Any process in which the printing is done from a plane surface - conventionally done through a photochemical process where the image area carries ink and the non-image area carries water

Printing Process based on the unmixability of water and grease; usually done on limestone or grained metal plates.

Lithography is a method of printing using plates whose image areas attract ink and whose non-image areas repel ink. The images are first printed onto a rubber blanket and then offset to paper.

a printing process in which both the image and non-image areas are on the same plane. It is based on the principle that oil (ink) and water do not mix. The image is first transferred to a rubber blanket and then to paper.

Offset Lithography is the standard printing process for magazines, books, stationery, etc. Short run magazines, books, stationery, etc.are printed by duplicating presses or copy machines as opposed to being "litho'ed".

A method of printing where the image areas of a surface accept ink and non-image areas repel ink.

The process of printing from a dampened, flat surface using greasy ink, based on the principle of the mutual repulsion of oil and water.

a term for any printing process in which the image and the non-image areas are on the same plane (level) and is differentiated by chemical repulsion.

A printing method in which the printing and non-printing areas exist on the same plane, as opposed to a bi-leveled reproduction. Beginning| Back to L| Go to N| End

The process whereby colorful graphic images are printed on paper, metal sheets, or vinyl for making into lunch boxes.

A method of surface printing in which images are imparted upon a two-dimensional substrate using focused beams of light or energy.

a printing process based on the principle of the natural aversion of water to grease. The photographically prepared printing plate when being made is treated chemically so that the image will accept ink and reject water.

A planographic printmaking technique based on the antipathy of oil and water. The image is drawn with a grease crayon or painted with tusche on a stone or grained aluminum plate. The surface is then chemically treated and dampened so that it will accept ink only where the crayon or tusche has been used.

A printing process based on the antipathy of grease and water. The printing elements used are limestone and aluminum or zinc plates, grained to varying degrees of roughness. The image can be produced by photochemical and transfer processes, or be drawn using lithographic crayons and pencils, tusche, chalk, and various grease, lacquer, or synthetic materials. The stone is then washed with a solution, thus chemically producing water-receptive non-printing areas and grease-receptive image areas. The drawing grease is cleaned from the printing surface. A roller bearing greasy printing ink is then rolled over the surface, with the ink adhering only to drawn grease-receptive image areas. Finally, paper is laid on top of the stone or plate, which is passed through a lithography press for transfer. Lithography is often described as a surface or planographic printing process in order to distinguish it from the relief and intaglio processes.

The art of producing printed matter from a metal plate on which the design to be printed accepts printing ink and the other parts of the plate being ink repellent.

A planographic (flat surface) printing process using two chemically different areas on the plate: one receptive to ink, the other receptive to fountain solution.

Printing process where image areas and non-image areas are separated chemically.

Printing process whereby the image area is separated from the non-image area by means of chemical repulsion.

Lithography is the conventional method of print production today, generating smooth, rich colour and soft transitions. Ink is applied to plates made from metal, plastic or paper. The ink is transferred to a blanket and then to paper.

Invented by Alois Senefelder in 1789, a method for producing printing forms for stone printing. Using special ink or chalk, the printing copy is transferred directly onto a smooth-ground block of carbonate of lime (calcium carbonate – CaCO3). The stone block is moistened before being inked up with oil-based printing ink. The printing areas then take up the oil-based ink, while the unchanged limestone repels it. The word lithographs (“lithos” for short) is also used colloquially for copy for offset printing (screened images, line engravings).

A high-speed planographic printing process where an image is photo-engraved on a flat plate, chemicals are applied to keep water on the non-print part of the plate, and oil-based inks are applied to the image areas of the plate. The ink is then offset to a blanket, and then to the paper.

Originally, a method of printing in which an image is drawn with a grease crayon on a smooth slab of porous tone. After the drawing is made, the artist or printer treats the entire surface with solutions of gum arabic and nitric acid. The gum arabic simultaneously surrounds the grease and chemically prevents ink from adhering to the undrawn areas; the nitric acid helps the grease and the gum arabic penetrate the pores of the stone. Because the older method brings paper and printing plate into direct contact with one another, the plate suffers a certain degree of wear as each copy is pulled and this is why low-number prints and artist proofs traditionally have been more desirable than copies made toward the end of the press run.

The process of marking or removing part of substrate by "masking" the area that does not need to be removed or marked and then applying some substance such as ink or an acid that marks or removes the substrate that was not "masked".

The design to be printed is drawn with a crayon, pen, or brush on the polished surface of a flat stone, usually limestone. The design is then hardened chemically, moistened, and inked. The ink adheres to the portion of the surface area which has been drawn on, so that the design transfers to the paper in the printing process.

(sc) process of pattern transfer; when light is utilized, it is termed "photolithography," and when patterns are small enough to be measured in microns, it is referred to as "microlithography."

A process based on the natural repulsion between the grease and water. Image is drawn on stone, aluminum or zinc plates, or both with greasy drawing materials. The image is then chemically processed so that the drawn area accepts grease (ink) and the non - image area water. Unlike intaglio printing the image and non-image areas are both on the same plane or level.

Process of printing using a flat-surfaced plate, the image on which is transferred to a blanket then to paper. (See offset printing).

A printing process in which the image to be printed is rendered on a flat surface, as on sheet zinc or aluminum, and treated to retain ink while the nonimage areas are treated to repel ink.

relies on the incompatibility of grease and water. Using greasy crayon or a brush loaded with tusche (lithographic ink), the artist draws or paints an image on the surface of Bavarian limestone, or more commonly today, a specially prepared metal plate. When the surface is dampened with water and inked with a roller, ink adheres to the oily drawing and is repelled by the wet areas. In the offset method an image is transferred ("offset") from the plate to an intermediary roller, usually a rubber cylinder, then printed. Offset prints can be made quickly and in large quantities, and the image is not reversed as it would be in a traditional lithograph. Champagne and Cold Beer, from the Facades series, illustrate both printing methods.

The design is drawn or painted on the polished, or grained, flat surface of a stone, usually Bavarian limestone, with a greasy crayon or ink. The design is chemically fixed on the stone with a weak solution of acid and gum arabic. In printing, the stone is flooded with water which is absorbed everywhere except where repelled by the greasy ink. Oil-based printer's ink is then rolled on the stone, which is repelled in turn by the watersoaked areas and accepted only by the drawn design. A piece of paper is laid on the stone and it is run through the press with light pressure, the final print showing neither a raised nor embossed quality but lying entirely on the surface of the paper. The design may be divided among several stones, properly registered, to produce, through multiple printings, a lithograph in more than one color. A transfer lithograph employs the same technique, but the design is drawn on special transfer paper and is later mechanically transferred to the stone. Great French artists such as Daumier and Delacroix, and later by Degas, Toulouse-Lautrec, Picasso, Braque and Miro dominate the early history of lithography.

The process of printing with a greasy surface and water. The artist traces the design with a greasy material on a slab of limestone or a plate of porous metal. The stone or metal is then soaked in water, next a roller covered in a greasy ink is passed over the surface. The ink will only adhere to the greasy design. The print is made by placing the sheet on the slab or plate and run through a press. This is called chromolithography when colored prints are made.

A printing process, using a plane surface, such as smooth stone or metal, on which the image to be printed is ink-receptive and the blank area ink-repellent. The design is drawn with an oily crayon, is then fixed, the entire surface is moistened and the applied printing ink adheres only to the oily lines of the drawing. The design is then transferred easily in a press to a piece of paper.

the act of making a lithographic print

Method of printing from a prepared flat stone, metal or plastic plate. A drawing is made with a greasy crayon and rinsed with water. Ink is applied to the surface sticking to the greasy surface, but not the watery portions. A separate drawing is needed for each color.

a printing process using flat surface plates that is based on the principle that oil and water don't mix. The image to be lithographed is created on the plate with greasy material that repels water. Water is run over the plate, and the non-image areas absorb it. When the oily ink hits the plate, it's attracted to the similarly greasy image, and repelled by the rest of the wet plate. When paper is pressed onto the plate, it picks up the ink (and a bit of the water).

Printing from stone with the image on the surface. Used for making reproductions, as in photolithography.

Printmaking method in which an image is drawn, using greasy ink or litho crayons, directly on the flat surface on a limestone or aluminum plate treated to accept ink and repel water.

An inked impression is made on a rubber cylinder and transferred to paper. Also known as offset.

(also known as offset lithographic printing) a printing process by which the image areas of the printing plate attract ink while the non-images do not. The image is transferred to an 'impression blanket' which places the ink onto the paper or board.

A printing process in which the image areas are separated from the non-image areas by means of chemical repulsion.

A dry, printing process where ink and water repel each other. A flat printing image is produced.

A printing process using a plate that has been chemically treated so that the image to be printed is receptive to ink, while blank areas repel ink. Used primarily for fine reproduction, including labels for fiberboard boxes.

A term describing a printing process in which the image area and the non-image area coexist on the same plane, in contract to letterpress (printing from raised type).

the process, similar to printing a photograph, where energyby is selectively passed or blocked by a mask transferring the mask pattern into an energy sensitive material, the type of lithography is named based on the type of energy used (optical wavelengths, ultraviolet, x-ray, etc).

is a planographic process in which the design is drawn or painted with greasy chalk or ink on the printing surface, traditionally stone. The drawing is then fixed on the stone by applying a solution of water-soluble resin and acid. The surface is moistened and, as grease and water do not combine, the drawn areas repel the water and the untouched parts absorb it. A greasy ink is then applied over the surface with a roller. The wet parts reject the ink while the greasy parts attract it. Paper is then placed over the surface of the stone, and both are passed through a press. In a transfer lithograph, the design is drawn on paper and then transferred to the printing surface. The drawing is made with lithographic chalk or ink on prepared transfer paper. The paper is dampened and laid face down on the printing surface. Both are passed through the press and gradually the paper soaks off, leaving the greasy drawing adhered to the printing surface.

Printing method that produces large quantities of Poster paper in full color.

printing process in which the image is applied to the surface of a stone or metal plate through the use of greasy materials such as litho crayon or tuche. The surface is treated chemically to accept the printing ink while the non printing areas are kept wet to repel the ink.

The basic principle of lithography is the antipathy of oil and water. The design is drawn on stone or plate with a crayon or greasy ink. The design is fixed chemically with an acid and gum Arabic solution. After processing, the plate or stone is moistened with water, and subsequently inked. The ink is repelled by the moist areas and only accepted by the design. The plate is printed either directly (producing an image in reverse) or on an offset press containing a rubber roller that acts as an intermediary, picking up the design as it passes over the plate and transferring it to paper, thus producing an impression corresponding to the original design.

Printing from a Plano graphic plate, which transfers the image to a rubber blanket and offsets it to paper.

A form of printing invented in 1799. The surface of a plate is treated chemically to accept the inked image which istransferred to paper directly or via an intermediate substrate, as in the case of offset lithography.

Also offset lithography - litho printing. Printing which uses a flat surface for transferring the image. A metal plate is treated so that water will adhere every place except where the image is located. Water is applied and then ink. The moist areas refuse to accept ink. Next this plate transfers its image to a rubber cylinder which finally transfers it to the paper. By contrast, letterpress printing uses a raised surface and gravure printing uses a sunken or depressed surface.

A planographic process in which the ink is transferred from a flat surface that has been chemically prepared to accept water in some areas. The other areas will accept the ink.

Technical term for what many people call flat printing. Lithography creates watercolor effects and pale background designs. The ink is literally flat with a matte finish.

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 nonimage areas repel ink. Nonimage areas may be coated with water to repel the oily ink or may have a surface, such as silicon, that repels ink.

Also known as offset or flat print. Printing you're probably most familiar with where an inked impression is made on a rubber cylinder and transferred to paper. The printing appears as a flat image.

A common method of printing stamps and cachets in which the design is transferred from a smooth plate by selective inks which wet only the design portion of the printing plate.

A printing process, a branch of Planography, involving employment of stones or metal plates whose printing surfaces are partly water repellent and ink repellent. The process is especially adapted to fine half tine color effects or smooth ink solids.

A printing method where the artist draws with a greasy crayon on a plate, usually stone or metal. Ink sticks to the greased areas, allowing impressions to be made with a press. In color lithography plates are made for each color.

A method of printing in which the ink lies flat on the surface of the printing plate, that is planographic, as opposed to the typographic or relief, method in which the ink lies above the surface, and the intaglio or engraved method, in which the ink lies below the surface. This is accomplished by masking off the area of the design with an oily substance which repels water. Wetting the plate moistens all the areas that are not to be inked, but not the design. When ink is applied to the moistened plate it only adheres to the design and is repelled by the water covered areas. The plate is then pressed against paper to transfer the design. Direct lithography prints without the use of an intermediate roller or blanket. Indirect lithography uses an intermediate rubber blanket or cylinder, and is often referred to as "offset lithography" or simply, "offset". Offset printing is of prime importance to U.S. collectors since many important Washington Franklin stamps were printed using this method.

a method of printing invented in the late 18th century, a drawing is made on a flat plate with a grease-based crayon and then washed off. Ink is then applied and it adheres to the crayon but rinses clean from the rest of the plate. Covering the plate with paper and pressing lightly to transfer the ink then make a print or lithograph.

surface printing method of thin flat layer of ink.

Method of printing using a chemically-coated plate whose image areas attract ink and whose non-image areas repel ink.

Printing from a flat surface with a design area that is ink-receptive. The area that is not to print is ink-repellent. The process is based on the principle that an oil-based design surface will attract oily ink.

The process of printing from a flat plate.

A process in which a masked pattern is projected onto a photoresist coating that covers a substrate.

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

The original and most usual form of planographic printing. Otherwise known as surface printing, it is the most common method of creating original prints. It is based on the natural rejection of water by oil or grease. The modern version includes the off-set principle and enables printers to produce large runs of closely controlled off-set lithographs. Today, most lithographic plates are produced by photo-mechanical methods.

A process of making prints by drawing on limestone or a zinc plate with a greasy crayon. The stone or plate is then wetted and a greasy ink is applied that adheres only to the drawn lines. A damp paper is applied to the stone, and a special press transfers the ink onto the paper to produce the final print.

The process in semiconductor manufacturing in which chip designs are projected onto silicon wafers.

Printing technique in which image areas on a lithographic stone or metal plate are chemically treated to accept ink and repel water, while non-image areas repel ink and retain water. One plate must be drawn for each color in the finished print.

Lithography (from the Greek lithos = stone and graphein = to write) is a process of printing from a plane surface on which the image to be printed is ink-receptive and the blank area ink-repellent.

A high quality printing process

A form of printing first used for maps early in the 19th-century. The image is printed from a stone or other material on which ink adheres only to specially treated areas.

printing from a flat surface on which the area that is not to be printed repels the ink. One form of lithography is direct lithography, in which printing occurs without the use of an intermediate roller or blanket. Some early Post Office Seals were printed from such direct lithography. Indirect lithography uses an intermediate roller or blanket, and is called offset. see Offset Lithography.

A printing process using plates made from photographs. Offset lithography is simply called "offset" in most cases.

The process used to transfer patterns onto wafers.

A printing method based on the principle that oil and water do not mix, but remain separate when added together. A flat polished stone was used when lithography was first invented. Modern lithography uses a printing master instead of a stone. The printing master is similar to a printing plate except it is made of thin flexible sheets of metal or fiber so it can be wrapped around a cylinder or drum that rotates. The printing master can be made by using photography, where the image is divided up into two kinds of surfaces. One surface contains clear areas that attract water, but repel oil-based inks. The other surface contains areas that attract the oil-based ink, but repel water. When printed, the complete image is formed.

Printing process. The design is drawn on the printing plate with grease based materials the surface wetted and ink applied. The ink is repelled by the water and drawn to the grease.

One of a class of processes termed planographic, in which the printing surface (stone, zinc or a similar smooth-surfaced material) is not incised but instead treated with a medium that selectively absorbs (or repels) printing ink.

A printing process in which sections containing type, illustrations and photography attract the printing ink and non-image areas, treated with dampening solution, repel ink.

a printing process that produces an image from a flat dampened plate using greasy ink, based on the principle that water and oil do not mix

The process of printing that utilizes flat inked surfaces to create the printed images.

Method of printing utilising oil and water to enable the ink to produce a printed image. Image areas are covered with oily ink and non-image areas use water to repel the ink. In combination with the offset printing technique - offset-litho - this is by far the most popular method of printing.

The process of putting designs or writing, with a greasy material, on a stone, and of producing printed impression there from. The original painting is photographed and the image is burned into four plates for a full color printing process. The ink comes from a roller on a printing press. High quality lithographs use a very fine dot screen on acid free paper with fade resistant inks.

The most common printed method in use today, lithography is based on the principle that oil and water don't mix. The image to be reproduced is created on a printing plate with greasy material that repels water. The plates are run wet so that oil-based inks adhere to the greasy parts of the plate, which are transferred to a blanket and pressed onto paper.

the art and process of creating an image upon a stone surface.

a planographic (surface) printing technique based on the repellence of grease and water. the image is drawn or painted with litho chalk or crayons on specially prepared limestone, zinc or aluminum. the surface is then moistened with water, which takes to the areas which have not been covered with chalk or crayon. the stone or plate is then treated with an oily ink, which is repelled by the damp areas, and adheres only to the image. paper is then pressed against the inked drawing to create a print. lithography is distinctive for its soft lines and blurry images.

The process of imprinting patterns on materials. Derived from Greek, the term lithography means literally "writing on stone.” Nanolithography refers to etching, writing, or printing at the microscopic level, where the dimensions of characters are on the order of nanometers (units of 10 -9 meter, or millionths of a millimeter).

a printing technique based on the phenomenon that grease and water repel each other. The original meaning of the term is "stone-drawing". In essence, lithography consists of drawing or making marks on a suitable printing surface (such as stone) in a greasy medium. The surface is then dampened- the water settles only on the unmarked areas. Ink is then applied with a roller, adhering only to the marked areas. Finally the printing surface and paper are run together through a scraper press, which transfers the ink to the paper. In practice lithographic operations are much more complicated than they sound here.

A printmaking process in which an image is established on stone or metal plate usually with grease-based materials. The surface of the printing element is prepared so that the image takes ink while the non-image areas repel it. metal leaf

The process of printing that utilizes flat inked surfaces that are chemically treated to print images

Originally a technology of printing with stone plates, today it is used to indicate printing resist patterns on silicon or other substrates.

A semiconductor manufacturing process in which the desired circuit pattern is projected onto a photoresist coating covering the silicon wafer. When the resist is developed, like an ordinary photograph, selected portions of the resist come off, thus exposing parts of the wafer for etching and diffusion.

The transfer of a pattern or image from one medium to another, such as from a wash to a wafer.

the transfer of a pattern from medium to another, for example, transferring a pattern from a mask or reticle to a wafer.

A method of printing which uses plates that contain image areas that attract ink and nonimage areas that repel ink. Nonimage areas may be coated with water to repel the oily ink or may have a surface, such as silicon, that repels ink.

A print made by drawing a design with oily crayon or other greasy substance on a porous stone or, later, a metal plate; the design is then fixed, the entire surtace is moistened, and the printing ink which is applied adheres only to the oily lines of the drawing. The design can then be transferred easily in a press to a piece of paper. Invented in 1796 by Aloys Senefelder.

An technique were the printing plate's image area is specially treated to accept only ink and the non-image area is specially treated to only accept water. See also: dry offset; gravure; offset gravure; offset printing.

Planographic process in which ink is applied selectively to the plate by chemically treating the image areas to accept ink and the non-image areas to accept water. Shortened to litho.

a printing process in which oil based ink is transferred from ink retaining areas on a treated plate to a substrate. Water is used to contain the ink in the required areas. In offset lithography the image is transferred first to a rubber blanket and then the substrate.

process used to transfer pattern from the mask/reticle to the layer of resist deposited on the surface of the wafer; kind of lithography depends on the wavelength of radiation used to expose resist: photolithography (or optical lithography) uses UV radiation, X-ray lithography uses X-ray, e-beam lithography uses electron bean, ion beam lithography uses ion beam.

In the graphic arts, a method of printing from a prepared flat stone, metal or plastic plate, invented in the late eighteenth century. A drawing is made on the stone or plate with a greasy crayon or tusche, and then washed with water. When ink is applied it sticks to the greasy drawing but runs off (or is resisted by) the wet surface allowing a print - a lithograph - to be made of the drawing. The artist, or other print maker under the artist's supervision, then covers the plate with a sheet of paper and runs both through a press under light pressure. For color lithography separate drawings are made for each color.

One of the four major divisions of printmaking. Lithography is a planographic process, dependent on the fact that oil and water don't mix. A stone or metal plate is drawn upon with a greasy substance. Then the surface is chemically etched so that some areas attract only greasy ink and nondrawn areas attract only water. The image is inked by alternately sponging and rolling the surface of the printing matrix. It is printed on a lithographic press.

The traditional planographic printing method which involves drawing or painting with greasy crayons or inks on a limestone block. The surface is then moistened with water. An oily ink is applied to the stone and adheres only to the drawing. The ink is repelled by the water which has soaked into the areas around the drawing. The print is pulled by pressing paper against the inked drawing, using a press. Variations of the technique are widely used in commercial reproductions. magenta A printer's name for red, in the four-color additive printing system which includes cyan, yellow and black. (8)

A printmaking process in which a drawing is made on stone or metal with greasy materials. The surface is prepared so that the image takes ink while the non-image areas repel it. The print is made with a lithographic press.

Artwork printed from a stone or metal plate or other flat surface. The artist uses a greasy substance to draw on the surface of the plate; only these greasy areas will accept ink. Once the plate is inked, high-quality paper is laid over it and the package is pulled through a press. To create a lithograph with a number of different colors, a number of different plates must be prepared and the paper must go through the press each time a new color is added. Lithographs are usually printed in editions of several hundred. Each print is considered a "multiple original" because the artist pulled each one from the press, or closely supervised the press operator. Each print is signed and numbered in the margin.

High volume, 4-colour separation, process ink based printing process. Commercially called offset lithography and is the quickest and commonest form of photomechanical reproduction. Artwork is scanned then separated in the CMYK colour channels onto 4 printing plates, printed in succession to create a full colour image. Separate colours can be added on a separate plate to create special effects such as gold ink or a varnished area that can not be made up from CMYK in the standard Pantone range. These are called spot colours. Artists still use offset and stone lithography to create artwork, but by hand are a much lengthier process. The basic technique for both methods is that grease repels water and these are the areas that will remain white, the rest of the areas will accept ink and therefore print. (See also planographic printing.)

Prints taken from a drawing done from a polished limestone or zinc or aluminum plates. The drawing is done with greasy crayons, pens, or pencils. A solution containing gum arabic and dilute nitric acid is washed on the stone (or plate). This solution fixes the design in place. The entire plate surface is washed with water and then inked. Print paper is applied and sent through a press, transferring the image of the stone (or plate) to the paper.

A planographic process of printing from a flat stone or metal plate by a method based on the repulsion between grease and water. The design is put on the surface with a greasy material, and then water and printing ink are successfully applied; the greasy parts repel water and absorb the ink but the wet parts do not. This process may be done by hand or photomechanically. Also see Offset Lithography, Chromo Lithography, Stone Lithography.

A printing process in which ink impressions are taken from a flat stone or metal plate prepared with some greasy or oily substance.

Printing technique using a planographic process in which prints are pulled on a special press from a flat stone or metal surface that has been chemically sensitized so that- ink sticks only to the design areas, and is repelled by the non-image areas. Lithography was invented in 1798 in Solnhofen, Germany by Alois Senefelder. The early history of lithography is dominated by great French artists such as Daumier and Delacroix, and later by Degas, Toulouse-Lautrec, Picasso, Braque and Miró.

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

One of our four basic graphic arts, which involves printing from prepared limestone blocks upon which an image has been drawn with a grease crayon. Lithography was developed in the eighteenth century by the German playwright Aloys Senefelder.

The process of taking impressions of artwork drawn on stone or metal plate. With the artist involved in the entire process, the fine art of lithography is a "multiple original" work of art, an interesting concept.

A printing process in which an inked image is transferred from a plate onto a blanket cylinder and then onto paper. It is based on the principle of the natural aversion of water to grease. The image to be lithographed is created on the plate with greasy material that repels water. Water is run over the plate, and the non-image areas absorb it. When the oily ink hits the plate, it's attracted to the similarly greasy image, and repelled by the rest of the wet plate. When paper is pressed onto the plate, it picks up the ink (and a bit of the water). This process is now used primarily for limited-edition prints.

A method of printing from a plane surface. The printing image is ink-receptive; the non-printing areas are ink repellent.

A popular printing method for producing large quantities of photographic quality posters in full color.

Lithography is a method for printing on a smooth surface. It can be used to print text or artwork onto paper or another suitable material. It can also refer to photolithography, a microfabrication technique used to make integrated circuits and microelectromechanical systems.