Talk:Rotogravure

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My 91-year old mom told me a "rotogravure", as used in the popular Irving Berlin song of her day, "Easter Parade", indicated (that your photo might be in) a sepia-toned section of an otherwise all black and white newspaper.

[edit] Japanese models

gravure seems to be a word used for pictures of Japanese models.

[edit] Some images please

I was desperately looking for a wikipedia entry explaining those strange raster-dots that give this printing technique its special "look". Luckily I found some nice pages which described the process of transfering a photo to gelatin-covered carbon tissue through a raster for etching later on. Unfortunately, I can't just rip their images and put them here - so maybe I'll make some SVGs to illustrate the process.

If someone else already has some images at hand, it would be nice to have them here - especially something like this: cells and methods

References (maybe some else is better in merging them with the existing wiki-text?):

• Rotogravure
• Gravure
• Early printing: carbon print

The rooker 11:37, 6 May 2007 (UTC)