Forming a flexographic plate
AssigneeEastman Kodak Company
InventorRichard R. Bielak
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Abstract
A system for forming a flexographic plate includes a digital front end (DFE) for rendering a halftone image; wherein the DFE identifies pixels in the halftone image as being part of an edge region or interior region based on the pixels proximity to an edge image features; wherein the DFE applies a fine pattern to each of the edge regions; wherein the DFE applies a coarse pattern to each of the interior regions; an interface for transmitting the patterned image to an imaging device; and wherein the imaging device images the flexographic plate with the patterned image.
Claims7
A system for forming a flexographic plate comprising:
- a digital front end (DFE) for rendering a halftone image;
- wherein the DFE identifies pixels in the halftone image as being part of an edge region or interior region based on the pixels proximity to an edge feature;
- Wherein the DFE alters each of the edge regions in the halftone image with fine pattern data to form a portion of an altered half tome image;
- wherein the DFE alters each of the interior regions in the halftone image with coarse pattern data to form another portion of the altered half tone image;
- an interface for transmitting the altered half tone image to an imaging device;
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- wherein the imaging device images the flexographic plate with the altered half tone image.
A system for forming a flexographic plate comprising:
- a digital front end (DFE) for rendering a halftone image;
- wherein the DFE detects an edge region of image features and alters edge region data with a fine pixel mask pattern to form a fine pattern edge and wherein the DFE detects an interior region of image features and alters interior region data with a coarse pixel mask pattern to form a coarse patterned interior, and wherein the DFE combines the fine patterned edge and the coarse patterned interior into an altered patterned image;
- an interface which transmits the altered patterned image to an imaging device;
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- wherein the imaging device images the flexographic plate.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.