Printing plate with a mesh layer forming pigment storing wells

Abstract

A printing plate with a mesh material, a removable substrate, a substrate, and a paper backing on said substrate. The mesh material has interstices and has first and second surfaces. The substrate is adhered to one of the first and second surfaces of the mesh material and forms a well defined at its bottom by the substrate and at its sides by the interstices of the mesh material, wherein the well receives and stores pigment for printing. Multiple colors of pigment may be stored simultaneously within the wells of the printing plate, thereby enabling those multiple colors to be printed concurrently in a single printing pass operation.

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