More than 10 years of investigation has made the lithography workshop become technologically independent. We build and use our own equipment and materials. We draw on Mexican marble or onix with lithographic tusche and crayons and then print with leather rollers and lithography presses, all made in the premises.
Lithography

From the greek lithos, ‘stone’, graphéin, ‘to write’, lithography is the stone printing process discovered in 1796 by the german Alois Senefelder.
In lithography, a no-relief flat surface is used. The contrast operates in the antagonistic relationship between water and grease. Senefelder discovered that if a drawing was made with a grease-pencil on a calcareous stone, when the stone was wet the pencil lines attracted and held the oily ink while the other zones did not. The image could then be transferred on paper by pressing it to the stone.

In the world of XIXth century printing, lithography became the most important reproduction method for works of art and illustrations in books and magazines. Then off-set was born from lithography.

It is the same lithographic technique invented by the German Alois Senefelder in 1796, but adapted to our local materials. We print both in color and black & white, from small formats to 125 x 93 cm. Ours is the only workshop where artists can work on large format mexican stones.
 

With our technical development we have established 18 lithography workshops throughout Mexico and it’s in our workshop where we train printers and artists in the art of stone lithography. We are providers of all the necessary equipment and materials to set up litho workshops, except for ink and printing paper.

 The Ceiba Gráfica lithography workshop focuses in production offering artists three options to develop their work with technical assistance.

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