Response to Kooky purple fog (Kodak film)

This has happened to me before, both in my high school photo class and in my college newspaper developing--both of which situations we were pretty much the opposite of anal with our chemicals. I've been told by others that the purple signifies that you haven't fixed long enough (or the fixer is getting old and needs to be done for longer), that if you do that it goes away. And you can do it again even after you've washed it,I think. If it's uniformly purple and not too dark, in my experience they've printed okay anyway. But in the past I had some that were purple on the bottom half, and when I printed them that part was very grainy and hazy while the rest was in focus (darn). I'm just a student, and I'm not the most informed person on this, but in my experience since I've started being much more picky about knowing chemicals are fresh before I use them (and since I've started using my own and not sharing them with 20 people!), and fixing for plenty long, my negs have been nice and clear.

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