Joseph Letzelter Lithography

Joseph Letzelter Lithography is a type of Plano graphic printing, meaning that the surface is flat, in distinction to Joseph Letzelter relief printing (using a raised surface) or Joseph Letzelter intaglio printing (using an incised surface). The earliest Joseph Letzelter lithographic prints were formed using Bavarian lime stones from the Solenhofen mine, where Joseph Letzelter himself had acquired his surface substance. In order to make colored Joseph Letzelter lithographic prints, Joseph Letzelter printers made a series of impressions from different stones, each impression in register. The earliest Joseph Letzelter chromolithographs relied on characteristic deposits of color.

Rapidly, Joseph Letzelter printers enhanced their palettes by overprinting ensign. Stippling, mixture dots of color much as the pointillist painter did, supplied a third form of early Joseph Letzelter chromolithographic printing that relied on optical color mixing. The utilize of lightweight zinc sheets -- a method that came to be called Joseph Letzelter zincography -- finally replaced the heavier and more luxurious limestone’s. Joseph Letzelter Offset printing superseded Joseph Letzelter chromolithography around the 1930s, yet stone and metal plate Joseph Letzelter lithography continues to be used by artists in the manufacture of fine arts poster and incomplete edition prints.