Dr. Jekyll No. 2, chloride lith developer

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This is an improvement on Dr. Jekyll No.1. It replaces the bromide restrainer with sodium chloride. It's the only lith developer I know that does so. Like No. 1, it's free of formaldehyde, is mixed at working strength and should be used immediately.


1l water, room temperature
18g sodium carbonate monohydrate (Arm & Hammer Washing soda)
a pinch of sodium sulfite (about 0.5g)
4g hydroquinone
15g sodium chloride (Diamond Crystal Kosher Salt)

(The carbonate and chloride amounts were...

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Psvensson's improved version; Dr. Jekyll No. 2. Dan

I just tried this today... works great on some cheap paper i bummed off of one of my friends.

All i had was ilford which like you said dosn't work

I am new to Lith Printing

I was looking for a cheap alternative to the Lith developers and found your home made developer.

SO you just make the one batch and use it ? there is no part A and B?

Thanks
Chris

Has anyone actually tried this compared to Dr. Jekyll No. 1? I'm really curious about if using chloride as a restrainer rather than Bromide gives measurably different results.

Working my way through home mixed lith formulas, from the web and Tim Rudman's books, I mixed up this mix TWICE yesterday.

In both mixes after about 10 minutes the developer started to darken very quickly to an almost opaque brown. It did remain usable for about 20 mins though, BUT it DID NOT produce anything lith like on some new Fomatone Classic FB paper, that says that it is lithable in the accompanying information sheet. The actual prints made just looked like ordinary FB prints, but with the toned paper base.

I'm quite new to lith, but comparing the level of sodium sulphite to other formulas, it does seem REALLY low to me?

Terry S