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Subject: [Leica] Darkroom (Nova "trays")
From: 54moggie at embarqmail.com (Robert Lilley)
Date: Wed Jun 6 09:48:03 2007
References: <4666A188.4030902@dlridings.se> <C28C1858.205C6%heninger@adobe.com>

How are the Nova trays different from the slot trays JOBO sells - or are
they the same manufacturer?

Rob

-----Original Message-----
From: lug-bounces+54moggie=embarqmail.com@leica-users.org
[mailto:lug-bounces+54moggie=embarqmail.com@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of
Wade Heninger
Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2007 10:53 AM
To: LUG Leica; Daniel Ridings; rolleiusers@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [Leica] Darkroom (Nova "trays")

I have the nova slot processor and *love* it.

They are very cool, take up little room and make clean up/prep much easier.


On 6/6/07 4:59 AM, "Daniel Ridings" <dlr@dlridings.se> wrote:

> Believe it or not, but it is becoming more difficult, not easier, to do
> digital prints. Companies like Epson are changing their printers so that
> you can't use 3rd party (piezo-, and carbon) inks.
> 
> Just like cameras, printers have become a moving target and it is
> difficult to keep abreast with what is happening (unless you can afford
> one of the really good ones, the big ones ... they seem to be more
stable).
> 
> I am only interested in black and white, not color. Printing color
> digitally is less of a problem, actually, hardly one at all.
> 
> So I am thinking about keeping my darkroom set up after all. I have a
> dedicated room for it (even though the boys have booked it for their
> week-end poker nights now and then).
> 
> One of the things I don't like is washing up all the trays when I am
> finished and have been thinking about the Nova system with a box and
> vertical slots with very little contact between the liquids and air. You
> are supposed to be able to just put the cover on and the chemicals will
> last longer without you having to pour them over to bottles after each
> run (if you don't just throw them out).
> 
> Is this a reasonable way of working for someone who would only go into
> the darkroom once a week (possibly twice).
> 
> Daniel
> 
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