What to do with expired fb paper.

[ibcrewin]

I've got a couple packages of expired Ilford paper.. It's old and just plain annoying to work with. Contrast stinks, It's curling at the edges. I can't even get a good contact sheet from it.

Is there a developer I should try to improve it a little? Toss it? Sell it (which seems wrong)?

Btw, i'd like to not that I've got some RC paper from a similar vintage and it's 100x better than the FB paper.

 

[Roger Hicks]

Some of the best prints I have ever seen were made using grievously expired paper. Add benzotriazole 1% solution at 10ml/l and increase both exposure and development time.

Cheers,

R.

 

[nikon_sam]

What Roger said...
Freestyle sells Moersch Restrainer Neutral Tone...Liquid Orthazite in a 100 ML Bottle
I use this for expired film and it makes it usable...works with film and paper...

 

[Jockos]

Maybe you could practice some lith printing on it, from what I gather it's a pretty unpredictable process anyways.

 

[Clint Troy]

Lith.
Or bleach. Unpredictable but you canget away with masterpieces.

Benzo is fine but I somehow cannot make it work on my fogged paper. I must be doig something wrong...

 

[ibcrewin]

oooh lith printing.. Maybe i'll try that!

 

[shadowfox]

Where have I read recently that expired photo paper makes a good base for self-coated processes like Cyanotype, Argyrotype, Kallitype, etc.

Maybe you can try that.

 

[Livesteamer]

Nice ideas. I just got a box of Kodabromide with a 1972 expiration date. Came with an interesting home made enlarger from an old gentlemans darkroom. Joe

 

[--s]

...plain annoying to work with....


don´t get annoyed, stomp it into the bin and take good paper instead. why make things more complicated than they are?