RA-4 Color Print Chemistry Mixing

Hi again all,

I managed to get some color print chemicals from Tetanal unopened and still fresh.
My questuon would be, how to mix them...?
I have the Color developer Starter, the CD replenisher and the BLIX.
-For the CD should I use more more water and less Replenisher o the otherway around as stated in the attached CD image?
-Is that 1L developer working solution thrown away after each session or is it reused?
-What would its shelf life be?

The Blix only gives me info regarding a Low/Int.Med/Std/ Rate of ml/m^2.
How much water should I use? My guess would be that the maximum dilution is 800ml+200ml as 2 liters come in the bottle and the maximum working solution is stated as 8 Liters.

afrank said:

-Is that 1L developer working solution thrown away after each session or is it reused?
-What would its shelf life be?

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No! The shelf life of the used working solution seems to be practically unlimited. No problem after many years. Also, you can do enormous amount of prints with just one liter.

The blix probably has a little bit less, but anyhow, I've been using blix more than a year old without any problems. But that is from Kodak. Tetenal's blix was always either dead on arrival, or went bad in just few weeks. This seems, however, to be a different (professional) product so maybe this is good.

You can try it at room temperature, develop for 2-3 minutes, and you can omit the starter.