To provide a high-quality gravure printing plate which can represent gradation-rich/fine characters and lines of image view and shows high registering precision and has no defects due to refuse or the like.
This gravure printing plate is constituted of main cells 10 which are variable in size, the maximum size being defined by the number of screen lines and the minimum size being as specified allowing the transfer of ink to be successfully performed and fine subcells 20 which are disposed between the main cells 10, with the ratio of aperture area represented by 1 to 3% of the fine subcells 20. In addition, the fine subcells 20 are each arranged between the main cell 10 and the main cell 10 and disposed at 45° in a rotating direction to the disposition of the main cells 10 in such a way that the interval X between the disposition rows of the fine subcells 20 is equivalent to 1/√2 of the interval Y between the main cells 10. The fine subcells 20 are arranged in a region where the ratio of aperture area of the main cells 10 is equivalent to not more than 60 %.
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MATSUNAGA KAZUO
