Meaning & use
Rotogravure
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A printing process using engraved rotating cylinders to transfer ink onto paper, historically used for newspaper photo sections and magazines.
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The Sunday paper's rotogravure section featured striking black-and-white photographs.
Rotogravure allowed publishers to mass-produce high-quality images in the early twentieth century.
A note on using this word
The technique gave its name to entire newspaper sections once printed this way, and it is still used today for high-volume packaging printing.
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