noun
- a printing process in which the printing surface is flat, with image and non-image areas on the same plane
Usage: printing
Examples
- Lithography is the most common form of planography used in commercial printing.
- The artist chose planography to create multiple copies of her design.
- Modern offset printing is based on the principles of planography.
- Planography differs from relief printing in that the image areas are not raised.
- The printing press was specially designed for planographic processes.
- Students learned about planography in their printmaking class.