photogravure

English Thesaurus

1. using photography to produce a plate for printing (noun.act)

hypernym	:	gravure,
definition	:	the act of intaglio printing (noun.act)

2. an intaglio print produced by gravure (noun.artifact)

hypernym	:	print,
definition	:	a picture or design printed from an engraving (noun.artifact)

3. printing from an intaglio plate prepared by photographic methods (noun.communication)

hypernym	:	gravure, intaglio, intaglio printing,
definition	:	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 (noun.communication)

hyponym	:	rotogravure,
definition	:	printing by transferring an image from a photogravure plate to a cylinder in a rotary press (noun.communication)