Gravure printing method with exchangeable printing plate

Abstract

A gravure printing system has a roll body extending along and rotatable about a roll axis and formed with a radially outwardly open and axially extending recess. The roll body has an outer surface with a region outside the surface lying on a cylinder centered on the axis. A generally part-cylindrical printing plate fitted over the roll body has angularly adjacent ends extending radially into the recess. These ends of the plate are fastened to the roll body in the recess. The plate also has an outer surface with a part-cylindrical central part centered on the axis and a pair of end parts flanking the recess and angled inward from the central part so as to define with the axis radii that are increasingly shorter from the central part to the recess.

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