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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 08, 1992
Filed:
Aug. 16, 1991
Victor Company of Japan, Ltd., Yokohama, JP;
Abstract
A method for manufacturing a color separation plate for screen dot color printing, having screen dots recorded thereon, the size of the screen dots corresponding to the density of one of the primary colors of an image to be printed, by one of the color signals corresponding to respective primary colors and obtained by reading out the image to generate an electric signal corresponding to the image and separating the electric signal into the color signals corresponding to the primary colors, respectively. A sheet of recording material (12) which is transparent and applicable to thermal transfer recording is prepared. Also prepared is a rotatable flat platen (11). The sheet (12) of the recording material is put on the flat platen and the flap platen is rotated by a specific angle from the position where the sheet of the recording material is put on the flat platen. Then, the thermal transfer recording is performed on the sheet of recording material, in accordance with one of the color signals, to manufacture the color separation plate corresponding to one of the primary colors.