paper lithography

[Shannon Stoney <shannonstoney@earthlink.net>]

>>Thanks Gary. Is there a process by which one can print a continuous tone
>>(no half-tone) photo from such a lithographic stone?
>>

>
> The military tried that out and yes you can do it but it's very tricky work
> from what I hear. I've seen the results which didn't look too bad but don't
> know the details of it or even what they called that specific process.

There is also a process called paper lithography, where you zerox a
photograph (or whatever) and use gum arabic to make the image transfer to
print-making paper.  The zerox has to be fresh, made not longer than two or
three hours before you print.

--shannon