lithographic

Evidence

"Lithography or ‘stone printing’, for instance seems to have remained popular – especially in South Asia – through the nineteenth century at least in part because it enabled the creation of printed texts that looked like manuscripts."

Remarks

The article explains that lithographic printing (stone printing) was specifically chosen by publishers like the al-Halabi firm because the resulting ink application and style emulated the hand-written manuscript tradition (p. 231). This allowed for the continuation of complex layouts such as the maṭn (original text) ringed by marginal commentary (p. 231). The technology was prevalent in works produced in Cairo and Bombay for distribution in East Africa (p. 221, 231).