gravure
- 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
- n a printing plate used in the process of gravure
- n an intaglio print produced by gravure
- n the act of intaglio printing
- Moreover, a new printing technique called gravure had arisen to fill a growing need for fast color printing.
- In both letterpress and gravure, the impression is taken directly from the printing plate (see diagrams.
- First issue of the 10 monthly gravure picture magazine was a 705,000 sellout, and the present 1,700,000 circulation came in generous leaps bounds as the monthly became a .