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Has anyone tried Kodak Photoflo to wet their inks?

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Do a search on here. Quite a few have/do use it, but if I remember right it's used highly diluted for ink.

 

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thanks.

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https://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/index.php/topic/231002-photoflo/

 

https://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/index.php/topic/205769-photoflow-fixer-for-dilution/

 

Just two recent PhotoFlo threads

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Hi,

 

Our friends at Organics Studio now offer 'Flo Plus' ink additive, which bears consideration. https://www.facebook.com/OrganicsStudio/posts/560050720744931

 

At time of writing, I'm not aware of a hands-on review of OSFP or comparison to B+W film wetting agents.

 

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yes you can else my experience with film development we used dish soap as an alternative to foto flo... but because probably foto flo is harder to come by when everyone else around you is going digital and digital printing... :< Film is dead in my country the fact Kodak no longer does film development services nor do I have the means to actually develop just a single roll of film... I could but mm...

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Just note that FotoFlo is subject to fungus formation as it ages (as in a couple of years out of date). So if you use it, you want to be sure that the ink you put it in will be used up within a few years of the wetting agent's use-before date.

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Good to know,rwilsonedn!

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I've used photoflow before. High diluted works well. Sounds like Organic Studio have the ticket in a pre mix.

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well film is cellulose nitrate and photo-flo is a surfactant made to be used with it. your celluloid barrel is cellulose with nitric acid and camphor alcohol.

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8 hours ago, es9 said:

What about latex sacs? 

 

if your celluloid pen is not destroying the sac.. I don't see why the photoflo should either

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That’s up to your experience, as to how much flow you are looking for. I use one drop in a 20ml travel bottle

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