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Sunday I made it into the darkroom to do some lith prints. I mixed some LD20 100+100+800. I poured half the mixture into my tray and started printing. After a while I picked up the remaining 500ml I had with the intent to add it to my tray and I accidently added it to the tray of fresh water I had to use as my stop. So what I ended up with is 50+50+1100. am I right that this is a 1:1:22 dilution? My brain isn't working and I'm trying to keep better notes so I have better repeatability.
 

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There were 700 ml of water in the tray you added it to by mistake, right?

If that's right and you were really at 50+50+1100, then yes, you ended up with 1 part A : 1 part B: 22 parts water.

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Yes that is correct. Thank you very much.
 

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Do you normally use water as a stop bath when lith printing? That will limit your control at stoping development which can be critical with lith printing.
 
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Do you normally use water as a stop bath when lith printing? That will limit your control at stoping development which can be critical with lith printing.

No I don't but I'm out of stop bath and had some free time to slip in a print session so I used what I had. It's on my list of chemical I need to order.
 
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