Stability of monobath R3 for silver gelatin print

[darkosaric]

Hi all,

I would like to try R3 monobath for developing big silver gelatin prints, like 50x60 cm and bigger (16 ml HC110, 50 ml household ammonia, 10 ml Ilford Rapid Fixer concentrate, water to make 256 ml).

Problem is lacking place in my small darkroom, and also I don't have 3 very big plastic trays, only one.

After print is developed and fixed in monobath - is it ok to immediately wash those prints, or maybe better idea will be to fix them once more in fixer, then selenium toner, and then wash?

regards,

 

[Ian Grant]

I worked on a commercial monobath back in the late 1970's and initial testing was with B&W paper, results were indistinguishable from conventional processing however we did add a fixer step after the monobath to ensure permanence.

So yes a fix then the usual sequence of selenium toning etc would be better.

Ian

 

[darkosaric]

Thanks Ian .

 

[Peter de Groot]

Is this the same formula for the film monobath? I did try out the monobath with film in this worked pretty good. Would love to try it with paper as wel.

 

[darkosaric]

Is this the same formula for the film monobath? I did try out the monobath with film in this worked pretty good. Would love to try it with paper as wel.

I got this formula from project 55 site, they are using it for films also.

 

[Peter de Groot]

Yeah me too. I didn't know it worked good on paper as well. I will try it out then. Thanks!