Re: LITH-printing

["Tim Rudman" <tim.rudman@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I've just (1 hour) returned to the UK from Florida so I'm a bit  sleep
deprived - but delighted to see so much interest about lith printing since
Ive been away!

To Jaap'
I have a good deal of experience of lith printing. You will find it is just
fabulous for Infrared above all else. It will give you wonderful delicate
control of those highlights, and separate independent control of shadows.

I have a new book on printing just out. This may be of interest to you? If
so let me know.

Did you have a particular question?

To Normunds'

You dont need to print so hot  wilith printing. It can be very useful for
certain papers and colour effects, it can shorten dev times, but you can get
lovely results at 'normal' temperatures.

Tim

-----Original Message-----
From: Normunds Saumanis <normunds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: infrared@xxxxx <infrared@xxxxx>
Date: 28 November 1998 15:39
Subject: Re: LITH-printing


>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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