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Chromolithography
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chromolithography [¦krō·mō·li′thäg·rə·fē]
(graphic arts)
Lithographic printing with several colors, requiring a stone for each color.
Chromolithography 

a method of lithographic reproduction of multicolored images, in which a separate printing image is prepared by hand on a stone or zinc plate for each color; an outline is applied initially on the surface of each stone. Chromolithography has been replaced almost entirely by the photomechanical methods used in planographic printing to produce plates.
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