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rosa gravura

Looking for the definition of this phrase. Think it's used in photography but unable to find. -- 2602:304:CFE0:61D9:CCED:E8A7:96B1:83FF (talk · contribs)

I suspect you're thinking of Rotogravure. Not a word you hear often, but it's in the lyrics of "Easter Parade": "On the avenue, fifth avenue, the photographers will snap us, And you'll find that you're in the rotogravure." ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 00:07, 29 November 2017 (UTC)

Most of the content of old newspapers roughly 50 to 100 years ago was black and white text with fairly low quality black and white drawings and photos. Often, a few pages or a section would be printed using the much higher quality rotogravure process, with vibrant colors and higher resolution photos, printed on shiny paper. The rotogravure section might have photos of celebrities and ads by big companies. Here's a description by the Smithsonian Institution. Cullen³²⁸ Let's discuss it 21:00, 29 November 2017 (UTC)

The first photographs transmitted by wire – i.e., fax – was sent in 1865. Scanning arose in the 1880s and the radiofax allowed newspapers to make extensive use of photographs by the mid-1920s. DOR (HK) (talk) 16:42, 1 December 2017 (UTC)

US currency is printed by rotogravure, iirc. 173.228.123.121 (talk) 07:36, 6 December 2017 (UTC)

Macmillan Publishers vs. Macmillan Science and Education

The lemma is Macmillan Publishers, but at the end of the first paragraph in the History section, suddenly the term Macmillan Science and Education appears. So, are they one and the same thing or where they before? If not, it might be useful to introduce the aforesaid designation, mightn't it? Best regards--Herfrid (talk) 16:25, 29 November 2017 (UTC)

Macmillan Science and Education and Macmillan Publishers are divisions of the Holtzbrinck Publishing Group. So no, not the same. Henry^Flower 09:40, 30 November 2017 (UTC)