![]() ![]() Lithography is a process of making a print. I wondered if anyone could explain to me in simple terms how to tell a real lithograph from a print? Firstly, What Is A Lithograph and is it a Print?Ī Lithograph is technically a print. When I learned that Lithography was a form of printing I wondered if any of the lithographs that I had purchased were ‘real’. When I started collecting prints I kept coming across Lithographs for sale and was not sure what they actually were. A hand made original will have uneven sized dots that can be thicker in height to make up the image. ![]() If you look at the image with a magnifying glass and see even sized dots which are also quite flat then you’re most likely looking at a mechanical print. In a mechanical print tiny even sized dots of cyan, yellow, magenta & black are used to make the image. Under magnification you can see irregularities the way the lines are made and how colors are applied. ![]() This requires some magnification of the image because a lithographic ‘plate’ which is used to create the printed image is usually hand-made by an artist. The answer to the question “how to tell a real lithograph from a print?” assumes you mean a mechanical print versus an artists’ hand-made lithograph print. ![]()
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