Well, as a historic note, I can say 100's of rolls of XP-1 hand developed in XP-1 chemicals worked just fine for me back in the 1980's. The contrast problem is simply a matter of changing Multi Grade filters, or using a higher paper grade.

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William Robb wrote:
C-41 B&W, more correctly known as chromogenic colour, comes in two
basic flavours. Ilford XP-2+ is a non masked film (no orange base
colour), designed to be printed on black and white paper.
All the others have a mask colour, and are designed to work best on
colour paper.
Unfortunately, it is nearly impossible to completely eliminate colour
casts when printing on colour paper. Even my digital lab, set to
desaturate the colour still leaves a slight colour cast.
The films have a farily long exposure slope, typical of colour neg
film, and are very fine grained.
They don't have high acutance though.

William Robb




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