Musings on washing fiber-based prints

To the OP - wash your prints in milk. Your karmic debt will soar sky high.
You know how much waste goes into the making of a gallon of milk? Yep, kinda
ruins your day, doesn't it.

Say, any hints for better toning in red wine?

To the OP - wash your prints in milk. Your karmic debt will soar sky high.
You know how much waste goes into the making of a gallon of milk? Yep, kinda
ruins your day, doesn't it.

Say, any hints for better toning in red wine?

To the OP - wash your prints in milk. Your karmic debt will soar sky high.
You know how much waste goes into the making of a gallon of milk? Yep, kinda
ruins your day, doesn't it.

Say, any hints for better toning in red wine?

In article .com,
wrote:

Water conservation might be "bull****" where you live, although I doubt
it, but in most of the world it is certainly not bull****. I agree,
water can be recycled, but is it being recycled?

Mark

Some places it is.

Intelligent Water management is a lot bigger issue than darkroom use.
There are more wasteful practices than washing prints where the water
is going back under ground or into the sewer system.

Like watering lawns and outdoor fountains and pools. Its ridiculous
to only look at fresh water as the resource when you have
oceans,...which can be filtered,....and after all land is a much more
limited resource and no one at least here on the Eastern US seaboard
is proposing a large scale limit on new home construction.

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You poor boy, someone challenges your parameters and you go all wobbly
on us, chattering on about milk and red wine.

Mark

You poor boy, someone challenges your parameters and you go all wobbly
on us, chattering on about milk and red wine.

Mark

In article .com,
wrote:

You poor boy, someone challenges your parameters and you go all wobbly
on us, chattering on about milk and red wine.

Mark

& your lack of intelligent discourse regarding photography leads me to
kill file you and be done, bye bye.

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"To announce that there must be no criticism of the President,
or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong,
is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable
to the American public."--Theodore Roosevelt, May 7, 1918

wrote in message
oups.com...
You poor boy, someone challenges your parameters and you go all wobbly
on us, chattering on about milk and red wine.

I was responding to the thread about "wasting water" All better now are we?

wrote in message
oups.com...
You poor boy, someone challenges your parameters and you go all wobbly
on us, chattering on about milk and red wine.

I was responding to the thread about "wasting water" All better now are we?

On 3/3/2005 3:30 AM spake thus:

You poor boy, someone challenges your parameters and you go all wobbly
on us, chattering on about milk and red wine.

Well, as the O.P. mentioned in the posting you refer to, I get to comment on
this. Thanks for standing up for me, I guess, but you have to realize that old
"jjs" is an odd sod, and this was just his way of being funny & ironic. I'm
not offended, so neither need you be.

But seriously, folks: this is a serious matter, depending on where one lives.
Where I am now (San Francisco Bay Area), water is not in short supply.
However, if I still lived in Tucson (which is where I first started taking
pictures and making prints, lo these many decades ago), I would damn well try
to conserver every drop of precious water, and not feel the least bit guilty
about defending the practice. Whaddya think--the stuff comes out of the
ground? (Actually, it does, there, but is increasingly difficult to get
sufficient supplies of.)

Or to put it another way, why *shouldn't* we try to conserve water, especially
if it can be done reasonably easily and economically?

I still haven't gotten any definitive answers to my musings. One thing that
sounds intriguing is using reverse osmosis to filter wash water. How hard is
this to do? What kind of pressure and size of pump are we talking about here?
Seems like this would be the ideal solution: a small pump and RO filter hooked
up to a moderate-size tank oughta do the trick.


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