Page 83 - The Wellington photographic handbook

GENERAL REMARKS.
THE letters S.C.P., by which this paper is universally known,
stand for " Slow Contact Paper." This title was applied
because the paper is very much slower, or less sensitive,
than ordinary Bromide paper, and therefore more especially suit-
able for making prints by contact.
Compared with the WELLINGTON Bromide paper
S.C.P. is correctly called slow, but it is still many times faster than
P.O. P., and must therefore be handled much more carefully.
The great popularity of WELLINGTON S.C.P. may be
traced to two qualities which it possesses par excellence, the beauty
of the prints obtainable, and the ease and comfort under which
they are made. While ordinary Bromide paper calls for a dark-
room, and P.O. P. requires daylight, S.C.P. dispenses with both.
All the operations can be performed in a room illuminated with
ordinary artificial light, the speed of the paper having been so
adjusted that while such light is sufficient to allow of the paper
being printed at a distance of a few inches from the light, by retiring
a few feet development may be carried out without any risk of
fogging. As the light of the room is sufficient for printing purposes,
common sense shows that if clean, bright prints are desired, the
paper must not be unduly exposed during the other operations.
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