driographyn.
/drʌɪˈɒɡrəfi/ A lithographic printing process which dispenses with the use of water as a barrier to prevent ink from settling on non-printing surfaces.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > printmaking > surface and planographic printing > printing from metal or plastic plates > [noun]
papyrography1842
metallography1851
paniconography1859
paniconograph1875
lithography1906
driography1970
1970 Publishers' 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.
1971 Brit. 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.
1971 Penrose 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.
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drioˈgraphic adj.
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1970 Publishers' Weekly 14 Sept. 57/2 These driographic inks will also work on regular offset processes with dampening systems and conventional plates.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
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