Re: B/W print turned mottled gold

In article <ktadnZwKuup4J8PanZ2dnUVZ_oKhnZ2d@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
Jim Stewart  <jstewart@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>I'm in trouble.
>
>I sent my mother-in-law a really nice B/W
>print that I made and after about a year,
>the black areas turned an ugly mottled gold
>color.
>
>She wants a new print and I need to know
>what to do so that the problem doesn't happen
>again.

This is probably a problem with fixation or wa****ng.  Either the print
is not adequately fixed (less likely; this would usually give some
silvering instead of fading to a gold color) or was not adequately
washed after it was fixed.

The other possibility is that the print was mounted with materials that
are not acid-free, which will cause fading which is visually similar to
fading from improper wa****ng.

Revise your fixing and wa****ng steps of your process so they are standard
(don't use Ilford's fast-processing recommendations with non-Ilford
papers)
and ensure that the new print is archivally mounted.

-- 
  Thor Lancelot Simon	                                    
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