planographic


Also found in: Thesaurus, Medical, Encyclopedia, Wikipedia.

pla·nog·ra·phy

(plə-nŏg′rə-fē, plā-)
n.
A process for printing from a smooth surface, as lithography or offset.
pla′no·graph′ic (plā′nə-grăf′ĭk) adj.
pla′no·graph′i·cal·ly adv.
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Adj. 1. planographic - of or relating to or involving planography
Based on WordNet 3.0, Farlex clipart collection. © 2003-2012 Princeton University, Farlex Inc.
References in periodicals archive ?
The reason Weeden's multitudinous tints did not take over the color printing world lies in the very details of why the established relief, intaglio, and planographic printing processes have endured even to this day.
Multitudinous Tints: An Inventor's Pursuit of Instantaneous Multicolor Printing
intaglio processes of engraving is the planographic method of drawing on
Creating an audience for a British School: L.E.L's Poetical Catalogue of Pictures in the Literary Gazette
Lithography emerged as the first planographic printing process (i.e.
Printing the rainbow: Elizabeth Upper welcomes a magisterial, technically minded survey of the history of chromolithography
I also showed and explained different types of prints such as relief, intaglio, planographic and stencil.
What's that hiding in your print?
Silk screen printing is a planographic process, so the image can either be printed on a flat clay surface or on an intermediate substrate and transferred to the ceramic form.
Capturing light with clay: Charlie Cummings details his process for printing photographic images on clay
The planographic process had the advantages of speed and durability for producing greater numbers of prints per stone, making it less costly.
Textiles, print culture and nation building in the 1840s

Full browser ?