roll-to-roll

adjective

Involving the use of a continuous roll of substrate material that is fed through various processing steps such as printing, coating, or etching.

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adjectiveroll-to-roll (not comparable)
  1. not comparablebusinessInvolving the use of a continuous roll of substrate material that is fed through various processing steps such as printing, coating, or etching.

    Basically it is a roll-to-roll printer specifically designed to generate duplicate frames on diazo film.

    1970, James N. Strohlein, Thomas C. Bagg, A Selective Roll-to-roll Printer for Producing Duplicate Microfilm Copies
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    The master negative may be used in this form for roll-to-roll duplication or may be cut into individual units for duplication by other methods.

    1974, H. Müller, G. Thiele, G. Müller, State-of-art Survey on Technology and Use of Roll Microfilm, Microfiche and Other Microforms, page 9

    This same process can be used on a roll-to-roll coating system where a single layer of polymer followed by the metal coating process can be done as a single pass.

    2010, Charles A. Bishop, Roll-to-Roll Vacuum Deposition of Barrier Coatings
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