roll-to-roll

English

Adjective

roll-to-roll (not comparable)

1. (manufacturing) Involving the use of a continuous roll of substrate material that is fed through various processing steps such as printing, coating, or etching.
   • 1970, James N. Strohlein, Thomas C. Bagg, A Selective Roll-to-roll Printer for Producing Duplicate Microfilm Copies:

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

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

     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.

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

     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.