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PROCEDE IMPRESSION PLAT [1 record]

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Record 1 1999-09-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Lithography, Offset Printing and Collotype
  • Graphic Arts and Printing
DEF

Any of the printing processes in which a flat surface is used, e.g. direct and offset lithography, or collotype.

OBS

Erroneously, some have tried to apply the term planography in a more restricted sense using it only for the simpler types of photolithography, such as black-and-white line and halftone reproduction.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Lithographie, offset et phototypie
  • Imprimerie et arts graphiques
DEF

Procédé d'impression qui repose sur le phénomène physique de la répulsion de l'eau et des corps gras, p. ex. la lithographie, l'offset, la phototypie, et d'une façon marginale, la sérigraphie.

Spanish

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