simgrant
Member
Hi All,
I purchased 1L of Tetenal Gold Toner about a year ago and have used it on many prints (maybe 50+) which is lucky as it is damn expensive. I had not noticed in this time any degradation in performance over except maybe that warmtone papers did not give such a pronounced blue as they did when the solution was new. I haven't used the solution for a few months as other things in life have taken priority. I recently used it again to alter the colour of a sulphide toned print (which it did do) however when I poured it at the bottom of the bottle I found there was an orange precipitate.
Does this orange precipitate affect the toner? does this mean the toner is finally exhausted? I haven't tried the toner yet on an already untoned print to judge the effect. It didn't do any harm on the sulphide toned print although I would not want it to get stuck to the emulsion.
Also should I just buy more Tetenal or is now the time to try one of the gold toner recipes in the Darkroom Cookbook like Dassonville T-6 or Kodak T-26? Do these have the capacity for long term reuse like the commercial gold toners?
Regards, Simon Grant.
I purchased 1L of Tetenal Gold Toner about a year ago and have used it on many prints (maybe 50+) which is lucky as it is damn expensive. I had not noticed in this time any degradation in performance over except maybe that warmtone papers did not give such a pronounced blue as they did when the solution was new. I haven't used the solution for a few months as other things in life have taken priority. I recently used it again to alter the colour of a sulphide toned print (which it did do) however when I poured it at the bottom of the bottle I found there was an orange precipitate.
Does this orange precipitate affect the toner? does this mean the toner is finally exhausted? I haven't tried the toner yet on an already untoned print to judge the effect. It didn't do any harm on the sulphide toned print although I would not want it to get stuck to the emulsion.
Also should I just buy more Tetenal or is now the time to try one of the gold toner recipes in the Darkroom Cookbook like Dassonville T-6 or Kodak T-26? Do these have the capacity for long term reuse like the commercial gold toners?
Regards, Simon Grant.