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.

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Tim Rudman's book is still available but it's a bit out of date now.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

  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.com/articles/art031.html

    Also, do a web search for Tim Rudman.

--
Richard Knoppow
dickburk@ix.netcom.com

  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

abi_news@lycos.com Wrote:

In my recent and limited experience:
Fotospeed LD20 developer is the smallest and most economical pack t
get. It has instructions for lith printing supplied.
Most reliable paper for me is Forte Polywarmtone Fibre Based. Get i
from silverprint.co.uk. Excellent results every time so far.
Kentmere Kentona and Art Classic are also good but a bit more difficul
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 i
out of date. He has updated it at
http://www.alternativephotography.com/articles/art031.html
There is also his excellent overview
http://www.alternativephotography.com/process_lithprint.html
A safelight torch is needed to check progress, or in my case, a Jessop
red safelight that's not been fixed down.
A CD player in the darkroom makes those 20 minute developing times pas
by a bit quicker..

--
herb10660

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

(sorry for the duplicate post)