1890 in Cent. Dict.

1897 Westm. Gaz. 5 Apr. 7/3 There was no difference between the ordinary stone lithos and the transfer paper lithos.

1972 Nature 17 Mar. 101/2 This printing is done quite quickly by the Ordnance Survey by litho directly from the typescripts.

1973 Times Lit. Suppl. 7 Dec. 1518/1 Letterpress, although progressively eroded by litho, still prints about 50 per cent of bookwork.

1896 Daily News 27 July 4/4 Litho artists jostled the bricklayer, and the bricklayer joined hands with the baker.

1903 Brit. Printer Jan. 40/1 The Gazette is the organ of the litho trade.

1915 Southward'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.

1946 A. 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.

1948 Sci. News 7 100 A simple processing technique resulted in litho printing plates ready for use.

1948 Sci. News 7 100 Litho printers.

1965 S. C. Gilmour Paper (ed. 2) xix. 236 Litho offset ink is normally stiffer than that used for letterpress.

1973 Times 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.

1934 J. A. Lee Children of Poor (1949) VI. 205 I would print or litho intricate design in varied colour.