You can definitely give it a few hours. I've washed prints that long. I would agitate gently every 30 minutes or so.
Paul via phone > On Jul 24, 2017, at 8:22 PM, Stanley Halpin <s...@stans-photography.info> > wrote: > > The print in question is an 11x14 color commercially printed favorite of mine > - taken with P645 one early foggy morning in 1999… > > So we had a flood. The garage had water up to 26.5 inches. It would have > taken 27.5 inches for the water from the river to begin flowing on into the > house, so that was the good news. > But among other items not removed from the garage before the water rose was a > trunk containing many posters, photo prints, commercial prints (e.g. my > collection of Byte Magazine cover artwork). > Now that I have cleaned, repaired, or discarded everything else from the > garage, it is time to start salvaging the artwork. > > Some of the prints have been easy. Soak, wash gently, rinse, squeegee, and > place in a blotter book. Seems to be working. But THE print in question is > about 80% stuck to the glass from the frame. Yes it was matted, but either > the mat was too flimsy or it softened too much due to the soaking it received > in the flood. So the print is stuck to the glass. > > I have the glass + print soaking in a large trey. I think/hope eventually the > print will float off. > > So here (at last) is the question: how long can I leave a photographic print > to soak? Is there some point at which the emulsion will begin to decompose? I > would rather let it be for a few hours rather than trying to peel it off the > glass, but I don’t know how long I can wait before I cause more damage. > > I may or may not be able to find the negative from which I printed, and I > would kinda like to salvage and retain the original print… > > Thanks for any suggestions! > > stan > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
