Gravure Printing

Gravure printing is a very old process, the principles of which started in China around 100 AD. For the next 1400 year’s gravure progressed very slowly and all images were produced by hand using an engraving tool. Then, in the 16thcentury chemical etching was invented whereby the image could be scratched into a resistant coating on the metal surface of the plate and then engraved using an acid. This was a major step forward for the gravure process and high quality printing in general. By 1838 the principles of photography had been fully tested and proven and this gave a great challenge to the printing industry to find ways to reproduce these direct images of the real world in a fast and accurate manner.

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