Just made a couple of test prints in the darkroom. Turns out the paper I picked the other week is fogged, most likely due to heat. The package was sealed so that’s all I can figure.
But on the plus side of the ledger, everything else worked. The enlarger worked, the chemicals all did their jobs. So now just to find some paper that hasn’t been abused. Kinda cool to watch the image come up out of the soup . . .