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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 05, 2002
Filed:
Jul. 25, 2000
Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd., Kanagawa, JP;
Abstract
A plate making apparatus of a flexible plate material being placed on a plate cylinder for executing planographic printing in multiple colors. The plate making apparatus has a cutter being placed between a storage section of a roll-like plate material and an exposure section for cutting the roll-like plate material like a sheet and punch means for making plate cylinder engagement holes and in the left and right margins of the plate material along the transport direction thereof, the plate cylinder engagement holes to be engaged in protrusions an disposed in the circumferential direction of the left and right margins of the plate cylinder. Accordingly, it is possible to provide a plate making apparatus which reliably holds a plate material on a plate cylinder for enabling planographic printing and can use a roll-like plate material.