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OK, I'm gonna print some wedding invites and my finance says purple is the colour. Now, I got an ego, so I gotta contact print all the invites with a photo that took months to find. Now, the icing on the cake would be purple -- heck eggplant -- purple cast?? I tried selenium. I tried some mystical polymax with bromide then selenium. I tried all dilutions, quite a few papers, RC, FB. I tried toning Blue then selenium. Anyone got any suggestions? Thanks Dean
-- Dean Lastoria (dvlastor@sfu.ca), June 30, 2000
How purple do you want it? It sounds from your description that dyeing it might be the way you should go. If you're contact printing, you could use Azo nad Selenium at 1:4 will do the trick.
-- Sean yates (yatescats@yahoo.com), June 30, 2000.
Go to Kinko's, have it scanned, and printed digitally. Purple, if that's what she's gotta have.
-- Bill Mitchell (bmitch@home.com), June 30, 2000.
I agree with Bill Mitchell.
-- Patric (jenspatric@mail.bip.net), June 30, 2000.
Luminos used to sell colored paper, perhaps it is still available. I believe they have a web site.
-- Robert Orofino (rorofino@iopener.net), June 30, 2000.
Maybe a new girlfriend? (Just kidding!) Pat
-- pat krentz (patwandakrentz@aol.com), July 01, 2000.
Perhaps print your B&W negative onto color paper. Vary the filtration until you get the purple you are looking for. It will take a strong filter setting because the B&W negative lacks the orange mask of color negatives and because of the purple you want.
-- Michael Briggs (MichaelBriggs@earthlink.net), July 01, 2000.
Looks like it's time to go digital with this project, get the color and effect you want in photoshop and print the invites out on a photo grade inkjet paper. Should be pretty quick to do and you'll be the hero! What do you think ?
-- Jim (jimzpace@yahoo.com), July 01, 2000.
Dean, if you really must have a purple print, Ilford WT fiber and Selenium 1:3 for 5 or more minutes will get you as purple a print as you can stand. It will get the eggplant color with longer times. Ugh!
-- Michael D Fraser (mdfraser@earthlink.net), July 01, 2000.
I've achieved deep purple with low-key images printed on Ilford MGIV WT "left" in Polytoner mixed 1:2 for 15 ~ 20 minutes. The prints still look great after almost three years, so take this for what it's worth.
-- Robert Anderson (rapfoto@uswest.net), July 01, 2000.
Thanks for your answers. I'll try the selenium one more time -- maybe I just chickened out and pulled them too fast and my concentration was too low I think. On the colour paper idea, I was wondering, If I don't care about consistency particularly or realism, can I just dump the chemistry into my current trays without getting a big fancy set-up? Thanks again. Dean
-- Dean Lastoria (dvlastor@sfu.ca), July 04, 2000.