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[AndrewBurns]

That is a really nice Kallitype - beautiful tonality. I really like the neutral toning.

Well... after thinking about it a long time I took the plunge and bought a B&S Pt/Pd kit. Spent a few days linearizing a profile in QTR and ran two test prints - both about 5X7. Both came out fairly good, Dmax could be a bit better - have a tray of water in the bottom of my cabinet where I humidify my paper so the humidity was about 50-55%. Printed on HPR with the Na2 process - having done some Kallitype in the past I found this process much simpler ( but a lot more expensive) .....want to try some gum over Pt/Pd. Watched a couple of Bill Schwab videos ( so sorry to learn of his passing) and it seems fairly straightforward. I have some 5% gold chloride around from toning Kallitypes, I read that adding a drop to the Pt/Pd sensitizer would increase contrast and maybe help Dmax - anyone have any experience with that?

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Those look great to me, first attempt or not (I wouldn't have been able to tell). About how much would the solution to make one of those prints cost? I've always heard people talk about the cost of Pt/Pd which makes sense given the materials but I've never actually looked into it enough to work out a per-print price. My current processes are so cheap that I've never even considered it.

Speaking of which here's another toned cyanotype, this one was originally a 35mm negative so this print represents a 14X enlargement, and I think it holds up pretty well.