a printing process using a cylinder etched with many small recesses, from which ink is transferred to a moving web of paper, plastic, etc, in a rotary press
2.
printed material produced in this way, esp magazines
Often shortened to: roto
Word origin
C20: from Latin rota wheel + gravure
rotogravure in American English
(ˌroʊtəgrəˈvjʊr; ˈroʊtəˌgreɪvjər)
US
noun
1.
a printing process using photogravure cylinders on a rotary press
2.
a print or newspaper pictorial section printed by this process