Contact Printing 11x14 film - paper and chemicals

[Joseph Kashi]

Thank you, everyone.

I've ordered Ilford HP5 11x14 film as there's no other standard continuous tone film in stock, hence the film choice is fairly obvious <G>. I'll try tray-developing single sheets of HP5 in XTOL and PMK and then make a choice of developers. Alkaline fixers seem to be the obvious choice there.

I've also ordered several samples of the various papers recommended in this reply along with PF (Ansco) 130 and Dektol paper developers. I'll make some contact print tests and see what seems to work best for my own goals.

Any suggestions about developing procedures? I develop my 5x7 Delta 100 sheets in a BW King inversion tank.

[Hugo Zhang]

I use a Jobo 2840 tank with Jobo roller base for my 11x14 films. FA-1027 developer these days.