I'm making contact prints of my 8x10 b&w negs. The contacts do not look as sharp as the negs do. I'm taking the neg out of the neg sleeve. My contact printer is a wood board, with an 11x14 size piece of regular glass on top. I place the paper on the board, put the neg on, and put the glass on top. I don't hold the glass or touch it during the exposure. I have no foam or padding on the wood board.

Open to ideas.

Also, do those contact printers with the wood frame like Zone VI used to make work better?

Thanks.

-Rob