Tetenal Yellow toner help

Ian Grant

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I have 3 bottles of Teyenal Multitoner Yellow/Gelb//Jaune Art. Nr, 4812. They came with a job lot darkroom clearance around 2000.

Can't find anything about it.

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Sounds like a generic thiourea toner. One bottle is the bleach; it's a generic ferricyanide/bromide bleach which will have a strong yellow color.
The other two are the thiourea and the activator, respectively. They should both be colorless. One of them will have a very high pH (it's either a carbonate or a hydroxide solution; usually the latter), the other will be rather hard to identify since a weak thiourea solution doesn't have very easily observable properties AFAIK.

For guidelines on use, refer to any of the documents on thiourea ('odorless') sepia toners. The ratios/concentrations will likely vary across manufacturers, but the basic principles are always the same.
 

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I thought Multi Toner was the dye coupler stuff - thus bleach, colour developer, yellow coupler in the three bottles?
 
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No it's either from the Colorvir tonning set or their Dye toner set.

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I thought Multi Toner was the dye coupler stuff - thus bleach, colour developer, yellow coupler in the three bottles?

I think your right. I never bought the Tetenal Multitoner instead mixing my own colour couplers and colour enveloper. I know Bob Carlos Clarke used the Tetenal kit for some of the images in his dark summer exhibition prints and book. Johnsons Colorform was a UK version released after WWII but kits were available in the 1930's.

Ian
 
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