A work produced through photographic reproduction. Offset lithography can be a complex process. Using four or more color separations, the best facsimile of the artist's original is produced.
The inked image is set off from the stone or plate on to an intermediate rubber covered transfer cylinder before being printed. In photo offset lithography the image is photographic in nature and then transfered onto specially sensitized plates and processed before printing.
The most widely used method of printing during which a photomechanical reproduction is created by the separation of colours in the original and then the recombining of those colours on a printing press.
Offset lithography continues to be the best way of getting a large number of prints made available to the largest number of customers. It uses a different metal printing plate for each colour to be printed. A disadvantage to this process is the screening technique produces dots, or droplets of ink that when combined create the compound colours. Not quite visible to the human eye, but under magnification, these dots become quite evident so the image does not have the continuous look of the original watercolour, or of the new Giclee printing process.
In Offset lithography, four metal plates are photographicaly etched and each plate is inked with either cyan, magenta, yellow, or black ink. Through the combination of these four colors, nearly any other color can be reproduced. If you look closely at an offset lithograph you will find that the image is composed of very small dots of color. This method is used to print posters, newspapers and magazines.
is when the inked image is set off the stone or plate onto a rubber transfer cylinder before printing.
A type of high-volume commercial print made by an electromechanical press designed for reproduction of thousands or more sheets of paper. While not designated as a fine art printing process, offset lithography is typically used to make large-volume printed materials, such as posters and magazines.
A photo mechanical technique in which the image is transferred to the negative plates (usually 4 to 8 metal plates) and printed onto paper.
A photomechanical reproduction created by the separation of colors in the original and then the recombining of those colors on a printing press. Most posters and open-edition prints and many limited-edition prints are offset lithographs.
A reproduction created by the separation of colors in the original and then recombining those colors on a printing press. Most posters and open-edition prints as well as some limited-edition prints are offset lithographs.
A special photo-mechanical technique in which the image to be printed is transferred to the negative plates and printed onto papers. Offset lithograph is very well adapted to color printing.
Offset lithograph or offset lithography is the most common way to print limited edition art, posters, magazines, catalogs, brochures and most other color images on paper. It is a mechanical four color press process.
A mechanical printing process used to reproduce an image within a kind of photographic process. The most current printing methods in the art world are computerized or printed electronically. This older process uses a computer, tedious typesetting, and page-design software along with optical scanners for reproduction.
A photomechanically reproduced image. See "limited edition reproduction."
A photomechanical reproduction created by the separation of colors in the original artwork and then recombining those colors on a printing press. Most posters and open-edition prints and many limited-edition prints are done this way.