摘要:
A plate imaging apparatus and method for imaging a seamless printing member preferably loaded onto a rotating plate cylinder. The plate imaging apparatus moves a writing head in fixed increments in an axial direction relative to the plate cylinder. With the writing head fixed at a first axial position, the imaging apparatus causes a circumferential swath to be imaged onto the seamless printing member commencing from a first starting point. With the plate cylinder still rotating, the imaging apparatus then steps the writing head to the next axial position, thereby defining a second starting point once the writing head is ready to resume imaging that is offset from the first starting point. The imaging apparatus then causes a second circumferential swath to be imaged onto the seamless printing member commencing from the second starting point.
摘要:
Electrode-driver circuits for use with non-contact spark-discharge imaging systems. The circuits rapidly produce short-duration, high-voltage pulses that cause the discharge of a spark to the surface of a printing plate; they feature short rise times, rapid operation and clean decays, thereby facilitating high-speed spark-discharge imaging.
摘要:
Electrode-driver circuits for use with non-contact spark-discharge imaging systems. The circuits rapidly produce short-duration, high-voltage pulses that cause the discharge of a spark to the surface of a printing plate; they feature short rise times, rapid operation and clean decays, thereby facilitating high-speed spark-discharge imaging.
摘要:
A persistent ionization plasma generator is described that forms a plasma in a cavity that persists for a time after termination of the exciting RF electric field. The plasma generator includes a RF cavity that is in fluid communication with a source of ionizing gas. The RF cavity can be at substantially atmospheric pressure. An RF power source that generates an RF electric field is electromagetically coupled to the RF cavity. An ultraviolet light source is positioned in optical communication to the cavity. An antenna is positioned within the cavity adjacent to the ultraviolet light source. A chamber for confining the plasma can be positioned in the cavity around the antenna.
摘要:
Techniques for imaging lithographic printing members responsive to the output of laser devices. Laser output passes through at least one discrete layer and ablates one or more underlying layers, resulting in an imagewise pattern of features on the printing member. The image features exhibit an affinity for ink or an ink-abhesive fluid that differs from that of unexposed areas.
摘要:
A persistent ionization plasma generator is described that forms a plasma in a cavity that persists for a time after termination of the exciting RF electric field. The plasma generator includes a RF cavity that is in fluid communication with a source of ionizing gas. The RF cavity can be at substantially atmospheric pressure. An RF power source that generates an RF electric field is electromagnetically coupled to the RF cavity. An ultraviolet light source is positioned in optical communication to the cavity. An antenna is positioned within the cavity adjacent to the ultraviolet light source. A chamber for confining the plasma can be positioned in the cavity around the antenna.
摘要:
Apparatus and methods for imaging lithographic plates using laser devices that emit in the near-infrared region, and plates suitable for imaging with the apparatus and methods. Laser output either ablates one or more plate layers or physically transforms a surface layer, in either case resulting in an imagewise pattern of features on the plate. The image features exhibit an affinity for ink or an ink-abhesive fluid that differs from that of unexposed areas.
摘要:
Printing apparatus has at least one print station including a blanket cylinder in rolling contact with an impression cylinder, a print cylinder for supporting a lithographic plate, the plate cylinder being in rolling contact with the blanket cylinder, at least one discharge source for applying an image to a plate supported by the plate cylinder, and a motor for moving the energy source relative to the plate cylinder so that when the plate cylinder is rotated, the discharge source scans a raster on the surface of the plate supported by the plate cylinder. The apparatus may be configured as an in-line or central-impression type press. A controller responsive to picture signals representing an original document repeatedly actuates each discharge source momentarily during the scan thereof so that the discharge source forms on the plate surface an image comprised of dots corresponding to the original document. The controller includes a dot-position look-up table for storing the x and y coordinates of substantially all dot positions on the plate and is arranged to actuate each energy source to form image dots at selected ones of the dot positions when said picture signals are present. The apparatus also includes provision for regulating the ink applied to the plate at each print station.
摘要:
A printing member for a press with dampening is made by forming in a metal body an exposed surface which is cleaned and polished sufficiently to render it oleophilic due to surface tension. Then the surface is heated at selected image points thereon without contacting the surface and without penetrating through the body to create tiny surface fissures or capillaries at the image points which render the surface hydrophilic at the image points.
摘要:
A lithographic plate for printing without dampening comprising a strong stable substrate, an oleophobic surface layer on the substrate and an oleophilic surface underlying the surface layer, the surface layer being decomposable by spark discharges originating from a non-contacting electrode scanned across the plate surface. A preferred plate embodiment includes a multiplicity of tiny electrically conductive peaks in the plate which point away from the substrate and are in a relatively uniform distribution across the plate surface area.