The Heliograph Holding Companies offer a unique synthesis of comprehensive experience and know-how in high-quality gravure cylinder making equipment. The group provides reliable solutions in the areas of electroplating, automation, surface finishing, electromechanic engraving and laser engraving systems for rotogravure printing as well as direct laser systems for relief printing. Daetwyler Graphics is Heliograph´s competence center for surface machining, providing solutions that set standards in process reliability in gravure cylinderproduction, making it a trusted industry partner. The appropriate machining method gives printing form cylinders the required diameter and the necessary surface quality with micrometer precision. This is important, because it has a big impact on the achievable print quality. High­-precision machines from Daetwyler Graphics turn, mill, grind, and polish copper surfaces. Polishing machines with various abrasives are available for all surfaces. It is also possible to integrate the polishing machines into automated lines.