Response to Black and White films?

Part 2:

Papers are also available in:

A) Black and White, unless toned, a print is just black/grey/white. B) Colour paper, Black/White film developed in C41 is supposed to to be printed on colour paper. At this point the quality of your Minilab is essential, a good lab can print Kodak T400 CN and Ilford XP2 Super on colour paper without a colour cast. Some labs save time on adjusting the colour channels of their printing machine, than your pictures will have a colour cast, usually adjusted to brown. It is easier to do a brownish print than a really neutral one. (You get what you pay for!)

So there is a total of four options:

1) BW film, printed on BW paper: BW image 2) C41 film, printed on BW paper: BW image 3) BW film, printed on colour paper: colour cast difficult to control 4) C41 film, printed on colour paper: colour cast, which can be adjusted to look like a real BW image.

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