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Printing by transferring an image from a photogravure plate to a cylinder in a rotary press
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rotogravure
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A printing process by which the paper is rolled through intaglio cylinders. 2 A print made by such a method. 3 A portion of a printed work produced by this method.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. printing by transferring an image from a photogravure plate to a cylinder in a rotary press printed material (text and pictures) produced by an intaglio printing process in a rotary press using photography to produce a plate for printing [syn: photogravure ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Rotogravure ( roto or gravure for short) is a type of intaglio printing process, which involves engraving the image onto an image carrier . In gravure printing, the image is engraved onto a cylinder because, like offset printing and flexography , it uses ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1913, from German Rotogravur (originally, in full, Deutsche Tiefdrück Gesellschaft ), said to blend two corporate names, Rotophot and Deutsche Photogravur A.G. Etymologically, the roots are Latin rota "wheel, roller" (see rotary ) and French gravure "engraving" ...
Usage examples of rotogravure.
Conditions and Situations discussed over and over and over and over and-- Of organizators and philanthrobbers and propheteers and directors and executive secretaries and executive directors and managing directors and the honorary chairmen and the sponsors and the trustees and the board of advisers and national headquarters and Chicago headquarters and local units and appeals to the press to give publicity to the unexampled needs of this great cause and you ought to be able to get this picture of Miss Viv de Vere, in bathing suit and holding a coin box, into the rotogravure sections and maybe get five minutes on Station WSOB and photographs and Dr.
He snapped his fingers trying to call back a name from crumbling fan magazines, from rotogravure coming attraction placards in theater windows.
The half-naked women in the Sunday supplement, the babies in the rotogravure section, the editorials on park squirrels, they were your souls given expression, the straight stuff of your souls--but where was mine?