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Printing process
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gravure
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context arts printing English) A type of intaglio printing process, in which an image is engraved onto a rotating copper cylinder.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1893, short for photogravure , from gravure , from grave (v.) + -ure .
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a printing process that uses an etched or engraved plate; the plate is smeared with ink and wiped clean, then the ink left in the recesses makes the print [syn: intaglio printing , intaglio ] a printing plate used in the process of gravure an intaglio ...
Usage examples of gravure.
Unfortunately, only three hundred complete sets of the illustrations were completed by the gravure process so that the missing illustrations are reproduced in this volume by the Aquatone process.