Stop bath for printing - water or something else?

lee

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as a silver printer I use citric acid as a stop bath helps make the smell of a darkroom a little bit better. however, for film processing I use water as a rinse btw dev and fix

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sanking

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For several years I used a plain water stop bath with films but switched back to an acid stop bath after noticing the fixer stain or dichroic fog that PE mentions. This did not happen with all films but the fact that it happened once with some 10-15 sheets of 12X20 film convinced me that the water bath was just more trouble than it was worth. And since I switched back to the acid stop bath I have not had any more dichroic fog.

Sandy
 
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