Kodak Portra Endura paper question. Old ?

[lhalcong]

I bought a box of cut-sheets Kodak Portra Endura F from Ultrafine photo warehouse over a year ago. I used it a few times, otherwise it has been stored in the freezer. Every time I used It, I felt I had a green cast. Finally I did the paper white test (cut half of one sheet and bleached/fix directly without exposure) and the other half was procesed normal also without exposure. Effectively I have a uniform green cast on the one half. The bleached/fix half with no exposure is a perfect white.

Since the the paper was bought from a good place, it has been stored in freezer. The fact that it has a uniform green cast. Is this aging fog ? Is that the way this paper fogs ? The other Enduras I know of , age yellow but how come this one ages greenish. Or is it something else ? Light leak fog would not have been uniform right ?

Lastly. I noticed the color of the coated side of this paper is pink , how come ? All the other RA-4 paper i've seen are blue in some way.

 

[mnemosyne]

Pinkish is normal color for unprocessed Endura, light blue for Fuji CA. As for the other questions, I leave that to the experts ...

 

[pentaxuser]

Bad luck. If it is a vendor problem he may be unaware of it. I'd contact him. If it was a safe-light issue then presumably others are affected so he may know and maybe is prepared to offer compensation

pentaxuser

 

[mklw1954]

I have gotten a box or two of Kodak Endura with each of a few enlarger deals. I have gotten rid of it all because I could never get consistent results. I attribute this to the paper being old and who knows how it was stored. I was tempted by the Photo Warehouse/Ultrafine Kodak paper but only use fresh Fuji Crystal Archive Type II - once you get the color filtration settings for your enlarger and films you just turn out the prints, rarely even need test prints, and they are beautiful.

 

[newcan1]

Some of the Kodak papers respond well to the inclusion of benzoin zone to the developer. I have bought endurance ultra from ultrafine and have been able to process without any base fog by using bzt. The only paper that this thus far has not worked with was Portra. But you could give it a try.

 

[newcan1]

That should have said benzotriazole. .
Dammed spell checker!

 

[newcan1]

And it should have been endura not endurance!