Ed,(posted 8893 days ago)If I use water to stop and TF4 to fix, I get just as much stain without the afterbath as with it (subjective eyeballing, no densometer readings to back that up.) Saving that time isn't critical to me, not having to save and repour the developer is nice though.
I don't know about stain color, since I've only ever gotten the normal yellow-green one.
Paul