Lith Developer Questions

[craicfein]

I don't think Ilford multigrade is suitable for lith printing. There is a list of papers and their attributes when developed in lith at alternativephotography.com.

 

[Jarvman]

I'm going to have to get some of the fotospeed stuff from silverprint I reckon. More money again!

 

[Shakey]

Jarvman, i'm assuming your at college and if you are just make sure that the stop is actually stop and not water, like my sixth form uses otherwise your need to buy some as well or you could use the stop from film processing which i did. Just letting you know as that's one problem that i came across.

 

[dida]

Just found this thread. Maybe, it is not clear here if Travis uses Fomabrom - fixed grade paper, or Foma Variant III - new VC paper. They differ strongly and gives very different lith results. I tried them both and found Variant as very creativity fatten paper r.

 

[Jarvman]

Jarvman, i'm assuming your at college and if you are just make sure that the stop is actually stop and not water, like my sixth form uses otherwise your need to buy some as well or you could use the stop from film processing which i did. Just letting you know as that's one problem that i came across.

Nah, it's all good, they've got stop. They're not as stingy as the college three of the poeple on the course came from where they washed films in fairy liquid. The problem happens when you're the only one lith printing from a small tray on the end and accidentally dunk it into the regular dev instead of the stop 2 trays along! This only happened once and I'm printing from home now.

 

[Bob Carnie]

Ilford Warmtone liths quite lovely.
I have tried the MG4 with very little luck.

Is plain old Ilford multigrade suitable for lith printing? What are the results like? Any good?

 

[Thomas Bertilsson]

I would agree with that. But I have to cook the hell out of them in selenium to get a pleasant tone afterwards. It's worth the effort though because the tonal scale is superb. Without selenium I get a green/mustard tone to the print, which can be effective for things like a landscape, but I still prefer the slight tint to the red scale of the spectrum selenium gives.

The regular MGIV just isn't suited for lith I think, unless you bleach a regular print and re-develop in lith. Who has time?!

- Thomas

Ilford Warmtone liths quite lovely.
I have tried the MG4 with very little luck.