rotogravure
pronunciation
How to pronounce rotogravure in British English:
UK [ˌrəʊtəgrə'vjʊə]
How to pronounce rotogravure in American English:
US [ˌroʊtəgrə'vjʊr]
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- Noun:
- 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
Word Origin
- rotogravure (n.)
- 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" (see gravure). The process was used for printing photo sections of newspapers and magazines, so that the word came to be used for these.
Example
- 1. International flexo rotogravure technological development forum & technical exchange 2006 .
- 2. Research on the applying of water based ink in rotogravure printing .
- 3. Application of high-precision encoder in improvement of on-line slitting accuracy of cerutti rotogravure production line .