Gravure printing method

A gravure printing method of conducting printing on a printing substrate with an aqueous ink reserved in an ink pan using a furnisher roll, a gravure roll, a doctor blade and a nip roll, in which:

• the aqueous ink comprises a pigment, a polymer, an organic solvent, a surfactant and water;
• a content of organic solvent components of the organic solvent which have a boiling point of not lower than 100° C. and not higher than 260° C. in the aqueous ink is not less than 1% by mass and not more than 9% by mass;
• an average particle size of particles of the pigment is not less than 190 nm and not more than 250 nm;
• in a particle size distribution of particles in the aqueous ink, a frequency of the particles having a particle size of not more than 130 nm is not more than 40% by volume;
• in a particle size distribution of the particles in the aqueous ink, a polydispersity index of the particles in the aqueous ink is not less than 0.18 and not more than 0.3;
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• an arithmetic mean roughness (Ra) of a plate surface of the gravure roll is not less than 20 nm and not more than 130 nm.