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Gravure can also print line and process work with the same fountain, he notes, while other processes must split them into separate fountains. Gravure's accommodation of line and process can reduce a 9-color job to a 5-color job.

From the perspective of Dieter Langendorf, president of BHS Printing Machinery, gravure's share of business continues to slide over to flexo, but within gravure printing narrow-web has shown "significant growth...because of the trend to ever-shorter run length."