Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Objects Facet
3. Furnishings and Equipment (hierarchy name)
4. Tools and Equipment (hierarchy name)
5. equipment
6. [equipment by process]
7. image-making equipment
8. [equipment for printing and printmaking]
9. printing surfaces (equipment)
10. printing plates

Narrower term/s

• offset plates

Anotations

Scope note:

Sheets of material, usually aluminum or polyester, that have been treated so that they may be used for printing processes that rely on the priciple of the immiscibility of oil and water, especially commercial offset lithography. For limestone blocks prepared as plates for fine art lithography, use "lithographic stones."