I'm fairly new to Foma paper. Yesterday, I printed the first negative that required a significant contrast boost, portrait in soft light. From grade 2 I went up by half-grades, using Ilford filters. Contrast increase from 2-3 was a slim half grade, and progress was even slower above that, with a 4½ print hardly distinguishable from the 3 and 3½.

The only particular unusual feature of my set-up is that I use a coldlight head without the customary 40Y filtration. My film development and printing on Ilford are tweaked to work this way, and, on Ilford papers, quite successfully.

Anyone else have some relevant experience here?