Introduction to Lith Printing

Can anyone recommend a starting point if I was interested in lith
printing? I have developed and printed b&W before, but would like to
know more about lith printing.

Are the chemicals more expensive, it is possible to purchase "kits", I
am based in the UK.

Thanks, Abi

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Can anyone recommend a starting point if I was interested in lith
printing? I have developed and printed b&W before, but would like to
know more about lith printing.

Are the chemicals more expensive, it is possible to purchase "kits", I
am based in the UK.

Thanks, Abi

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Can anyone recommend a starting point if I was interested in lith
printing? I have developed and printed b&W before, but would like to
know more about lith printing.

Are the chemicals more expensive, it is possible to purchase "kits", I
am based in the UK.

Thanks, Abi


Many, many ( many!) years ago, I did some playing with Kodalith material. I
used the Kodalith A-B developer to get black-and-white (no gray tones)
images. I also used Kodak Dektol (paper developer) to get very high contrast
images.

The Kodak material could be handled similarly to b&w enlarging paper. I made
enlargements on it with enlarger exposures nearly the same as with paper.

An interesting thing you can try is to make a 'lith print in a convenient
size, preferably of a contrasty subject. Take that lith print, and contact
print it onto another sheet of lith film. You now have a positive, and a
negative. Sandwich the two together, ever so slightly out of register. Print
that on photo paper, probably as a contact print, because it will be very
dense. (Or make yet a third 'lith from which to print.) You will get an
overall gray image with areas of different densities outlined.


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Ken Hart

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Can anyone recommend a starting point if I was interested in lith
printing? I have developed and printed b&W before, but would like to
know more about lith printing.

Are the chemicals more expensive, it is possible to purchase "kits", I
am based in the UK.

Thanks, Abi


Get the Fotospeed Lith starter kit. Includes chemicals, 10 sheets of
paper suitable for lith as well as some basic instructions. See
www.fotospeed.com/lith.htm. Also available from most online suppliers
such as www.firstcall-photographic.co.uk, www.novadarkroom.com, etc.
Tim Rudman's book is still available but it's a bit out of date now.
Most of the papers he mentions are no longer available or have changed
their formulation. Still, it's a very interesting read.

Mike

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Can anyone recommend a starting point if I was interested in lith
printing? I have developed and printed b&W before, but would like to
know more about lith printing.

Are the chemicals more expensive, it is possible to purchase "kits", I
am based in the UK.

Thanks, Abi

A good place to start is with Tim Rudman's book on Alternative
printing and Lith printing. You can learn some more about them at
http://www.alternativephotography.co...es/art031.html


Also, do a web search for Tim Rudman.

--
Richard Knoppow

Mike wrote:

Tim Rudman's book is still available but it's a bit out of date now.
Most of the papers he mentions are no longer available or have changed
their formulation. Still, it's a very interesting read.

I forgot to mention that Fotospeed do a special offer if you buy Tim
Rudman's Lith printing book with their Lith starter kit. See
www.fotospeed.com for details.

Mike

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... would like to know more about lith printing.
Thanks, Abi


Search this NG for, wall's normal hydroquinone .
Search this NG for, semiquinone . From Google search
for, "lith formulas" .
As you will see Homebrew Lith Developer is as easy as
one, two, three. One, hydroquinone, two sodium sulfite, and
three, sodium carbonate.
As mentioned by one of the posters, Ascorbic Acid will
work in place of the sulfite. I've not tried that. Dan

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"Richard Knoppow" wrote:

wrote:
Can anyone recommend a starting point if I was interested in lith
printing? I have developed and printed b&W before, but would like to
know more about lith printing.

Are the chemicals more expensive, it is possible to purchase "kits", I
am based in the UK.

Thanks, Abi

A good place to start is with Tim Rudman's book on Alternative
printing and Lith printing. You can learn some more about them at
http://www.alternativephotography.co...es/art031.html


Also, do a web search for Tim Rudman.

Tim Rudman also has some articles on lith printing on

http://www.unblinkingeye.com

-tony

Originally Posted by

Can anyone recommend a starting point if I was interested in lith
printing? I have developed and printed b&W before, but would like to
know more about lith printing.

Are the chemicals more expensive, it is possible to purchase "kits", I
am based in the UK.

Thanks, Abi

In my recent and limited experience:
Fotospeed LD20 developer is the smallest and most economical pack to get. It has instructions for lith printing supplied.
Most reliable paper for me is Forte Polywarmtone Fibre Based. Get it from silverprint.co.uk. Excellent results every time so far.
Kentmere Kentona and Art Classic are also good but a bit more difficult to control.
Ilford MG warmtone is a lovely paper but don't bother to lith it.
Tim Rudman's book is indispensable, even though the technical info is out of date. He has updated it at: http://www.alternativephotography.co...es/art031.html
There is also his excellent overview: http://www.alternativephotography.co...lithprint.html
A safelight torch is needed to check progress, or in my case, a Jessops red safelight that's not been fixed down.
A CD player in the darkroom makes those 20 minute developing times pass by a bit quicker...

After the list of list developers at
http://unblinkingeye.com/Articles/LithDev/lithdev.html, the notes state that
acetone can be substituted for formaldehyde in the formulas. Would this be a
1:1 substitution by volume?
-Lew