Re: Bleaching palladium prints

bob rogers (bob@carol.net)
Sun, 23 Nov 1997 14:23:48 -0500

two small comments:

1) clorox cleanup is a solution of chlorine bleach and lye.
2) i think clorox is the only food grade chlorine bleach sold in the USA;
the store brands have various contaminants. (note: "food grade" does not
indicate edible!)

bob rogers

>>Dick Sullivan noted :
>
>>This is then activated with "Clorox Cleanup" a bleach with >cleaner which
I suppose plain Clorox will work.

>and secondly :
>one might consider the store bleach which is less expensive than Clorox™
>as it tends to now be a generic name. The reason is that the bleach is
>primarily Sodium Hypochlorite and, as I understand it, the cheaper
>bleaches do not have added fluorescent brighteners added as does Clorox™
>
>Jack Fulton
>