Patent ID: 11915072
Assignee: AGFA OFFSET BV
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  B  H | IPC B  G  H

Claim 7:
8. A flexographic printing plate comprising a halftone raster image for rendering a continuous-tone image, wherein said halftone raster image comprises a plurality of regularly tiled halftone dots wherein a distance between feed points (1003, 2003) between each neighboring halftone dots is from 50 μm to 400 μm,
wherein each of said halftone dots comprises:
(a) image pixels arranged as a first arc (200) or as a plurality of arcs which together represent a first spiral (100) and
(b) non-image pixels arranged as a second arc (201) or as a plurality of arcs which together represent a second spiral (101),
wherein the outer ends of the first spirals of neighbor halftone dots of said plurality of regularly tiled halftone dots are connected to represent a double spiral or triple spiral, and
wherein the first spiral defines ink accepting areas.