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What is lithography? What is the history of lithography? What is it used for today? (short answer)

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Lithography is a printing technique in which an image is drawn with a greasy substance on a flat stone or metal plate so that ink sticks only to the drawn areas while water repels ink from the rest. It was invented by Alois Senefelder in 1796 as an inexpensive way to reproduce text and artwork, and in the 19th–20th centuries it developed into offset lithography for large-scale commercial printing. Artists adopted stone lithography for fine art prints, while industry shifted to metal plates and mechanized presses. Today "lithography" also refers to photolithography, a light-based microfabrication process critical for making integrated circuits and MEMS, while offset lithography remains widely used for newspapers, books, and packaging.