> Actually, in this case, I would suspect there might have been no compensating action at all. The greenish pyro stain acts as a variable contrast mask(posted 8077 days ago)Right, that's what I was getting at. While there was definitely fairly strong highlight compression the stain color made it _way_ too much for printing on VC paper. It might have been fine on graded paper or the stain could have been decreased or eliminated but the graininess was so ugly I didn't pursue it further.