Abstract: A process for pigmenting wood, which comprises treating wood in succession: a) with a solution comprising from 0.01 to 80% by weight, based on the solution, of a compound of the formula A(B)x  (I), in which x is an integer from 1 to 8, A is the radical of a chromophore of the quinacridone, anthraquinone, perylene, indigo, quinophthalone, indanthrone, isoindolinone, isoindoline, dioxazine, azo, phthalocyanine or diketopyrrolopyrrole series which is attached to x groups B via one or more heteroatoms, these heteroatoms being selected from the group consisting of N, O and S and forming part of the radical A, B is hydrogen or a group of the formula  at least one group B not being hydrogen and, if x is a number from 2 to 8, the groups B being identical or different, and L is any desired group suitable for solubilization; and from 0.05 to 5% by weight, based on the solution, of a salt of the formula Kat+.An−  (II), Kat+.