Patent ID: 8772740

Claim:
A method of imaging a printing plate with imaging data and curing the printing plate made of or having photo-curable material thereon, the photo-curable material including an ablatable mask thereon, the method comprising: imaging the ablatable mask on the printing plate with a first portion of imaging data to produce a partially imaged uncured plate, the imaging data comprising the first portion of imaging data and a second portion of imaging data; curing the partially imaged uncured plate using light energy at a wavelength or wavelengths suitable for curing the photo-curable material with a first set of one or more curing parameters to produce a partially cured plate with a partially ablated mask thereon, the curing providing total energy per unit time per unit area arranged for producing flat top features; imaging the partially ablated mask on the partially cured plate with the second portion of imaging data to produce a totally imaged partially cured plate; curing the totally imaged partially cured plate with a second set of one or more curing parameters to produce a totally cured plate, the curing providing total energy per unit time per unit area arranged for producing round top features, wherein the first set of imaging parameters and the second set of imaging parameters are arranged such that the first portion of imaging data has printing features with flat tops on the totally cured plate and the second portion of imaging data has printing features with round tops on the totally cured plate.