Other uses for Kodak Ektacolor paper

[stevenje]

While cleaning out the back of the studio, I found a bunch of Kodak Ektacolor Supra 2 paper from my color printing days.

Has anybody tried using this paper for the chemigram process or any other alternative photography processes that might use color photo paper?

Thanks

 

[Jan de Jong]

If you still have some RA4 developer, do a test to see how black or what colors are still working. with about 20 year old paper perhaps the yellow dye is less active. I have not used the exact old paper but it probably is still good for chemigrams and photograms. As a hack, i have placed a small RGB led with remote control for the colors over the area where I expose photograms. So I can give it a range of colors. That part you can also do on the color enlarger of course.

link : Photogram with old color paper

After having tried with several older and very old color paper I was pleasantly surprised what is still possible with the old papers.