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What is lithography? What is the history of lithography? What is it used for today?

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Lithography is a printing process that works on the principle that oil and water do not mix: an image is drawn or transferred onto a flat stone or metal plate with a greasy substance, the plate is treated so ink adheres only to the image areas while water repels ink from the non-image areas, and the inked image is then transferred to paper. It was invented by Alois Senefelder in Bavaria around 1796 and quickly became popular for fine art and commercial printing; later developments led to offset lithography in the late 19th and early 20th centuries for high-volume printing. In the mid-20th century the basic idea was adapted into photolithography, which uses light and photosensitive resists to pattern features on substrates for electronics. Today lithography remains central to commercial printing (books, magazines, packaging) and to semiconductor and microfabrication industries (integrated circuits, MEMS, printed electronics), as well as continuing use in fine art printmaking.