What's the difference between print and rotogravure?

Print


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To fix or impress, as a stamp, mark, character, idea, etc., into or upon something.
  • (v. t.) To stamp something in or upon; to make an impression or mark upon by pressure, or as by pressure.
  • (v. t.) To strike off an impression or impressions of, from type, or from stereotype, electrotype, or engraved plates, or the like; in a wider sense, to do the typesetting, presswork, etc., of (a book or other publication); as, to print books, newspapers, pictures; to print an edition of a book.
  • (v. t.) To stamp or impress with colored figures or patterns; as, to print calico.
  • (v. t.) To take (a copy, a positive picture, etc.), from a negative, a transparent drawing, or the like, by the action of light upon a sensitized surface.
  • (v. i.) To use or practice the art of typography; to take impressions of letters, figures, or electrotypes, engraved plates, or the like.
  • (v. i.) To publish a book or an article.
  • (n.) A mark made by impression; a line, character, figure, or indentation, made by the pressure of one thing on another; as, the print of teeth or nails in flesh; the print of the foot in sand or snow.
  • (n.) A stamp or die for molding or impressing an ornamental design upon an object; as, a butter print.
  • (n.) That which receives an impression, as from a stamp or mold; as, a print of butter.
  • (n.) Printed letters; the impression taken from type, as to excellence, form, size, etc.; as, small print; large print; this line is in print.
  • (n.) That which is produced by printing.
  • (n.) An impression taken from anything, as from an engraved plate.
  • (n.) A printed publication, more especially a newspaper or other periodical.
  • (n.) A printed cloth; a fabric figured by stamping, especially calico or cotton cloth.
  • (n.) A photographic copy, or positive picture, on prepared paper, as from a negative, or from a drawing on transparent paper.
  • (n.) A core print. See under Core.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The small print revealed that Osborne claimed a fall in borrowing largely by factoring in the proceeds of a 4G telecomms auction that has not yet happened.
  • (2) When very large series of strains are considered, the coding can be completely done and printed out by any computer through a very simple program.
  • (3) A combined plot of all results from the four separate papers, which is ordered alphabetically by chemical, is available from L. S. Gold, in printed form or on computer tape or diskette.
  • (4) "We were very disappointed when the DH decided to suspend printing Reduce the Risk, a vital resource in the prevention of cot death in the UK", said Francine Bates, chief executive of the Foundation for the Study of Infant Deaths, which helped produce the booklet.
  • (5) How does it stack up against the competition – and are there any nasties in the small print?
  • (6) A wide range of development possibilities for the printed circuit microelectrode are discussed.
  • (7) Because while some of these alt-currencies show promise, many aren't worth the paper they're not printed on.
  • (8) This week they are wrestling with the difficult issue of how prisoners can order clothes for themselves now that clothing companies are discontinuing their printed catalogues and moving online.
  • (9) These letters are also written during a period when Joyce was still smarting from the publishing difficulties of his earlier works Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.” Gordon Bowker, Joyce’s biographer, agreed: “Joyce’s problem with the UK printers related to the fact that here in those days printers were as much at risk of prosecution on charges of publishing obscenities as were publishers, and would simply refuse to print them.
  • (10) In the 1980s when she began, no newspaper would even print the words 'breast cancer'.
  • (11) Information and titles for this bibliography were gleaned from printed indexes and university medical center libraries.
  • (12) Subscribers to the paper's print and digital editions also now contribute to half the volume of its total sales.
  • (13) A microcomputer system is described for the collection, analysis and printing of the physiological data gathered during a urodynamic investigation.
  • (14) Many other innovations are also being hailed as the future of food, from fake chicken to 3D printing and from algae to lab-grown meat.
  • (15) The four are the spoken language, the written language, the printing press and the electronic computer.
  • (16) Comparison of these tracks and the Hadar hominid foot fossils by Tuttle has led him to conclude that Australopithecus afarensis did not make the Tanzanian prints and that a more derived form of hominid is therefore indicated at Laetoli.
  • (17) The conversation between the two men, printed in Monday's edition of Wprost news magazine , reveals the extent of the fallout between Poland and the UK over Cameron's proposals to change EU migrants' access to benefits.
  • (18) Brand names would instead be printed in small type and feature large health warnings and gruesome, full-colour images of the consequences of smoking.
  • (19) An interactive image-processing workstation enables rapid image retrieval, reduces the examination repeat rate, provides for image enhancement, and rapidly sets the desired display parameters for laser-printed images.
  • (20) But printing money year after year to pay for things you can’t afford doesn’t work – and no good Keynesian would ever call for it.

Rotogravure


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Eighteen of the rotogravure printers and one of the referents were heavy drinkers of alcohol.
  • (2) The printers had been exposed to solvents for 9 to 25 years during employment at flexo and rotogravure printing plants, while the controls had no history of solvent exposure.
  • (3) One hundred and sixty rotogravure printing workers exposed mainly to toluene are compared (clinical examination, liver and kidney tests) to 38 unexposed workers.
  • (4) Neurotoxic effects of toluene were examined in 43 male rotogravure printers exposed to toluene (age 27-63, mean 41 years; duration of exposure 11-40, mean 22 years) and 31 male offset printers of the same age with slight exposure to aliphatic hydrocarbons.
  • (5) Exposure to toluene in two publication rotogravure plants was investigated to examine how accurately long-term exposure can be estimated on the basis of production rate.
  • (6) The high incidence of aberrations could be explained by the exposure to toluene, but the influence of rotogravure printing dyes cannot be excluded.
  • (7) The rotogravure printers performance was inferior to the referents in tests measuring visual cognitive abilities.
  • (8) In 1985, 30 rotogravure printers exposed to toluene for 4-43 years (median 29) were examined by means of interviews and psychometric testing.
  • (9) Visual evoked potentials (VEPs) from stimulation by checkerboard pattern reversal were examined in 54 rotogravure printers exposed to toluene (all men, aged 22-64 years, duration of exposure 1-41 years).
  • (10) In a cross-sectional study of 181 male workers of a rotogravure printing plant, most of whom were exposed to toluene levels well above the GDR threshold limit values, 55 subjects revealed pathological liver screening values (activities of serum aspartate aminotransferase, alanine aminotransferase, gamma glutamyltransferase; liver size).
  • (11) Toluene exposure was studied in 62 male rotogravure printers, employed in three plants.
  • (12) Using cytogenetic analysis of peripheral lymphocytes the authors examined three groups of subjects: 42 rotogravure printers exposed to toluene in concentrations of 400-4400 mg.m-3 for a mean period of 13 years, 28 administrative employees of the printing plant exposed to low concentrations of toluene (8-16 mg.m-3) in their offices, whereby more than half of them spent on average two hours in the photogravure workshop, and 32 control subjects.
  • (13) Forty-three male rotogravure printers with long-term toluene exposure and 31 age- and sex-matched offset printers without toluene exposure were examined in detail.
  • (14) Chromosome analyses were carried out in peripheral lymphocytes of 27 workers exposed to toluene in a rotogravure plant.
  • (15) In 28 office and technical employees of the same plant, more than half of whom worked 2 h daily in the rotogravure workshop, an increased percentage of aberrant cells and chromatid breaks was also found.
  • (16) A cohort of 1020 rotogravure printers exposed to toluene and employed for a minimum period of three months in eight plants during 1925-85 was studied.
  • (17) A psychological test battery was administered to a group of 43 rotogravure printers exposed to toluene (mean age 41 years, mean duration of exposure 22 years) and to a referent group comprising 31 offset printers of the same age.
  • (18) Four groups of workers of the rotogravure, shoe and plastic industries, all exposed to toluene, were studied by the authors.

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