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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 15, 2023
Filed:
Sep. 04, 2019
Applicant:
Esko-graphics Imaging Gmbh, Itzehoe, DE;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B41N 1/12 (2006.01); B41C 1/05 (2006.01); B41M 1/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B41N 1/12 (2013.01); B41C 1/05 (2013.01); B41M 1/04 (2013.01);
Abstract
Systems and processes for making a flexo plate, and plates made thereby. Non-printing indicia defined by areas of presence and absence of polymer in the plate floor created using microdots imaged during a LAMS layer imaging step are readable downstream of the washing or other non-cured-polymer-removal step but not to print in the printing step. The non-printing indicia may define a repeating pattern of alphanumeric characters, non-text graphics, or a combination thereof. A difference in growth of plate structures corresponding to different types of microdots may be used for characterizing processing conditions.