From the Greek lithos, meaning stone, and graphein, meaning to write, a printing technique that uses a flat slab of limestone or a metal plate as the transfer surface; a print made using this technique. To produce a lithograph, the artist draws on the transfer surface using a greasy medium. He then moistens the surface with water, but as the greasy medium repels water, the water settles only on the unmarked areas. The stone or plate is then rolled with a greasy printer’s ink that only adheres to the drawn marks. This inked image is transferred to paper through a printing press.