English
Etymology
The inked image is offset (“transferred”) from the metal printing plate to the printing surface via a rubber blanket.
Noun
offset printing (uncountable)
- Printing by the offset process, in which ink is carried from a metal plate to a rubber blanket (“offset cylinder”) and from there to the printing surface.
- Synonyms: offset, offset lithography
- Hypernym: planography
Translations
offset printing
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 平版印刷 (zh) (píngbǎn yìnshuā)
- Czech: ofset (cs) m
- Dutch: offsetdruk (nl)
- Finnish: offsetpaino (fi)
- French: impression en offset f, offset (fr) m
- German: Offsetdruck (de) m
- Hebrew: אופסט (offset), הדפסת פסט
- Hungarian: ofszet (hu), ofszetnyomás (hu)
- Irish: seach-chur m
- Italian: stampa in offset f
- Norwegian: offsettrykk n
- Pannonian Rusyn: офсет-друкованє n (ofset-drukovanje)
- Portuguese: offset (pt) m, ofsete (pt) m
- Russian: офсе́тная печа́ть (ofsétnaja pečátʹ)
- Scottish Gaelic: leac-sgrìobhadh m
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Latin: ofset-štampa f
- Spanish: ófset
- Swedish: offsettryck n
- Turkish: ofset (tr)
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