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roll-to-roll

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.

Adjective

roll-to-roll (not comparable)

  1. Involving 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
    • 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

Questions about roll-to-roll

What does roll-to-roll mean?
Roll-to-roll means involving the use of a continuous roll of substrate material that is fed through various processing steps such as printing, coating, or etching.
What part of speech is roll-to-roll?
Roll-to-roll is an adjective.

Words near roll-to-roll in the dictionary

  1. roll-out
  2. roll-outs
  3. roll-over
  4. roll-overs
  5. roll-playing
  6. roll-to-roll
  7. roll-top
  8. roll-top desk
  9. roll-top desks
  10. roll-tops
  11. roll-up

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