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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 31, 2018
Filed:
May. 03, 2016
Macdermid Graphics Solutions, Llc, Waterbury, CT (US);
Kyle P. Baldwin, Acworth, GA (US);
Jeremy Hogan, Atlanta, GA (US);
Miguel Barboza, Fairburn, GA (US);
Rogelio Sanchez, Fairburn, GA (US);
Other;
Abstract
A method of flood exposing a photocurable printing blank to actinic radiation from a UV LED light source, wherein a high intensity UV LED light source is modulated to a lower intensity. The method includes the steps of: (a) positioning the photocurable printing blank in an exposure unit, wherein the exposure unit comprises one or more high intensity UV LED light sources; (b) modulating intensity of the one or more high intensity UV LED light sources to a lower intensity; and (c) flood exposing the photocurable printing blank through the photographic negative or the digitally imaged mask layer to actinic radiation from the one or more modulated UV LED light sources.