacity but poor keeping properties. I noticed differences in development when doing a few prints, bottling the developer, and doing another print session with it the next day

24 hours open tray or 7 days in a bottle.

Don’t forget that to fully develop a print, up to 4 minutes is the norm. Sometimes after 2 minutes you might think it’s already too long, and yet you are only half way through full development.

The way to judge a developer is by the blacks. If no deep blacks, it’s getting exhausted.

 

[grainyvision]

24 hours open tray or 7 days in a bottle.

Don’t forget that to fully develop a print, up to 4 minutes is the norm. Sometimes after 2 minutes you might think it’s already too long, and yet you are only half way through full development.

The way to judge a developer is by the blacks. If no deep blacks, it’s getting exhausted.

The instructions for Ilford Multigrade is 2m for FB papers. Yea, you can probably stretch it a lot further if you extend development time significantly, but I'd bet that this imparts other effects like fog or inappropriate darkening of highlights. As with all things film, do what makes results you like

 

[NB23]

Actually, Ilford recommends 1.5 to 3 minutes for 1:9 dilution, and 2-5 minutes if it’s diluted 1:14... but yeah, 90% of the time, 2 minutes is enough unless the developer is starting to get old...

 

[silvercloud2323]

Thank you all so much!

 

[darkroommike]

I will often deploy a second set of matching trays as floating lids if I am short on time, then continue using my chems the next day. Or I did before I got a set of Nova pods. Now I use those and developer can be used for a week or more.