WILLIAM GRUENEWALD wrote:
Those of you who have responded to my printing problem, I thank you, and I
took your advise. However, nothing has changed. I have persistent and
extremely long printing times with this material - up to 140 seconds, and I
cannot believe that this is "normal". I'm using the Beseler 45 Universal
Light Source - 4x5 diffusion, and a Nikon N2.8 enlarger lense for 35mm work,
enlarging to 8x10 with this paper.

Processing is standard at 30 degrees for the Ilfobrom process, done on a
Jobo CPP/Lift, using Ilfochrome chemestry - always fresh chemestry.

The resulting print is characterized by a dark, dense image. There is a
slight shift toward magenta. At 140 seconds exposure, the image finally
begins to look normal. However, with these long exposures, I've had to make
5 exposures at 20 seconds each to avoid overheading the Beseler or buckling
of the slide - non-glass carrier.

I've asked before if this is normal, and I'm asking again: Are those
printing times within what is considered "normal" for this process - I
understand that the paper is 'slow'.

Tanks again!!



BTW sometimes the answer is just "I don't know" and rather than getting
150 responses with "I don't know" the group just remains silent.

But here goes: I used a medium format Durst Enlarger with a 35mm mixing
box when printing Cibachrome (see long time ago). My times were quite
long as I recall, details vague, it was 30 years ago. Slides never
buckled. So I guess I don't know.