Re: LITH-printing

[Normunds Saumanis <normunds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jaap Los wrote:
> 
> To all,
> Is there anybody who has experience in the technics of LITH black/white
> printing. You need ordinary b/w negatives, special LITH developer and
> LITH blue sensitised printing paper . The idea is, that the paper will
> be heavily overexposed (at least by a factor 3). It then takes a long
> developing time for the image to appear. Once it appears things are
> stepped up very quickly and if you leave the paper too long in the
> developer you get a very high contrast and grains like sugar lumps. So
> you'll have to 'snatch' the paper out of the dish at the right moment
> and throw it into the stopbath. The colour of the image varies between
> white-rose-pink-brownish pink-black-deep black depending on the time
> you  leave the paper in the developer. In all you can get very beautiful
> images and very interesting effects. I want to try out this proces on IR
> negatives! Anybody ever tried this?

Yes, I have recently started to explore lith printing.  I found that a
lot of my earlier non-IR negatives have too low contrast for lith
printing. They need something like grade 3.5 paper contrast for a
conventional print.  IR and more contrasty non-IR negs work well, Konica
750 IR negs are especially easy to print (for me at least). So far my
biggest practical problem has been keeping the developer at 30-40
degrees C throughout the printing session.

There is some good info on lith printing in Tim Rudman's book "The
Photographer's Master Printing Course".  He should have a new book out
very soon that deals specifically with lith printing.

Normunds
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