Editing Rotogravure (section)

== History and development ==
In the 19th century, a  number of developments in photography allowed the production of photo-mechanical printing plates. [[Henry Fox Talbot]] mentions in 1852 the use of a textile in the photographic process to create half-tones in the printing plate.<ref name="Lilien">{{cite book |last=Lilien |first=Otto M. |title=History of Industrial Gravure Printing up to 1920 |date= |publisher=Lund Humphries |year=1972 |edition=first English |location=London}}</ref>{{rp|19–21}} A French patent in 1860 describes a reel-fed gravure press.<ref name="Lilien" />{{rp|22}}  A collaboration between [[Karel Klíč|Karel Klič]] and Samuel Fawcett, in Lancaster resulted in the founding of the Rembrandt Intaglio Printing Company in 1895, which company produced art prints.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Rotogravure Process, Articles & Essays, Newspaper Pictorials: World War I Rotogravures, 1914-1919 |url=https://www.loc.gov/collections/world-war-i-rotogravures/articles-and-essays/the-rotogravure-process/ |access-date=2023-10-19 |website=Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Tarr |first=John Charles |title=Printing to-day |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |year=1949 |edition=revised |location=London |pages=110 |language=en |chapter=Chapter X. Printing Processes To-Day: Photogravure}}</ref> In 1906 they marketed the first multi-colour gravure print.<ref name="Lilien" />{{rp|30–50}}

In 1912 Messrs Bruckman in Munich produced proofs for Bavarian postage stamps which went into production in 1914.  Also in 1912 newspaper supplements printed by reel-fed gravure were on sale in London and Berlin (''[[The Illustrated London News]]'' and ''Der Weltspiegel'').<ref name="Lilien" />{{rp|128}}

[[Irving Berlin]]'s song [[Easter Parade (song)|"Easter Parade"]] specifically refers to this type of supplements in the lines "the photographers will snap us, and you'll find that you're in the rotogravure." And the song "[[Hooray for Hollywood]]" contains the line "…armed with photos from local rotos" referring to young actresses hoping to make it in the movie industry. In 1976, ex-Beatle [[Ringo Starr]] released an album titled ''[[Ringo's Rotogravure]]''.

Gravure is one of several printing techniques being actively used in the field of [[printed electronics]].