..Whether you intend to nake a positive sheet or enlarged prints from your negatives, you need chemicals to develop and fix your image stored on the photographic paper. You also need certain basic pieces of equipment and an enlarger.

The chemicals that you will need are a very similar to film chemicals. A developer, stop-bath, and fixer are required to make the latent image appear on your exposed paper. If you forget from the previous film section, a developer turns the exposed silver halide crystals dark. A stop-bath neutralizes that process, and a fixer takes those crystals and freezes them and makes the image permanent. If you leave the developing image in the fixer for too long, it will begin bleaching the image out.

The basic equipment are tongs, trays, thermometer, print squeegee, contact printing glass, dusting equipment, negative carrier, timer, contrast filters, safelight, and the enlarger.

 

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