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lithography

DEFINITIONS OF: lithography

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n the act of making a lithographic print

Type of:
printmaking
artistic design and manufacture of prints as woodcuts or silkscreens

n a method of planographic printing from a metal or stone surface

Types:
photolithography
a planographic printing process using plates made from a photographic image
chromolithography
single- or multi-color lithography
offset lithography
offset printing by lithography
Type of:
planographic printing, planography
the process of printing from a surface on which the printing areas are not raised but are ink-receptive (as opposed to ink repellent)
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