Gary L. Quay
29-Mar-2010, 17:12
I've never seen this before. Although, I haven't done much color printing at home yet. I mixed some Arista RA4 color chemistry, and put it in the bottles in my Jobo CPA to bring them up to 90 degrees. I let them sit for an hour in closed containers until they reached the right temp. My first test strip worked fine. My second one, a couple minutes later, came out faint and yellow. I tried a few more times, and had the same results. So, I switched to the second 1 liter bottle of developer, and the first two prints came out fine, but by the third, everything turned faint and yellow again. Am I doing something wrong? I should note that the box of chemistry sat on my shelf for 9 months before I used it. Both of my Epson printers died last week, and I decided to try my hand at color darkroom printing again.
On a related note, I've heard that room temp color tray processing is possible with chemistry designed for higher temps. Is this true, because the idea appeals to me.
Thanks for the help.
--Gary
On a related note, I've heard that room temp color tray processing is possible with chemistry designed for higher temps. Is this true, because the idea appeals to me.
Thanks for the help.
--Gary