A technical dictionary of printmaking, André Béguin.
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photolithography
That branch of lithographic printing in which photography is employed for production of the image on the final printing surface. The original printing surface, lithographic stone, has been almost completely displaced, in the printing industry, by thin and flexible sheets of metal (aluminium, zinc, stainless steel, bimetallic and polymetallic plates). The oldest photolithographic procedure was the albumen process in which lighthardened and inked images of bichromated albumen served as the actual printing surface. Deep-etch plates are a modern form of photolithographic surface, as are also bimetallic plates and those of the plastic type.
[lithography], [photographic processes], [photo-engraving]
f photolithographie d Photolithographie n foto-lithografie.
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