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Sepia Toner with Easy to find reagents

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Hello everyone!
I've recently posted on my website (I invite everyone for a visit, it's on my signature) a PDF on how to make a Sepia Toner with reagents found in a hardware store. I made it using stuff I could find in a 2km (a tad more than a mile for those in the US) radius, and results are gorgeous!
The PDF:

I would like to encourage everyone who try it out to give me a feedback, it takes less than 1 hour to make.

Enjoy!
 

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I would like to encourage everyone who try it out to give me a feedback, it takes less than 1 hour to make.

This is a very useful idea that gets rediscovered once in a while. There are concerns about degradation in storage due to the formation of Thiosulphate, but freshly made toner works beautifully.

Here are some posts/threads from the past that you might find interesting and useful.

Sulphide/Polysulphide toner made using Sodium Hydroxide and Sulphur works well as sepia toner. Here is Gerry Koch talking about how it helped in a print show:

Similar ideas are discussed and tested thanks to non-availability of Kodak toner. :smile:

The toner concentrate can be synthesised in a simpler way without requiring external heating which makes :

It can be also used for direct toning of Kallitypes and Cuprotypes after diluting suitably:
 
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