My experience long ago of printing B&W on colour paper is that it plain sucks.
Look at the negs and see if they appear of the same tonal range of other known
good negs.
Earl
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On 11/11/2003 at 10:45 PM James Royall wrote:
>I just got back a roll of HP5 and was looking through thinking that
>black and white is flatter than I remembered, with not much contrast
>(it's been a good while since I have used any myself). A bit
>disappointed I wondered if the paper chosen had something to do with it
>and found it to be Fujicolor. This doesn't strike me as the right thing
>to do. What are the effects of using colour paper instead of b/w? I
>just don't seem to have the rich blacks that I think should be there,
>and the whites are not as white as they should be either.
>
>James
>
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