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litho|ˈlɪθəʊ, now more usually ˈlaɪθəʊ| A techn. abbrev. of lithograph. Also, abbrev. of lithographic, lithography.
1890in Century Dict. 1896Daily News 27 July 4/4 Litho artists jostled the bricklayer, and the bricklayer joined hands with the baker. 1897Westm. Gaz. 5 Apr. 7/3 There was no difference between the ordinary stone lithos and the transfer paper lithos. 1903Brit. Printer Jan. 40/1 The Gazette is the organ of the litho trade. 1915Southward's Mod. Printing (ed. 3) II. xxxiii. 284 A number of transfers may be laid down on the stone, and from such litho prints there is, of course, no impression on the back. 1946A. Kirk in H. Whetton Pract. Printing & Binding xvi. 190/1 Part of the very extensive mail-order catalogue business of America..is printed from the web by litho-offset at very high speeds. 1948Sci. News VII. 100 A simple processing technique resulted in litho printing plates ready for use. Ibid., Litho printers. 1965S. C. Gilmour Paper (ed. 2) xix. 236 Litho offset ink is normally stiffer than that used for letterpress. 1972Nature 17 Mar. 101/2 This printing is done quite quickly by the Ordnance Survey by litho directly from the typescripts. 1973Times Lit. Suppl. 7 Dec. 1492/2 One other contributory factor has been the growth of film⁓setting, which composes letters directly on to film, whence they can be directly transferred to a litho printing plate. Ibid. 1518/1 Letterpress, although progressively eroded by litho, still prints about 50 per cent of bookwork. Also (abbrev. of lithograph v. 1) as v.
1934J. A. Lee Children of Poor (1949) VI. 205, I would print or litho intricate design in varied colour. |