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planographic

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From plano- +‎ -graphic.

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planographic (not comparable)

  1. Relating to planography; pertaining to printing made from a plane surface. [from 19th c.]
    • 2009, James Mosley, edited by Michael F Suarez and Michael L Turner, The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain, vol. V, Cambridge, published 2014, page 164:
      Some wholly new inventions, like lithography, a new planographic process for making images based on a chemical principle [] , were capable of development into new industrial processes when they were aided by photography.

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