Patent ID: 8586277

Claim:
A method for variable data lithography, comprising: applying a first electrostatic charge to a photoreceptor; applying an electrolytic image definition material over said photoreceptor such that said electrolytic image definition material is disposed over a surface of a region of said photoreceptor; applying a second electrostatic charge to a said electrolytic image definition material; selectively exposing said region of said photoreceptor while said surface of said region is communicatively coupled to a mechanism for charging to thereby form an exposure pattern from regions that are exposed and unexposed by said exposure subsystem on said surface of said photoreceptor, said exposure altering the electrostatic charge on said photoreceptor to thereby define regions of said photoreceptor having a first electrostatic charge state to which said electrolytic image definition material may be preferentially attracted and a second electrostatic charge state to which said electrolytic image definition material may not be preferentially attracted, to thereby form a patterned electrolytic image definition material layer; transferring said patterned electrolytic image definition material layer to a reimageable surface of an imaging member; and selectively applying ink over said reimageable surface such that said ink preferentially occupies selected regions of said patterned electrolytic image definition material layer on said reimageable surface to thereby form an inked image over said reimageable surface.