Originally Posted by
Robert Brazile
Can't speak for Jim, but I've done a fair bit of salt and albumen printing with mine. 20 minutes is not unusual (mine was based on one of Jim's designs, has a bank of 12 fluorescent BLBs) but of course it depends on the negative and the particular sensitization formula you use. It's the usual story: print until it looks good, then print a bit longer. If the border starts solarizing/turning metallic looking, you're pretty much there.
Exposures should be roughly the same for salt vs. albumen; after all, it's basically the same process, just with some underlayment in one case, so to speak.
Robert
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