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driography|draɪˈɒgrəfɪ| [f. dry a. + -graphy, after lithography.] A lithographic printing process which dispenses with the use of water as a barrier to prevent ink from settling on non-printing surfaces. Hence drioˈgraphic a.
1970Publishers' Weekly 14 Sept. 57/2 Traditionally, water has been required to keep non-image areas free from ink. Driography, which requires special inks, is based on fiddling with the adhesive and cohesive properties of ink. Ibid., These driographic inks will also work on regular offset processes with dampening systems and conventional plates. 1971Brit. Printer Feb. 62/2 The trick in driography has been to find two surfaces that are sufficiently different in ‘wettability’ to dispense with water completely. 1971Penrose Ann. LXIV. 125/1 Dry Plate is a registered 3M brand name. The firm has adopted the words ‘driography’ and ‘driographic’ for generic description of the system its components and the presses, papers and inks involved. |