Salted paper print, any way to remove the sepia tone?

Daniel Eriksen

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• Dec 28, 2017

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Does anyone know if there is any way to make a salt print without sepia tone or if there is any way to remove the tone, so the print is "pure" black and white?

 

juan

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• Dec 28, 2017

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I did a brief experiment a decade ago using potassium bromide as the salt. I mainly wanted to see if KBr would even work, and it did. As I recall the KBr was faster and also black. You might try to repeat my experiment.

 

nworth

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• Dec 31, 2017

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KBr is a good idea. Gold toning may also deepen the tone a bit.