fixing bath

She shook her head, smiling, pulled the sheet out of the developer and dropped it into the fixing bath.

After a 10-second exposure, the paper was directed to developing and fixing baths, then either air- or machine-dried.

The excess of silver iodine and silver bromide are stabilized by the fixing bath.

When the copies are removed from the fixing bath, they are allowed to dry by exposure to the air, or may be run through a drying machine.

These treatments remove much of the carried-over alkaline developer, and the acid, when used, neutralizes the alkalinity to reduce the contamination of the fixing bath with the developer.

After the exposure has been made the paper is cut off and carried underneath the exposure chamber to the developing bath, where it remains for 35 seconds, and is then drawn into a fixing bath.

Silver stain is a common problem in roller transporter processors, since the material (usually paper) is pinched between squeegee rollers to remove excess developer and brought into the fixing bath without intermediate rinse or stop.

DEVELOPING PANS are on the floor, developer bath, stop bath and fixing bath, with BOTTLES of CHEMICALS and packages of PHOTO PAPER.