AuntiPode wrote:
Perhaps it was exposed and developed to make contact prints on printing out paper which requires a negative with very high contrast, as I seem to recall. Printing out paper contact prints were quite popular back in the day.
In addition to printing out paper, contact print paper was very slow and came in Grade 0. Printing out paper was meant for proofing, but you could actually run them through fixer to save the image. There was some bleaching, so the print had to be dark.
