A while ago some discussion happened on using a pre-rinse to over
come green tint on the paper. I did some not very carefull testing. With the
paper I cut from a roll of Supra III a rinse really is needed. Not doing it
seems to really cause green meanies. OTOH using Supra Endura pre cut from
Kodak it doesn't seem needed. An obvious difference is the colour of the
rinse water post rinse. With the Supra III it's very blue. With the current
Supra Endura the blue is just noticable. OTOH it seems the rinse does  other
good things. It pre-heats my drum. The paper seems to soak up some water so
it's not soaking up developer. I think  that'll lead to longer keeping times
for the developer. I used to lose a little developer with each sheet leading
to an ever growing head space in the bottle. The only potential problem I
can see is increased dilution of the developer from the rinse water.

   Something I don't understand is why I need to dry the drum so well to
avoid spots but I can do a pre-rinse and no spots.

     I guess my  point is a pre-rinse doesn't seem to do any damage and it
does seem to help so I'm going to keep doing one.

    Nick