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> > It's quite an interesting phenomena.
Well, the problem is SOLVED! After MUCH calling around, I found the local graphic arts distributor, Xpedex, had a developer and fixer that they recommended for this film. It is their own brand, not Kodak. Well, it works! I didn't have time to fire up the photoplotter, but just partially fogged a snip of film with the red LEDs of my darkroom timer, developed it, then rinsed it and fixed it, and immediately I could see a difference, the unexposed part of the film slowly faded from white to clear, rather than to what looked brown under the safelight. When fully fixed and then washed, it is totally clear in the unexposed part.
This "fixer" obviously has acetic acid in it, you can smell it immediately when you open the bottle. So, I guess it is really stop bath plus fixer.
I will probably use up the rest of my Agfa film before recalibrating the photoplotter, but it is clear that this stuff is going to work!
And, I saved a bundle getting the film on eBay!
(Hmmm, if anyone else wants some, the guy has more rolls of it.
Look for "recording film". I'd buy it, but since I have 200 feet on this roll, that is probably enough for a decade.
Jon