A technical dictionary of printmaking, André Béguin.
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planography, planographic printing
The term used for a group of printing techniques which are surface printed as opposed to relief-printing or intaglio-printing. The two major planographic techniques are offset and lithography. Erroneously, some have tried to apply the term planography in a more restrictive sense using it only for the single types of photolithography, such as black-and-white line and halftone reproduction.
f impression planographique d Flachdruck n vlakdruk.
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