Printing – Planographic – Lithographic plate making – and processes of making or using...
Patent
1998-06-03
1999-10-12
Eickholt, Eugene
Printing
Planographic
Lithographic plate making, and processes of making or using...
347262, 707520, 395109, 395111, 395117, 359196, 101483, B41C 110
Patent
active
059641568
ABSTRACT:
A method for automatically processing a job in a prepress printing environment includes the steps of: moving an image receiving substrate from a storage bin to a staging area; moving the image receiving substrate from the staging area into a drum; imaging a predefined area of the image receiving substrate in the drum with a laser while simultaneously moving a next image receiving substrate from the storage bin to the staging area; upon completion of the imaging of the image receiving substrate in the drum, simultaneously (a) moving the image receiving substrate from the drum into a processing area for developing an image on the image receiving substrate, and (b) moving the next image receiving substrate from the staging area into the drum; and finally repeating the above steps until the job is completed. The method optionally includes: offsetting the position of the image receiving substrate to alter the location upon the image receiving substrate where the image will be burned; or offsetting the laser position to alter the location upon the image receiving substrate where the image will be burned. A slug line can also be printed at print time outside of the predefined area, and can include identifying information such as a job name, a print drive job identification, a time stamp, a plane name, a page number and user-defined graphics.
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Catt Jeremy C.
Smith David D.
Agfa Corporation
Eickholt Eugene
Sabourin Robert A.
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