How to Process Kodak Vintage Photo Paper

Exposing The Paper

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  Ensure that the lights are all turned off, and that you are in a dark room that has absolutely no light entering the room. Turn on the safe light. Remove a sheet of Kodak photo paper from the Kodak photo paper box. Handle it by the edges with your dry fingertips.

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  Place the negative into the carrier on the enlarger, and turn on the enlarger. Focus the negative image on the empty paper easel to ensure that it is sharp before you place the paper in the easel.

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  Place the Kodak paper into the easel. Turn on the timer and enlarger to expose the paper for the correct amount of time, or as per a photo test strip.

Processing the Paper

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  Place the exposed sheet of Kodak paper into the first tray, which is the developer. Grip the paper with the tongs. Use continuous agitation with tongs, and develop using the appropriate solution and developing time as indicated on the Kodak paper&'s processing tables (included in the box of paper). When the image is developed, remove it with the tongs.

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  Place the processed print in the next tray, which is the stop bath solution. The stop bath stops the processing from the developer. Provide continuous agitation with the tongs for a minimum of 15 seconds. Remove the print from the stop bath.

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  Submerge the print completely into the fixer tray for approximately 10 minutes, and agitate frequently with the tongs for the duration. Ensure that the print is fully submerged at all times. Remove the print from the fixer.

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  Place the processed print into a tray with running water for one hour, in a water flow rate that provides a complete change of water every five minutes. If you are using an RC paper (resin coated), wash time is only four minutes.

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  Remove excess water with a squeegee.

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  Hang to dry, or place in a blotter pad to dry.