Patent 7330203 was granted and assigned to Heidelberger Druckmaschinen on February, 2008 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
An individually drivable array of single stripe laser diodes is proposed for imaging printing plates. An imaging optics is used to produce n image points which have a spatial interval l between adjacent points. An interleaving raster scan line method is indicated, which, given proper selection of the increment, enables each dot to be exposed exactly once.