Response to prints came out grey?

Louise It may be as the other posters have said. But my guess is eiher underexposed or underdevolped (or both) negatives. Here is how to tell. Take a piece of paper out of the box and lay it next to the enlarger but not so the enlarger light hits it. Or in other words, make a print on your easel with the paper on the bench beside the easel. then develop the paper as you normally would. If it does not get gray then it is not your safelight or light spill. Next, make a proper proof of the negative. Use white light (no neg in enlarger, about f 8 at 3 second intervals. put a strip of that negative under glass on top of a piece of paper. cover up all but 1 inch and make an exposure. then uncover another inch and make another 3 second exposure. and so on and so forth. develop normally. look at the film edge. pick the stripe that is not differnt from the next darker stripe(if you have a short strip you may have to start at 9 seconds and go from there) and note the time for that strip. make another test strip of the whole strip at that same printing time. look at it. if it is gray then you have either underexposed or underdeveloped (or both) negatives. good luck. kevin

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