Planographic printing

thumb|upright=1.3|A lithograph of Charles Marion Russell's The Custer Fight (1903), with the range of tones fading toward the edges.

printing technique where an inked image is transferred from plate to printing surface via a rubber blanket

right|thumb|upright=1.3|"Love or Duty", a chromolithograph by Gabriele Castagnola, 1873. The nineteen colours of ink used can be seen on the right hand side.

printing technique or process