YELLOW-CARAMEL COLORED PRINTS WITH TRI-X

I just got my tri-x prints back from the lab and they all have an even yellowish/caramel tint to them. I didn't notice until I compared them to random tri-x images online, all of which have more of a grey hue. Is the difference in the way they are seen online or is it the developer that the lab used? This is my first roll of Tri-x.

The roll was shot on a Minolta x-700 with two different lenses. MD 50mm f2 and MC Rokkor-x PF 135mm f2.8
Shot @Iso 800
Asked the lab to push to 800
Used a #12 yellow filter on about half of the roll and no filter on the other half.

If they're paper prints it's the printing. The negatives should look grey.

sepiareverb said:

If they're paper prints it's the printing. The negatives should look grey.

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They are in fact paper printed. They don't look bad at all. More vintage looking than I was expecting but clear with good contrast, except for a few that I overexposed.

They may have been printed on color paper

Prof_Pixel said:

They may have been printed on color paper

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Most likely.
Very few labs use the black and white papers designed for high volume production operations. Instead, they scan the negatives and then try to print them with a neutral colour balance on colour paper.

To clarify the title of this thread the particular B&W film has absolutely nothing to do with the print color. Unfortunately a few people scan posts and don't thoroughly read them. Then they come away with the wrong idea.

Negatives were printed on RA-4 color paper, it's not a bad look, but if the lab had taken a bit more care with the printing the images would be much more neutral in tone. Send your next roll to the Ilford USA lab, this lab still makes silver gelatin prints from film and digital files. And yes, they process all brands of film.

It's not as easy as some would think to obtain a completely neutral print on color paper from a B&W negative. Printing is automated with little personal attention. For best results you need to have prints made on B&W paper.

Years ago when I worked at a lab, we mass printed black and white negatives all the time on color paper all the time for speed reasons only. You simply added above the negative a clear unexposed, processed negative (the clear orange part) and that makes the orange/caramel color stated go away. You could make pretty nice B&W prints, but not like a true silver print. A tweak of cyan or magenta one way or the other would get you cool or warm tone also.