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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 19, 2000
Filed:
Jul. 28, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:
Thomas Klein, Wolfenbuttel, DE;
Hans Dewitte, Brugge, BE;
Assignee:
Barco Graphics, Zwijnaarde, BE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
430 30 ;
Abstract
The present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for creating an output of an imagesetter with high-resolution quality at the speed of low resolution. In the method used, the addressability of the light beam spot or spots of the imagesetter in the slow scan direction is larger than the resolution in that direction.