Neutol+ vs Neutol WA?

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Can anyone comment on the differences in what you get with Agfa's Neutol+ as opposed to Neutol WA? The Neutol+ has no hydroquinone but I can't remember what effect this might have. TIA, njb

-- Nacio Jan Brown (njb@sirius.com), September 04, 1999

Answers

Neutol WA is supposed to give warmer print color.

-- Thomas Wollstein (thomas_wollstein@web.de), September 06, 1999.

Neutol plus (+) gives cold to neutral images even with warm tone papers. But it doesn't make the developing tray black and it's better for you and the environment. The WA gives a greenish warm tone to the papers I have used it with, and I like it! I believe it is warmtone because it contains "glycine"? Anyway, like other conv. developers it makes the developer tray black as time goes. Another effect of the WA is that it seems to give prints with slightly lower contrast than for instance Neutol (the one without "plus" or "WA" designation).

-- Peter Olsson (peter.olsson@lulebo.se), September 09, 1999.

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