Platinum Printing Costs...

[pschwart]

Can't believe a Google search landed me at a Forum post from >20yrs ago. Were there even forums in 2002?? Anyway, am curious if the cost of an 8x10 pt/pd print has gone up or down?

From Carl's post in 2002: 5 grams of palladium chloride from ArtCraft cost around $85 dollars

That 5 grams will cost you $345 from Artcraft today, so have increased about 4x. Good watercolor paper has also become a lot
more expensive, too.

 

[Barry S]

Looking at an inflation calculator, the cost of that 5g would be $140, but the value of Pd has risen much faster than inflation. It was insanely high a year or two ago and has come down since then. Alt printing paper seems to be paced with general inflation. I don’t see many younger alt process artists using Pt/Pd anymore—they’re doing beautiful work with less expensive processes like cyanotype and salt printing.

 

[DREW WILEY]

The price of platinum should be down, given how many catalytic converters are being stolen. Maybe it's actually Pt/Pd printers stealing them!