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Fresson printing paper was commercially available in the early twentieth century. In Europe papers were available from 1900 until WWII and in America from 1927 to 1939. The process is largely proprietary and controlled by the Fresson family in France.

In the late nineteenth century there was an interest in producing a carbon printing paper that did not require cumbersome transferring of the carbon tissue for development, but still gave good mid-tones. The Artigue process was the first to answer this need in 1893 and the Fresson process was introduced in 1900 as an improvement. Fresson does not require transfer, but rather is developed using a slurry of sawdust and water in which the friction of the sawdust helped remove the soluble gelatin.