Re: Re:LITH-printing

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

Hi Gary,
This process of lith printing is quite different to the lithographic
process, although the names are awfully confusing. This process does not use
lith film, just lith developer as a paper developer to utilise infectious
development. It is highly diluted and the paper heavily overexposed. The
print is snatched before full development to give very fine grained
colourful highlights and prints 'hard in the shadows but soft in the
highlights'.
It can be very soft and beautiful or punchy and graphic depending how it is
used.

Tim


-----Original Message-----
From: Gary Beasley <beasleyglb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: infrared@xxxxx <infrared@xxxxx>
Date: 29 November 1998 07:41
Subject: Re:LITH-printing


>>Date: Sat, 28 Nov 1998 14:24:58 -0600
>>From: Jaap Los <imagefotografie@xxxxxx>
>>Subject: LITH-printing
>>
>>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
>>
>I used to make a living at the lithographic process as a camera operator at
>my hometown newspaper. Lithographic films and papers are a special high
>contrast copy material and the lith developer brings out the nearly two
>tone results that people know as litho. The lith developer results in a
>loss of film speed on anything it's used on, so testing should be done to
>determine what you will get out of it. The best results are had with
>materials that are already high contrast such as single grade high contrast
>papers and lith materials. The highest contrast can be had by printing onto
>lith film and then contact printing to another piece of film or paper
>depending on the results desired.  A form of bas relief can be achieved by
>contacting positives made with a short and a long exposure on film and
>swapping pos and negs from the two, aligning and contacting the set to
>paper. Experimentation is mandatory and quite fun at this point.
>Nowadays you can also get these effects with any scanned image by
>converting to B&W and the reducing the bit level until it looks interesting
>enough. The effect is in theory the same as what litho film does to an
>image but asthetically not the same in appearance most of the time.
>Litho developer can be had in a liquid concentrate that comes in two parts
>and unmixed lasts an incredibly long time. If you find you don't like
>playing with it you can save it and pass it on later to a friend or try it
>again on another image when you get bored.
>Gary Beasley
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