Lith-Print

Lith-Print is a cost effective photographic printing process that adopts the Black & White printing technique on a photographic paper with lithographic developer. Lith-Print involves a highly overexposed method on a suitable black and white paper. The overexposing is in conjunction with two or three stops. The last procedure involves the partial development of the black and white paper in quite a highly diluted lith developer.

Though the lith-print is an inexpensive way of print, the process of lith-print cannot be relied upon and can be very time consuming and spoiling. The outcome is generally a sandy print with black shades and soft fragile highlights.

The materials required for lith-print are basically negative and print paper. Negatives of normal full range suffice the purpose. For further improvement of lith-print quality one may try out infrared negatives. The color negatives serve quite a fine quality of lith-print as well.

The papers used for lith-print are generally the 'Lith Paper' which are dedicated for the purpose. The normal writing papers work quite fine for the purpose of lith-print. But it should be taken into account primarily that all papers do not produce the same color and neither do they all respond to toners in the same fashion. The use of different papers and negatives thus give lith-print of unique finish to the different ones.