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Greetings all! Im wish to embark on the lith trail, im looking at the best papers to use, consensus seems to be fomatone MG is the leader but I wonder which performs better for lith printing the glossy or the matte version?
I generally dislike glossy papers but I know brilliance is improved with glossy and I have read a few reports that some matte papers do not function as well with lith because they sometimes require hardening beforehand, is this true???
many thanks for any advice
Mark
 

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It is likely your glossy or matt preference regarding traditional black & white prints would equally apply to lith prints. For me, one of the strong appeals of a lith print is its softness, which is kind of contradictory to a glossy paper. Which sort of sadly means, if I find a scene I know I will do in lith, there is no reason to capture it with a 4 x 5 negative or a medium format negative, but in 35 mm actually works to my advantage. However, you know the bottom line answer (to which Foma would certainly agree) - the only way for you to know for sure is to make the same image on both types of paper.
 
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