Abstract: To generate engraving data (6), especially for an engraving cylinder, based on a vectorized printer's copy (1) and a screen stipulation (2), depending on the geometry of the elements contained in the printer's copy, within predefined variation range for the engraving data (6) at least one working screen (4) is chosen which deviates from the screen stipulation (2). In the printer's copy (1) first at least one line element is chosen. Afterwards within the variation range a working screen is determined which is matched to the periodicity of the determined line element with respect to density and/or angle. Then in the printer's copy (1) font elements are chosen and they are matched to the working screen using font hinting data. If necessary also the screen geometries which belong to the different process colors are stretched or flattened in the line direction and/or in the advance direction in order to be aligned to the chosen line element.

Abstract: In a process for producing a stipulated intensity distribution of a working laser beam on an object surface, at least one first and one second component beam with a stipulated first and second intensity distribution are formed and the power of each component beam is changed in a controlled manner with switching times down to submicroseconds. The component beams at a third intensity distribution superimposed as the working beam are pointed at or into the object in order to achieve a different action as a result of a varied third intensity distribution of the working beam. In contrast to conventional processes the first intensity distribution Ib=a×fb(x, y, t) differs from the following one In=a×fn(x, y, t) by the value of the function fu(x, y, t) and no longer only by an altered linear value a. The process as claimed in the invention can be preferably used in the production of screen cells on an engraved cylinder.

Abstract: A wrap-on printing plate with first and second clamping bars along opposite sides thereof for installation on a printing cylinder is produced by providing a layer defining a printing plate body, forming from marginal portions of that layer, along opposite sides thereof, first and second foundations for the first and second clamping bars, respectively. These clamping bars are provided on such first and second foundations by interatomic bonding between the first and second foundations and the first and second clamping bars, respectively. To this end, the layer may, for instance, be electroplated on existing clamping bars in a special form, or, as presently preferred, material from which the first and second clamping bars are formed may be electroplated on the first and second foundations formed in marginal portions of the mentioned layer.