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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A process for printing from a smooth surface, as lithography or offset.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The art of drawing plans or maps.
- noun The art of printing from plane surfaces. See
planographic .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A form of
printing from aflat surface, as opposed to a raised or incised one. - noun
medical tomography
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the process of printing from a surface on which the printing areas are not raised but are ink-receptive (as opposed to ink repellent)
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Other printers featured at the show were geared towards the gravure and planography processes.
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