One of the four basic printmaking families, this refers to prints made from a smooth plane. This term is seldom used when naming printmaking techniques, but this is the family of two very common forms of printmaking: lithography and monotype.
A method for printing ink onto paper, where the image sits on the same surface as the printing plate. The image area is greased to attract ink, while the rest of the plate attracts water and repels ink. As the paper is pressed onto the flat surface of the plate, it picks up ink from the greasy image areas and a small bit of water from blank areas. This is the printing process used in lithography and offset lithography.
Image and non-image areas are printed on the same plate. Image areas receive ink. Non-image areas repel ink.
The design is created on a flat surface which has no perceptible variation in depth. The image is created on the surface of a stone or plate which is altered chemically (as in lithography) rather than dimensionally (i.e. by carving out or incising into).
A print taken from a level surface (lithograph or silk screen).
Images are produced on a flat printing surface, using chemicals to adhere ink to areas of the surface. lithography is the preeminent example of planographic printing.
One of four traditional categories of printing; the ink is transferred from a flat surface. Lithography is an example.
Printing from a flat surface. See lithography.
Printing from an entirely flat surface as in lithography.
The process to print impressions from a smooth surface rather than creating incised or relief areas on the plate. The term was devised to describe lithography.
A type of printmaking where the ink is transferred to paper from a flat surface.