Patent ID: 8755088
Filing Date: 2014-06-17
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented method for producing a halftone image, said method comprising producing in a computer memory halftone cells of said image, the ink-bearing portion of the halftone cells arranged in a repeating pattern characterized by a smallest dimension in which there is repetition of ink-bearing features between or within said halftone cells, in which the ink bearing portion of a specific halftone cell is at least 15% of the area of the cell, using a ink-bearing pattern in said specific halftone cell in which the greatest distance from any point inside an ink bearing portion of the cell to a non-ink-bearing portion of the cell is no greater than 15% of the smallest dimension in which there is repetition of printed features between or within said halftone cells, and generating a printing plate containing said halftone image.