Method and arrangement for producing rastered color separations and printing forms

摘要

A method and an arrangement for producing rastered printing forms having rasters with arbitrary raster angles on the basis of at least one recording beam moving across a recording medium. The recording beam is switched on or, respectively, off corresponding to the size and position of raster dots. A switch signal for the recording beam is generated by a signal comparison between the image signal, which represents the tonal values of an original, and stored raster thresholds, which represent the periodic basic structure of a raster mesh. Coordinate increments corresponding to the proceeding recording are accumulated dependent on the screen angle to form coordinate values. A plurality of most significant binary places of the coordinate values form addresses for reading out the stored raster thresholds. Random numbers are superimposed on the coordinate values.