• 1The process of printing from a flat surface treated so as to repel the ink except where it is required for printing.

  平版印刷术，石印术

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  • For graphics on paperboard cartons, users request flexography, lithography and hot stamping as well as thermochromatic and food-contact inks.
  • In conventional lithography, features that are not anchored are washed away in intermediate development steps.
  • In offset lithography, a printing process commonly used for mass production, the image is taken from the plate by a rubber roller that then transfers the image to the paper.
  • Printing on aluminum foil can be accomplished by any commercial process, including rotogravure, flexography, lithography, and letterpress.
  • Traditional fakes come from a process called offset lithography that produces phony dollars without the ‘raised ink’ feel of genuine bills.
  • The main types of printmaking are screenprinting, lithography, intaglio and relief.
  • Imprint lithography is a process in which a liquid is dispensed onto a substrate.
  • In the past, we've seen her deriving images from the media, sandblasting text and images onto mirror surfaces and working with photo-serigraphy and lithography.
  • Imprint lithography also involves fewer process steps, further reducing the overall cost of the technology.
  • "The standard quality for most contemporary maps is offset lithography," he said.
  • The Japanese government established a governmental printing department and lithography was used by the Japanese army.
  • The approach uses lithography to etch a pattern onto the platter.
  • In 1888 there were more than 100 publishers in Tokyo alone who used lithography.
  • Touch plates or added color embellishments are not uncommon in offset lithography.
  • For an artist to be able to inspire poetry of the eye while employing a multilayered technical process as complicated as lithography, that's sheer genius.
  • He also had international exposure as he studied intaglio printmaking lithography and ceramics in Israel.
  • The actual process of printing by offset lithography is not new, but has been hugely refined in terms of quality and speed.
  • Over 10,000 means that we could switch from letter press to offset lithography, a process which depends on the immiscibility of greasy ink and water on a lithographic plate.
  • Invented in the late 18th century, stone or plate lithography uses an inked slab of limestone or a specially treated metal plate to transfer an image to paper.

  1. 1.1Electronics A method analogous to lithography, used in making printed circuits.
     〔电子〕光刻法（一种印刷电路的模拟制作法）
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     • The timeline puts the screws to extreme ultraviolet lithography, but engineers rise to the challenge.
     • For example, polymer nanoimprint lithography could help the electronics industry achieve the resolution requirements needed for next-generation devices.
     • In microelectronics manufacturing, lithography plays the analogous role.
     • As the semiconductor industry looks to the future, stepper manufacturers are gearing up for extreme ultraviolet lithography.
     • Electron beam lithography involves striking a surface with a beam of electrons with patterning capabilities below 100 nm.

The earliest forms of lithography used greasy ink to form an image on a piece of limestone which was then etched with acid and treated with gum arabic. In a modern press, rollers transfer ink to a thin aluminium plate wrapped round a cylinder. In offset lithography the image is transferred to an intermediate rubber-covered cylinder before being printed