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UK
/lˌɪθəɡɹˈæfɪk/
]
[ US /ˌɫɪθəˈɡɹæfɪk/ ]
[ US /ˌɫɪθəˈɡɹæfɪk/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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of or produced by or involved in lithography
lithographic reproduction
How To Use lithographic In A Sentence
- The result is photographically reduced and printed on a lithographic zinc plate.
- In the mid-1870s, a French missionary and a Chinese priest went to France and brought advanced lithographic printing to Shanghai, setting up China's first lithographic press.
- It was printed in 20 colors and was made from a combination of pressed paper pulp and adhered lithographic elements.
- The well-known study by Thomas Maguire, a lithographic print taken from life in 1849, was from the outset a commercial project.
- At Curwen Studios, Cambridgeshire, they print a lithographic poster using methods Lautrec himself would have used.
- An even better idea was halftone photoengraving, introduced by Frederic Ives six years later, which made any manual process obsolete, and doomed Kaolatype, and led indirectly to the lithographic dynasty of another Ives, James, and his partner Nathaniel Currier. Mark Twain
- Named for ARCHAEOPTERYX LITHOGRAPHICA, the first reptile to develop the feather for flight, freeing itself from the constraints of the horizontal world.
- The uncoloured lithographic plates are much sought after, and the two volumes are expected to make £300 to £500.
- In that respect, it differs from most contemporary lithographic portraits of the violinist, which show him bust-length, his piercing gaze riveted on the viewer.
- The firm's rapid growth was helped by new technology; notably power-driven lithographic presses and the machine colouring of maps.