EP1577085B1 - Dispositif de contrôle visuel des plaques d'impression exposées - Google Patents

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EP1577085B1
EP1577085B1 EP05101802A EP05101802A EP1577085B1 EP 1577085 B1 EP1577085 B1 EP 1577085B1 EP 05101802 A EP05101802 A EP 05101802A EP 05101802 A EP05101802 A EP 05101802A EP 1577085 B1 EP1577085 B1 EP 1577085B1
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
    • B41C—PROCESSES FOR THE MANUFACTURE OR REPRODUCTION OF PRINTING SURFACES
    • B41C1/00—Forme preparation
    • B41C1/10—Forme preparation for lithographic printing; Master sheets for transferring a lithographic image to the forme
    • B41C1/1083—Mechanical aspects of off-press plate preparation
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
    • B41N—PRINTING PLATES OR FOILS; MATERIALS FOR SURFACES USED IN PRINTING MACHINES FOR PRINTING, INKING, DAMPING, OR THE LIKE; PREPARING SUCH SURFACES FOR USE AND CONSERVING THEM
    • B41N1/00—Printing plates or foils; Materials therefor

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  • the present invention relates to a visual inspection device on exposed printing plates for printing machines, which is applied on exposure of the printing plate in the form of at least one control mark on the printing plate.
  • the printing process is basically divided into prepress, printing press and postpress.
  • the goal of any printing process is to produce print products that match as closely as possible a print template.
  • the print template may once be present as a template print, but it may also be available digitally as an image file.
  • a print template as an image file is processed digitally in the prepress stage by means of a raster image processor for printing, so that the data available thereafter are suitable for the exposure of a printing plate for offset printing presses.
  • different markings and control areas are applied to the printing plate, which are located in the edge regions of the printing plate and z.
  • Tonwertkeile on printing plates in non-printing areas as well as print control strips and register marks in printing areas include.
  • the reference tone values are shown in a fixed grid, for example 200 lines / inch at an angle of 45 ° with respect to the printing plate leading edge obliquely offset in a range of 1 to 100%, while in a parallel second strip the tonal values after process calibration are plotted in the RIP (Raster Image Processor) of the prepress.
  • the reference tonal values are unaffected by the RIP and provide a reference. Based on their respective superimposed tonal values for specific percentages, a comparison for the printing personnel by visual inspection is possible and the deviations can be estimated roughly quantitatively within the scale provided with percentages.
  • ISSDV Image Spot Size Deviation Variables
  • the ISSDVs influence the imaging process of a printing plate so that the dots actually formed on the printing plate deviate from the desired size.
  • the actual size of a halftone dot applied to a medium to be imaged depends not only on the exposure and development, but also on the properties of the medium to be imaged.
  • the control strip has control fields that are relatively insensitive to the ISSDV factors, whereas a background field reacts very sensitively to the ISSDV factors. If the consistency of the control fields does not appear at the number "0", the medium was not optimally imaged or exposed.
  • control device in the form of a control strip is known, which makes the correct setting of the parameters for exposure verifiable. These are process parameters such as the intensity of the exposure light beam or the development temperature during film development.
  • the control strip has tonal values in a first stripe which are relatively insensitive to the exposure process, and the control stripe has a second stripe with tonal values, which are executed as fine grid points and are strongly influenced by the exposure process. By means of the control strip it is thus possible to visually check the exposure process.
  • An optical sensor which checks the plate exposure.
  • the optical sensor detects certain parameters in the imaging process such as the intensity of the exposure beam, the modulation of the exposure beam and the grid dot size and shape.
  • a first image and a second image with different imaging characteristics are acquired.
  • One of the two images is less susceptible to changing imaging parameters than the other image.
  • the first or second image in each case comprises a symbol and is surrounded by the other image in the form of a background.
  • the exposure process can be evaluated and evaluated by means of the optical sensor, and the quality of the exposure can thus be checked.
  • a strip represents an uncalibrated tone scale enlarged by a particular halftone tone value, ie the tonal values of that strip are in the uninfluenced state while the second strip shows the determined halftone tone value as changed by the calibration in the RIP.
  • the control mark in the first strip shows a section of the uncalibrated tonal curve in Fig. 1 finely graduated resolved, the section should be chosen so that an overlap area of the two strips is visible.
  • the tone in which the parallel stripes optically show the same tone, ie the continuous tone of the second stripe is equal to a tone level of the first stripe.
  • the strips are preferably shown in a gray value representation, which means in the case of overlapping that the superposed tone values show the same gray value. If the overlap value is not exactly below the zero mark, there is a deviation in the exposure between the unaffected reference values and the values calibrated during the manufacture of the printing plate. If this deviation does not match the deviation set by the operator or wanted, the exposure process must be changed.
  • the big advantage of the visual assessment on the printing plate lies above all in the fact that not only waste has to occur in the printing press, but that even on the printing plate unintentional deviations can be detected and the printing plate is optionally replaced with an improved, before the printing process in the printing press is started.
  • the uncalibrated tone value progression increases or decreases in steps in its tonal values.
  • the Tonwertverlauf is executed stepped, since then in the comparison of the uncalibrated Tonwertverlaufs even the smallest deviations are clearly visible and thus the overlap value can be visually reliably detected in a relatively small area with small deviations.
  • the steps are sufficiently fine but not too finely chosen, so that they are still visually perceptible, but also show small deviations, which are no longer tolerable.
  • the particular halftone tone value be the 50% tone value.
  • the 50% raster tone value plays an important role in the visual assessment of print products, as this raster tone value has the greatest dynamics in the production process of printing plates and throughout the printing process occurs. For this reason, it is particularly important for the printing staff to be able to detect deviations in the range of the 50% tone value. Therefore, the control device enlarges the range by the 50% value so that the printing personnel can judge it accurately.
  • a display scale with associated percentages is present on the control mark parallel to the two strips.
  • the plotted percentages parallel to the stripes make it possible to assess the difference between the tonal values purely visually and quantitatively. Is the overlap point with the same tone values z. B. at minus 7%, it means that at a halftone tone value of 50%, a reduction has been made by the process calibration in the prepress to 43%. By means of this reading, the operating personnel can check the production process of the printing plate to see whether the settings have been correctly implemented. If the settings resulted in a reduction of the halftone tone value from 50% to 43%, then the manufacturing process for this halftone tone value has been optimally adjusted.
  • the display scale ranges from minus 15% to plus 3%. With such a scale, the overlap value is usually always visible. If, however, this tone equality of the overlap value can not be recognized, this in turn means that the tone change is greater than 3% or less than minus 15% and thus lies outside the display range of the control element.
  • reference tone values which are uninfluenced by the printing process, increase or decrease stepwise in an oblong strip such that a specific raster tone value within the same strip is shown in multiple fine resolution and the particular raster tone value within the same strip is bounded by polygons.
  • a control device always refers to a specific raster tone value such. B. the 50% value.
  • the operator searches the area of the control device in which the unimpeachable reference tone values of the background in the strip and the constant, finely resolved raster tone values of the polygons located therein coincide. Due to the polygonal configuration, even slight deviations in the tonal values can still be assessed visually.
  • an optimum manufacturing process is achieved when the tone value of the polygon and the tone value of the background of the elongate strip in the zero portion of the control mark match.
  • a deviation to be read in accordance with the reference grid and the determined halftone tone value results. If the tone equality sets in the zero section, it means that the exposure energy and the chemical development process in the printing plate production are correctly set.
  • the polygons will essentially be enveloped by a diamond shape.
  • the polygons can also have right-angled corners. These two embodiments of the polygons have proven in practice to be particularly suitable for detecting and distinguishing even small changes between the two tonal values. Due to the diamond shape and the right-angled corners, even the slightest deviations can still be detected visually and the point of intersection of the tone value uniformity on the control mark can thus be reliably detected.
  • tone scale with numerically specified tone changes is present parallel to the stripes.
  • This tonal scale allows a quantitative assessment of the deviation of the two Tonwertverstructure each other.
  • the numerically specified tone value changes range from minus 5 to plus 5. This is a sufficiently large area which contains the tone equality at the point of intersection.
  • a visual inspection device is provided on exposed printing plates for printing presses, in which at least a first elongated strip of the entire Tonwertverlauf is plotted as reference values, that in at least one second strip extending substantially parallel thereto the entire Tonwertverlauf is calibrated and that in at least a third substantially parallel elongated strip, a linearized Tonwertverlauf is applied.
  • This comparison of the invention over the entire tonal range from 1 to 100% additionally shows a linearized tonal value curve for known comparisons of uninfluenced and uncalibrated reference values and the exposure with process calibration.
  • Particularly advantageous embodiments of the invention result from the fact that a pressure plate has several or all control marks according to the invention.
  • the manufacturing process of printing plates is comprehensively controllable visually by the operator.
  • a conventional control mark 1 is shown, which can be seen after the exposure of a printing plate 5 in the prepress on the same.
  • This control mark 1 is also called a Tonwertkeil and serves to control the process calibration in the prepress stage over the entire Tonwertverlauf of 1 to 100%.
  • the tonal values are shown in gray scale, the upper strip 11 representing the reference tone values unaffected by precursor processes, while the lower strip parallel thereto shows calibrated tonal values 12.
  • a tone scale 10 is also present, which indicates the tone values in percentages.
  • the tone values are given in the range of 10% to 90% in 10% increments, while the values in the range of 1% to 10% and the values in the range of 90% to 100% are drawn apart to the lower there Nevertheless, make differences visually recognizable.
  • a modified control mark 4 is shown, which differs from the control mark 1 in FIG Fig. 1 is distinguished by an additional strip 41 with linearized tonal values.
  • the tone scale 10 ranges from 1 to 100%, which not only makes it possible to detect changes which are caused by the process calibration of the preliminary stage in comparison to the reference tone values 11, but also additional changes in the linearized range by comparing linearized tone values 41 and reference tone values 11 can be visually recognized.
  • reference tone values 22 of the original which are uninfluenced by the original are shown in an elongated strip as gray levels, wherein within these non-influenceable reference tone values 22 are geometrically delimited areas of a finely resolved specific raster tone value 23 which cover the unimpeachable reference tone values 22 at these locations.
  • the finely resolved specific raster tone value 23 has a screening of 30 ⁇ m ⁇ 30 ⁇ m.
  • control mark 2 is shown for a 50% raster tone value, with a deviation of plus / minus 5 being shown upwards and downwards, which, with a reference raster of 80 lines / centimeter per stage, is a deviation of about 0.7% from one 50% raster tone value means.
  • control marking 3 the influence of the exposure energy and the chemical development, ie the total effect of the production process and the consequent deviation of the finely resolved specific halftone tone value 23 from non-influenceable reference tone values 22, can be assessed purely visually and quantitatively within a narrow tolerance range.
  • the fine-resolution control mark 2 still has a measuring field 24 for the measurement by means of a densitometer.
  • the measuring field 24 consists of a defined grid area of the 50% tone value and has a circular spot of a 100% full tone 25 inside.
  • the solid surface 25 serves for the density compensation of a densitometer.
  • Fig. 4 For example, the range is plotted for a 50% blank tone value, with the uncalibrated tone values 32 increasing in an oblong strip from left to right and the determined halftone tone value 33 constantly plotted in a parallel strip.
  • the Tonwertverlauf 32 runs stepped, for example, in 1% steps from left to right increasingly, so that even the smallest differences can be seen.
  • Parallel to the strips 32, 33 runs a tone scale 31 with applied percentages in the range of minus 15 to plus 3%.
  • the intersection point is to be sought in which a gray level of the uncalibrated tone values 32 and the determined halftone tone value 33 are the same. If this point of intersection is at zero (none), there is no difference at the determined raster tone value 33, that is, the determined raster tone value 33 is uncalibrated. Is the point of intersection but z. For example, at minus 7, this means a reduction of 7% downwards, ie in the prepress stage, the specific tone value 33 was reduced from 50% to 43% in the process calibration. If the reduction of 7% was intended and set, the manufacturing process is okay. But if another reduction or even an increase was intended, the manufacturing process must be reviewed.

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  1. Dispositif de contrôle visuel de plaques d'impression exposées (5) pour des machines d'impression, dispositif qui est placé sur la plaque d'impression (5) lors de l'exposition de la plaque d'impression sous forme d'au moins un marquage de contrôle (1, 2, 3, 4),
    caractérisé en ce que des valeurs tonales de référence (22) ne pouvant pas être affectées par le processus d'impression augmentent ou diminuent par palier dans une bande longitudinale, en ce qu'une certaine valeur tonale de trame (23) est représentée dans la même bande plusieurs fois en résolution fine et en ce que la valeur tonale de trame (23) est limitée à l'intérieur de la même bande (22) respectivement par des polygones.
  2. Dispositif selon la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce que les polygones sont enveloppés sensiblement par une forme de losange.
  3. Dispositif selon la revendication 1 ou 2, caractérisé en ce que les polygones présentent des coins rectangulaires.
  4. Dispositif selon l'une des revendications précédentes, caractérisé en ce que parallèlement aux bandes (22, 23), il existe une échelle de déviation de processus avec des modifications indiquées numériquement de la valeur tonale.
  5. Dispositif selon la revendication 4, caractérisé en ce que les déviations de processus indiquées numériquement sont comprises entre - 5 à + 5.
EP05101802A 2004-03-18 2005-03-09 Dispositif de contrôle visuel des plaques d'impression exposées Not-in-force EP1577085B1 (fr)

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