For years I've seen many threads on water issues and I never had any. Then I moved. My last issue was D76 that developed shiny flakes, which I can filter out and it otherwise works OK. Now I have a Dektol problem.
I mixed up a gallon of stock with hot water. It sat in tightly sealed bottles for a month and yesterday I diluted 2 quarts of it 1:2 for printing 16x20 prints on MG IV paper. First time I've used that paper. As the day wore on, the tray accumulated more and more and more precipitate. It looks like dark orange flakes. It didn't look unlike what I'd expect if I'd wire brushed an old barbecue grill over the tray. I didn't see any in the working solution when I started, so I think it is being generated by developing the paper in the working solution of dektol.
Again, the prints were fine. Whatever bits of this stuck to the print rinsed off (but did not dissolve) in the stop and fix when agitated.
What is this? Thanks.
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