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Printing. A printing process in which ink is transferred from a plate (earlier, a stone) to a rubber-covered cylinder, and thence to paper or some…
Offset printing using plates produced by a photographic process, esp. by photolithography. Frequently attributive.
photolithography by an offset process; = photo-offset, n.