lithography

n. Process of printing from a plate so treated that ink adheres only to the design to be printed.  lithographer n. Lithographic adj. Lithographically adv.

n. The art or process of putting designs or writing, with a greasy material, on stone, and of producing printed impressions therefrom. The process depends, in the main, upon the antipathy between grease and water, which prevents a printing ink containing oil from adhering to wetted parts of the stone not covered by the design. See Lithographic limestone, under Lithographic.