rotogravure

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On this minor his dream faded -- work to do: he tried to imagine himself in Congress rooting around in the litter of that incredible pigsty with the narrow and porcine brows he saw pictured sometimes in the rotogravure sections of the Sunday newspapers, those glorified proletarians babbling blandly to the nation the ideas of high school seniors!

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  1. noun An intaglio printing process in which letters and pictures are transferred from an etched copper cylinder to a web of paper, plastic, or similar material in a rotary press.
  2. noun Printed material, such as a newspaper section, produced by this process.

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  • "Coco," the persona known for her royal lovers, rotogravure friends, and rarefied tastes, became her own best advertisement. —  Style.com: Daily Fashion Show Pictures
  • He started his career at R.R. Donnelley in 1983 as a seasonal PTA in rotogravure.
  • Whatever you want to print, whether it's a book, a brochure, packaging, a mailer, an ad, posters, flyers, business cards, signage, a free standing display unit, billboards, or even clothing … to rotogravure, offset lithographic, inkjet, laser or digital printing … from Macs or PCs … artwork will need to be supplied to printers in a digital format that they can work with. —  Find Free Articles - ArticlesBase
  • With the goals of eliminating grease staining and increasing top-load strength, Graphic Packaging reverse-prints 48-gauge PET from DuPont Teijin on a rotogravure press, metallizes it, and laminates the metallized film to its 30-point clay-coated solid unbleached sulfate using low-density polyethylene (LDPE).
  • Up to 10 colors can be printed on the film using rotogravure or flexographic printing. —  FoodProductionDaily RSS
 

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  1. Latin rota, wheel; see ret- in Indo-European roots + gravure.
 

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