I wasn't aware that any arista papers lithed properly. If it's rebranded Foma, only a couple of those will work. And when foma changed their gelatine, I think all their papers had non-lithable batches (a year or two back), but that was more globby blotchiness than (what looks like) coating errors on your example.
Keep in mind Freestyle has a great return policy, contact them, send them an example scan, they should refund or replace. Also, Foma 123 has been re-released in a lithable/bromoil-able emulsion as sort of a test project for Foma. It's available in 8x10 now, with 11x14 and 16x20 due June 30th. According to Freestyle, if it sells it may become a regular production item and has their money back guarantee as well.
Reports from the Facebook lith group have been promising, you might want to try a batch - I'm waiting for the larger sizes. Hopefully everyone will support this and Foma will make it regular stock or may do special batches.
Has anyone had problems Lith printing on Arista Ultra FB paper? I have had 3 different packs of paper print with very distinct lines across the print , or bands of much darker areas in the exact same place on every print . It's not the developer because I have gotten the same result with different batches of developer.
