Rotogravure Printing is a procedure of printing pictures over a flat plastic surface. Nowadays there are lots of printed food packets and other packets which are print by rotogravure printing. This type of printing is very common in the food and nourishment industry. This type of printing is common for stand-up pouches where the image is etch on the cylinder.
In the beginning, the cylinder is prepared and an image is engrave on it. These cylinders are made out of steel. First, the plain sheet of steel is roll in the shape of a cylinder. After that, the cylinder is connect with the steel core.
Then it is polish and buffed and later coated with a copper layer. After that, the cylinder is engraved and the needed impressions is etching on the surface by the rotary printing press and it is coated with steel which increases strength and resilience. Also, the cylinder gets a unique identification number for proof purposes.
Before installing in the machine, the roller is inspected and packed. The plastic pouches and food packaging are print with rotogravure printing which provides them an excellent image quality, less production cost, and enhanced the life span of printing cylinders.
Qualities of Rotogravure Printing Cylinder
It has a high caliber on a huge volume substrate.
It has negligible picture debasing.
Best result on low rates.
Maximum quality for picture multiplication
The rotogravure has an excellent ability of printing and gravure helps to transform as much ink on paper. You will amazed to know that that rotogravure printing prints at 45 feet or 14 meters per second and it may be higher. Also, it can print up to 7 million four shade pages every hour. It is suitable for printing purposes for a huge amount of copies with utmost efficiency and effectiveness. The numerous qualities make the rotogravure printing machine a perfect solution for various printing.
