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lithography

vr.tr.lithography · ACT.ACT

Let an agent explain lithography, relay the printmaking process, its history and colour and transfer forms, and the separate microfabrication sense from art and semiconductor sources, describe the named forms, and distinguish artistic lithography from relief and intaglio printing, offset lithography and photolithography in chip making.

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Purpose and description

Let an agent explain lithography, relay the printmaking process, its history and colour and transfer forms, and the separate microfabrication sense from art and semiconductor sources, describe the named forms, and distinguish artistic lithography from relief and intaglio printing, offset lithography and photolithography in chip making.

A planographic printing process invented by Alois Senefelder around 1796, based on the mutual repulsion of grease and water, in which an image is drawn with a greasy medium on a flat stone or plate that is then wetted and inked so ink adheres only to the image; forms the registry aliases name include colour lithography or chromolithography, transfer lithography, the Japanese Mokulito on wood, and, in a different modern sense, X-ray, ion-beam and next-generation lithography used to pattern microchips. The printmaking and the microfabrication senses share a name but are distinct technologies.

What it is for: Planographic printing and, in a separate sense, microchip patterning.

It can be explain the printmaking process and history; relay colour and transfer forms; describe the microfabrication sense; distinguish related processes.

Distinguishing features

Flat printing surface

Grease-water principle

Colour and transfer forms

Shared name with microfabrication

What it looks like

Prints made from a flat stone or plate; in chip making, patterned wafers.

Physical character

inventor: Alois Senefelder note - about 1796

principle: grease and water repulsion note

registry parents: planographic printing, printing process note

How it is recognised

Planographic printing from a flat surface

Transfer lithography, Mokulito, X-ray lithography, color lithography, ion beam lithography, next-generation lithography

Relief printing prints raised areas; intaglio prints incised lines; offset lithography transfers via a blanket; photolithography patterns chips

Related models

is a kind of - in registry terms

printing process

is contrasted with -

relief printing

is contrasted with -

intaglio

is contrasted with - chip making

photolithography

In practice

Families and kinds

stone lithography

offset lithography

chromolithography

photolithography in chip making

Standards and regulation

Printing industry standards

Semiconductor fabrication standards for the microfabrication sense

Failure modes and hazards

Solvent and chemical exposure in printing

Confusing the printmaking and chip-making senses

Confusing lithography and offset

Also called

transfer lithographyMokulitoX-ray lithographycolor lithographyIon beam lithographynext-generation lithographyoffset lithographyMagnetolithographyMaskless lithographyProton beam writingScanning probe lithographyStencil lithographyautolithographytinted lithography

Where this came from

wikidata · CC0 1.0

Source repository Registry entry point

Drafted structure

Bundle to layer to finding to question, as the second pass will find it: 4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions.

Understand What lithography is.

Definition.

Definition

Definition.

Definition

Definition.

  1. What is lithography, and how does the printmaking process differ from relief and intaglio printing, offset lithography and chip photolithography? definition
  2. Is the question about art printmaking or microchip fabrication? boundary

Forms

Named forms.

Forms

Forms.

  1. What are colour and transfer lithography, Mokulito and X-ray and ion-beam lithography? definition
  2. Which entry fits the specific form? action
Process Printmaking process.

Sources.

Principle

Grease and water.

Principle

Principle.

  1. How does the grease-water principle create the image? provenance
  2. Which references are standard? provenance

History

History.

History

History.

  1. How did Senefelder invent lithography? provenance
  2. Which sources are cited? provenance
Forms Colour and offset.

Sources.

Colour

Chromolithography.

Colour

Colour.

  1. How does colour lithography print in multiple colours? provenance
  2. Which entry fits chromolithography? action

Offset

Offset lithography.

Offset

Offset.

  1. How does offset lithography dominate modern printing? provenance
  2. Which entry fits offset printing? action
Context Microfabrication.

Science.

Chips

Photolithography.

Chips

Chips.

  1. How does photolithography pattern microchips, in a separate sense? provenance
  2. Which entry fits photolithography? action

Safety

Chemical safety.

Safety

Safety.

  1. What chemical safety issues arise in lithographic printing? provenance
  2. Is the information current? boundary

What the second pass must settle

  • Should photolithography for chips be a separate entry?
  • How should offset lithography be linked?
  • How should Mokulito be documented?
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