Explore: Offset Lithography

successfully started printing in Germany on his Triumph sheetfed offset press. Lithography was initially created to be an inexpensive method of reproducing

microelectronics manufacturing process). Offset printing or "offset lithography" is an elaboration of lithography in which the ink is transferred from the

production capabilities. In the late 19th century, the introduction of offset lithography revolutionized the printing industry. This technique used a flat metal

used in the mid-twentieth century to print most major newspapers. In offset lithography, the image is chemically applied to a plate, generally through exposure

Dot gain, or tonal value increase, is a phenomenon in offset lithography and some other forms of printing that causes printed material to look darker than

Most offset presses use three cylinders: Plate, blanket, impression. Currently, most books and newspapers are printed using offset lithography. Gravure

all types of high-volume text, are now printed using offset lithography. In offset lithography, which depends on photographic processes, flexible aluminum

Addressograph-Multigraph Multilith 1250 and related sheet-fed offset printing presses in the offset lithography market. It was little more than a high quality, commercially

more expensive on a per-print basis than the traditional four-color offset lithography, but with inkjet printing the artist does not have to pay for the

printing) or incised surface (as with intaglio printing). Lithography and offset lithography are planographic processes that rely on the property that