Color screen indicator
OwnerJoseph F. Huckinventor
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Abstract
A composite indicator for use with overlay process color screen tints in offset color printing comprised of a composite screen made of relatively angled color screens. The respective dot patterns of the color screens have the word of the process color associated with that angle worked in by an out-of-phase dot pattern with respect to that screen background dot pattern. An overlaying color screen, when properly angled, causes, by out-of-phase moire pattern effect, the name of that color to be visually readable as a relatively lighter or darker pattern on a contrasting background.
Claims8
An angle indicator for use with overlaying ones of offset color printing screens comprising a unitary composite screen film having a plurality of superimposed rectilinear dot patterns, each arranged as a rectangular array of rows and columns of dots and each defined by a respective one of multiple exposed dot pattern images on said unitary screen film, with each said dot pattern associated with an individual different one of plural process colors, said dot pattern exposed images being respectively relatively angularly oriented, one to the other, each of said dot patterns being formed with predetermined portions thereof within which the dot rows are shifted midway between dot rows of the remainder of that pattern and the dot columns are shifted midway between dot columns of the remainder of that pattern, and with said predetermined portions of each of said dot patterns being respectively distinctively different.
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