Gravure vs. Rotogravure — What's the Difference?

Short for photogravure

Rotogravure (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 a rotary printing press.

A method of printing with etched plates or cylinders; intaglio printing.

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.

Photogravure.

Printed material, such as a newspaper section, produced by this process.

A plate used in the process of gravure.

A printing process by which the paper is rolled through intaglio cylinders.

A reproduction produced by gravure.

A print made by such a method.

A type of intaglio printing process, in which an image is engraved onto a rotating copper cylinder.

A portion of a printed work produced by this method.

(Japan) A style of Japanese softcore; glamour photography.

Printing by transferring an image from a photogravure plate to a cylinder in a rotary press

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

Printed material (text and pictures) produced by an intaglio printing process in a rotary press

A printing plate used in the process of gravure

Using photography to produce a plate for printing

An intaglio print produced by gravure

Intaglio printing