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US 9,067,402 B1Granted
Forming an image on a flexographic media
AssigneeEastman Kodak Company
InventorRichard R. Bielak
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Abstract
A method for forming an image on a flexographic plate includes exposing a back of the flexographic plate to form a floor; providing a screened image; locating isolated dots on the screened image; exposing a front of the flexographic plate to form the image, isolated dots and scaffold dots adjacent to the isolated dots; wherein the scaffold dots do not extend to the floor; and applying a solvent to wash away the unexposed material and the scaffold dots from the flexographic plate.
Claims4
A method for forming an image on a flexographic plate comprising:
- exposing a back of said flexographic plate to form a floor;
- providing a screened image;
- locating isolated dots on said screened image;
- exposing a front of said flexographic plate with said screened image, wherein said frontal exposure forms said screened image, isolated dots and scaffold dots adjacent, wherein said scaffold dots are to said isolated dots on said flexographic plate, and wherein said scaffold dots do not extend to said floor;
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- applying a solvent to wash away unexposed material and said scaffold dots from said flexographic plate.
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