Definitions for "Chromolithography"
Lithography adapted to printing in inks of various colors.
Color printing from multiple impositions of lithographic stones or similar lithographic printing surfaces. A process of illustration that reached its zenith in the mid-Nineteenth century.
A colour-printing process in which separate printing plates are used to apply each component colour allowing a full range of colour tones to be achieved with only four plates red, blue, yellow and black; Lithographic printing in colours using separate stones or plates for the various colours with some colours printed over others. Also called colour lithography or four-colour printing.