Lithography

Lithography

A printing technique, by which the image to be printed is fixed onto a stone or metal plate, by a combination of ink-absorbent and ink-repellent vehicles; invented by Alois Senefelder in 1798, as derived from "stone + write". Non-image areas may be coated with water, to repel the oily ink, or may have a surface, such as silicon, that repels ink. Chemical resists include electrostatic, and material resists include bimetal. See tusche, press.

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lithography

Printing & publishing; Publishing

A printing technique, by which the image to be printed is fixed onto a stone or metal plate, by a combination of ink-absorbent and ink-repellent vehicles; invented by Alois ...

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Art history; Visual arts

A printing process in which an image is represented on a flat surface that has been treated so that some areas retain ink, others repel it. Originally the flat surface was ...

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Art history; General art history

A printing process based on the antipathy of grease and water. The image is applied to a grained surface (traditionally stone but now usually aluminium) using a greasy medium: ...

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Printing & publishing; Paper

A generic term for any printing process in which the image area and the nonimage area exist on the same plane (plate) and are separated by chemical repulsion.

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Arts & crafts; Fine art

Uses the principle that oil and water don't mix as the basis of the printing process; a method of printing using plates whose image areas attract ink and whose non image areas ...

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Packaging; General packaging

A method of printing from a plane surface (as a smooth stone or metal plate) on which the image to be printed is ink-receptive (hydrophobic) and the non-printing area is ink ...

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A line or separation in the presentation of an image; see drop out. Also, a strip or stripe of color; see illustration. Also, a track or channel, as audio segment or computer ...

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A sequence of ordered items awaiting processing, especially for some electronic action in a computer system. See pagination, gang.

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An absorbent material made from plant pulp or fibrous substances, usually in thin sheets or leaves, dyed or bleached to a desired hue, pressed or polished into a desired texture, ...

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Rubber-coated pad, mounted on a cylinder of an offset press, that receives the inked image from the plate, and transfers it to the surface to be printed by the impression ...

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The language format used to develop and write document pages on the World Wide Web. Webpages are built with HTML codes or tags (qv) embedded into the text. HTML defines the ...

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