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The art or process of putting designs or writing, with a greasy material, on stone, and of producing printed impressions therefrom. The process depends, in the main, upon the antipathy between grease and water, which prevents a printing ink containing oil from adhering to wetted parts of the stone not covered by the de…

Lithography adapted to printing in inks of various colors.

The art or process of producing photolithographs.

A branch of lithography in which impressions from printers' types are transferred to stone for reproduction. -- Ty`po*lith`o*graph"ic (#), a.

r process of producing, and printing from, aluminium plates, after the manner of ordinary lithography. -- A*lu`mi*no*graph"ic (#), a.

A process in lithography by which a writing or drawing is transferred from paper to stone. Ure.

of the fact that prepared bitumen is rendered insoluble by exposure to light, as in photolithography.

One who is engaged in chromolithography.

Pertaining to, or made by, chromolithography.

c negatives to hardened gelatin plates from which impressions are produced on paper as by lithography.

To trace on stone by the process of lithography so as to transfer the design to paper by printing; as, to lithograph a design; to lithograph a painting. See Lithography.

One who lithographs; one who practices lithography.

Of or pertaining to lithography; made by lithography; as, the lithographic art; a lithographic picture. Lithographic limestone (Min.), a compact, fine-grained limestone, obtained largely from the Lias and Oölite, esp. of Bavaria, and extensively used in lithography. -- Lith`o*graph"ic*al*ly, adv.

Same as Photolithography.

A kind of lithography by which the effect of a tinted drawing is produced, as if made with India ink.

A substitute for lithography, in which metallic plates are used instead of stone. Knight.

To produce (a picture, a copy) by the process of photolithography.

One who practices, or one who employs, photolithography.

Of or pertaining to photolithography; produced by photolithography.

A process, analogous to photolithography, for reproducing photographed impressions transferred to zinc plate.