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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 30, 2011
Filed:
Feb. 05, 2008
Shay Dardikman, Tel-Aviv, IL;
Yoav Telem, Kfar-Schmaryahu, IL;
Stephen H. Miller, Silver Spring, MD (US);
Shay Dardikman, Tel-Aviv, IL;
Yoav Telem, Kfar-Schmaryahu, IL;
Stephen H. Miller, Silver Spring, MD (US);
Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, NY (US);
Abstract
A method for reducing waste in imaging of flexographic plates comprises the steps of: receiving an electronic art file (); displaying the file on a computer display; selecting a set of polygonal areas () from the displayed file in response to cost calculation associated with the selection of the set of polygonal areas; automatically offering alternative polygonal areas based on automatic cost calculation analysis based on the selection of the polygonal areas; ganging the polygonal areas into a compacted slugs file (); imaging the compacted slugs file on a flexographic imaging device to produce compacted flexographic plate (); cutting the compacted flexographic plate according to the selection the polygonal areas into independent flexographic slug plate pieces (); and mounting the flexographic slug plate pieces on a carrier () while matching the original structure of the electronic art file.