Method and apparatus for imaging a seamless print medium

Details Method and apparatus for imaging a seamless print medium Method and apparatus for imaging a seamless print medium

1997-02-26

1999-02-09

Funk, Stephen R.

Printing

Planographic

Lithographic plate making, and processes of making or using...

1014011, 101485, 347247, 347250, 358299, 358448, B41C 104

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active

058680756

ABSTRACT:
A plate imaging apparatus and method for imaging a seamless printing member preferably loaded onto a rotating plate cylinder. The plate imaging apparatus moves a writing head in fixed increments in an axial direction relative to the plate cylinder. With the writing head fixed at a first axial position, the imaging apparatus causes a circumferential swath to be imaged onto the seamless printing member commencing from a first starting point. With the plate cylinder still rotating, the imaging apparatus then steps the writing head to the next axial position, thereby defining a second starting point once the writing head is ready to resume imaging that is offset from the first starting point. The imaging apparatus then causes a second circumferential swath to be imaged onto the seamless printing member commencing from the second starting point.

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