Fixer Suggestions?

[4strinbass]

I'm shooting a lot of Arista and developing in Rodinal. I've been using Ilford Rapid Fixer, but was wondering if there were any suggestions of other fixers I could use.

Something that'll be good for re-use, keep well, economical.

[BradS]

About five years ago, I switched from Ilford rapid fixer to Lauder chemical rapid fixer. I buy it by the gallon from Keeble & Shuchat in Palo Alto but, I think it is pretty widely available. For me it is a better product and it is less expensive too!

[Sundowner]

I've shifted over to Sprint's fixer, personally. It's non-hardening, which is great for paper, but you can make it into a hardening fixer easily. I've had very good results.

[jnanian]

I've shifted over to Sprint's fixer, personally. It's non-hardening, which is great for paper, but you can make it into a hardening fixer easily. I've had very good results.

+1

sprint chemistry is great...
liquid concentrate ez to mix

[ROL]

I use TF4 for everything, film and paper – very economical in that sense.

[Chris Douglas]

I am using Arista Universal Fixer. Less than 3 bucks a gallon and works great. The stock solution also seems to store well.

[Michael R 1974]

TF4 and TF5 are both long lasting rapid, non hardening fixers with good capacity, and wash times are shorter (for film, and especially paper) since they are not acidic (TF4 is alkaline, TF5 is ~neutral).

[Bruce Osgood]

I switched to TF-4 a couple of years ago. Gave up on acid stop baths and go from developer (film/paper) to rinse and TF-4. No acids are used in my work flow and no smell and it does save some money when you don't need a stopbath.

If you can't buy it locally and need it shipped remember you pay shipping for what is essentially water.

[4strinbass]

TF4 & TF5 seem like the fixers I'll probably go shoot for.

[L Gebhardt]

TF5 smells much better than TF4, so I've switched my film processing over to that. I've been using Kodak C41 fixer for paper. I have it for C41 processing, and it seems to work just fine. Given how cheap it is, I can change it more frequently.