Planographic Printing
Neither method cuts into the plate, since both rely on grease repelling water, and once color was added the process put advertising and reproductions into ordinary hands.
Dictionary entry
- Lithography 1796– / Technique
Uses the repulsion of oil and water to reproduce crayon and tusche drawing from stone or plate, keeping all the softness of the hand.
- Chromolithography 1830s–1930s / Technique
Multicolor printing in which a separate lithographic stone is prepared for each color and the stones are overlaid in exact register. A dozen or more stones built up an intensity like oil paint and sent reproductions, labels, posters and cards into the world in quantity. The popularization of color printing begins here.