Heavy Duty Rotogravure Printing Machine

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.The printing mechanism in a rotogravure press consists of a gravure cylinder and a smaller, rubber clad impression cylinder. Other types of gravure presses in commercial use today are sheet-fed, intaglio plate, and offset gravure. These types of presses are used primarily for special printing applications.Gravure printing is a widely used processing method often used to print large volumes of magazines and catalogues. Opposed to flexoprinting, the ink in gravure printing is transferred from carved micro cavities and not from a relief. These cavities, embedded in the printing cylinder, form the printing pattern.Gravure printing uses a wide variety of materials, papers, coated paters, films and foils are all widely used. In practice, the vast majority of these substrates can also be printed offset, flexo, digital, or screen.