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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. The process of printing by indirect image transfer, especially by using a metal or paper plate to ink a smooth rubber cylinder that transfers the ink to the paper.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. (Printing) A printing technique in which a lithographic image on an inked metal or stone plate is transferred first to a rubber sheet (usually on a cylinder) before transfer to the paper. Called also offset lithography.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a plate makes an inked impression on a rubber-blanketed cylinder, which in turn transfers it to the paper

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  1. printing process
  1. printing

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  1. photo-offset
  1. photo-offset printing
  1. letterset printing

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  1. photo-offset
  2. photo-offset printing
  1. setoff
  2. set-off
  1. setting
  2. mechanical
  1. offset
  2. offset-sheet
  1. offsetting-blanket
  2. sheeted
  1. planography
  2. offset lithography
  1. offset printing

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