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Lithography vs Lithotint - What's the difference?

lithography | lithotint |

As nouns the difference between lithography and lithotint

is that lithography is the process of printing a lithograph on a hard, flat surface; originally the printing surface was a flat piece of stone that was etched with acid to form a surface that would selectively transfer ink to the paper; the stone has now been replaced, in general, with a metal plate while lithotint is a kind of lithography by which the effect of a tinted drawing is produced, as if made with india ink.

lithography

English

(wikipedia lithography)

Noun

  • The process of printing a lithograph on a hard, flat surface; originally the printing surface was a flat piece of stone that was etched with acid to form a surface that would selectively transfer ink to the paper; the stone has now been replaced, in general, with a metal plate.

    • Derived terms

    * chromolithography * stereolithography

    lithotint

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A kind of lithography by which the effect of a tinted drawing is produced, as if made with India ink.
  • A picture produced by this process.
    • (Webster 1913)