lithographicadj.
/ˌlɪθə(ʊ)ˈɡrafɪk/, U.S. /ˌlɪθəˈɡræfɪk/ 1.
a. Pertaining to, employed in or produced by lithography; engraved on or printed from stone. Cf. lithography n. 3.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > printmaking > surface and planographic printing > lithography > [adjective]
lithographic1813
lithographed1826
litho1896
lithotinted1969
1813 in Archæol. Jrnl. (1894) 2nd Ser. 2 117 Forty Lithographic impressions from drawings by Thomas Barker.
1816 S. W. Singer Researches Hist. Playing Cards 158 (note) This fac-simile..is curious as being a production of the newly invented Lithographic process.
1819 Trans. Soc. Arts 37 131 A Lithographic Press, the invention of Mr. Alois Senefelder.
1827 T. De Quincey On Murder in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Feb. 209/2 No better than..a lithographic print by the side of a fine Volpato.
1839 Penny Cycl. XIV. 44/2 The two principal agents used for making designs, writings, &c., on stone, are called lithographic chalk and lithographic ink.
1885 List of Subscribers Exchange Syst. (United Telephone Co.) (ed. 6) 123 Lithographers and Lithographic Printers.
1892 A. Powell Southward's Pract. Printing (ed. 4) i. 3 Lithographic printing is done with stones, zinc plates, &c.
1915 Southward's Mod. Printing (ed. 3) II. xxxiii. 281 Rotary lithographic machines work from zinc or aluminium plates carried on a plate cylinder.
1970 E. A. D. Hutchings Surv. Printing Processes v. 75 Lithographic plates are made from both zinc and aluminium.
1972 P. Gaskell New Introd. Bibliogr. 269 Nineteenth-century lithography was a separate trade... Towards the end of the century, however, powered lithographic cylinder machines were developed which had a productivity comparable with that of the letterpress machinery of the period, and they were followed around 1900 by lithographic rotaries which ran at yet higher speeds. These new machines, used in conjunction with photographic transfer methods of plate preparation, pointed the way to the integration of lithographic with general letterpress printing which took place during the first half of the twentieth century.
1973 Brit. Printer July 68/3 It was only with the increase in lithographic printing that photosetting began to ‘find its feet’.
b. lithographic limestone, lithographic slate, lithographic stone: a compact yellowish slaty limestone used in lithography. Hence the adjective is applied to rocks resembling this.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > printmaking > surface and planographic printing > lithography > [noun] > stone
stonec1806
lithographic stone1836
snake-stone1850
1836 W. Buckland Geol. & Mineral. I. xvi. 406 The lithographic limestone of Solenhofen.
1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 777 The lithographic stones of the best quality are still procured from the quarry of Solenhofen.
1839 R. I. Murchison Silurian Syst. xxii. 275 This band has a conchoidal fracture, and a surface as smooth as lithographic stone.
1853 T. Ross tr. A. von Humboldt Personal Narr. Trav. Amer. III. xxix. 165 The chain of hills..which is reddish white, and almost of lithographic nature, like the Jura limestone of Pappenheim.
1876 D. Page Adv. Text-bk. Geol. (ed. 6) xvii. 322 The lithographic limestones of Germany.
2. Descriptive of stones or rocks. rare.
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1820 Da Costa in Gentleman's Mag. 90 i. 222 A Lithographic view of the several Counties in England.
Compounds
lithographic offset n. = offset n. 10b.
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society > communication > printing > manner or style of printing > [noun] > transfer of wet ink to other page
set-off1842
offset1888
lithographic offset1915
1915 Southward's Mod. Printing (ed. 3) II. xxxiii. 282 Lithographic Offset Printing. Offset printing is popularly supposed to have owed its introduction to a ‘miss’ made in printing on a lithographic cylinder machine.
1946 H. Whetton Pract. Printing & Binding 446/1 Lithographic offset printing.
1960 G. A. Glaister Gloss. Bk. 239/2 Modern lithographic offset printing is mostly done in rotary presses.
lithographic paper n. paper suitable for lithographic printing.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > printmaking > surface and planographic printing > lithography > [noun] > other materials
transfer-ink1832
transfer-paper1841
tusche1885
chromo paper1896
lithographic varnish1903
etch1930
lithographic paper1937
1937 E. J. Labarre Dict. Paper 167/1 Since the introduction of the offset printing process, however, all papers have become possible as ‘lithographic’ papers.
1963 R. R. A. Higham Handbk. Papermaking vii. 202 Lithographic papers..are similar to offset cartridge, but generally cheaper and in a lighter substance.
lithographic pen n. a pen used for drawing a design on stone or metal.Apparently an isolated use.
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1862 G. Wilson Religio Chemici 32 The records,..which geology has written down with her lithographic pen.
lithographic varnish n. a preparation of linseed oil used in inks for lithographic printing.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > printmaking > surface and planographic printing > lithography > [noun] > other materials
transfer-ink1832
transfer-paper1841
tusche1885
chromo paper1896
lithographic varnish1903
etch1930
lithographic paper1937
1903 A. Seymour Pract. Lithogr. x. 52 The most useful and the commonest form of reducing medium is a linseed oil product, known in its prepared state as a lithographic varnish.
1951 R. Mayer Artist's Handbk. (new ed.) x. 312 Lithographic varnishes, from which many types of inks for other printing purposes are also made, are heat-bodied linseed oils.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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adj.1813