Response to More Contrast out of T400CN

Kodak recently made a printing kit available to mini-labs for their new Select B&W C-41 film but the Kodak printing kit isn't always the answer. I have manage a mini-lab/camera store and I gave up on the test negatives for XP2 that I got from a national company. I made my own test negs from T-Max 100 and Tri-X and ran some tests on my machine to determine aims using my densitometer. I'm gettting better results that way than I did before and because I established the process for printing B&W on my color machine it's easier for me to modify it, and I did when T400-CN came out. I also can do very respectable prints from "regular" black and white negatives. Maybe your lab doesn't understand what they're doing well enough. If I didn't do a lot of B&W at home on my own I wouldn't know how to modify my procedures at work to make the B&W prints better.

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