Abstract: flexographic printing plate having solid image areas which are covered by a plurality of very small and shallow cells similar to the ink carrying cells found in anilox ink metering rolls. These cells fill with ink during the plate inking step and reproduce solid image areas with better color saturation while at the same time reducing the halo typical of flexographic printing of solids. Associated with this plate is a method for producing the cells, including the use of an intermediate screened film and of a computer program for generating the film intermediate.

Abstract: A method of producing a halftone screen having a plurality of halftone dots arrayed along a desired screen frequency. The method comprises: a) using variable size halftone dots arrayed along the screen frequency to reproduce shades of gray equal to and above a predetermined shade of gray, the predetermined shade of gray having a first halftone dot size; and b) reproducing shades of gray below the predetermined shade of gray using the first halftone dot size arrayed along the screen frequency by deleting a number of halftone dots per unit area to obtain gray shades below the predetermined shade of gray.

Abstract: A flexographic printing plate having solid image areas which are covered by a plurality of very small and shallow cells similar to the ink carrying cells found in anilox ink metering rolls. These cells fill with ink during the plate inking step and reproduce solid image areas with better color saturation while at the same time reducing the halo typical of flexographic printing of solids. Associated with this plate is a method for producing the cells, including the use of an intermediate screened film and of a computer program for generating the film intermediate.