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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 11, 2025
Filed:
Sep. 12, 2023
Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, NY (US);
Jason D. Steadman, Rochester, NY (US);
Michael G. Shaughnessy, Hemlock, NY (US);
Carolyn Rae Ellinger, Rochester, NY (US);
EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY, Rochester, NY (US);
Abstract
An inking system is used to transfer a plurality of different inks to an anilox roller in a flexographic printing plate in a flexographic printing system. A fountain roller includes a plurality of ink transfer zones separated by recessed zones, and a segmented ink tray includes a plurality of ink tray segments corresponding to each of the ink transfer zones, wherein the fountain roller is positioned such that the ink transfer zones contact the anilox roller. Each ink transfer zone of the fountain roller is adapted to receive ink from the corresponding ink tray segment and transfer the received ink to a corresponding zone of the anilox roller.