High-Speed Laser Platemaking from Digital Data for the Defense Mapping Agency.

Abstract

A Digital Laser Platemaker will significantly reduce the time and cost for producing standard and special purpose maps that are now printed by lithographic methods. This platemaker, developed at the U.S. Army Engineer Topographic Laboratories (USAETL) Ft. Belvoir, VA. will expose a 41- by 59-inch image on a diazo-coated press plate in 15 minutes by using an Ultra Violet (UV) laser and digital data input via magnetic tape. Plates will be exposed while they are held on the internal surface of a stationary drum after it is loaded by a semi-automatic mechanism. The system can also produce film plots for archival storage of graphic images. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 06, 1981
Accession Number
ADA107380

Entities

Organizations

  • Geospatial Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Sensors

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accuracy
  • Automatic
  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • Digital Data
  • Digital Images
  • Engineering
  • Engineers
  • Image Processing
  • Laser Beams
  • Lasers
  • Magnetic Tape
  • Production Models
  • Robotics
  • Scanning
  • Tapes
  • Test And Evaluation

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Computer Science/Computer Engineering/Data Science/Digital Signal Processing.
  • Nanofabrication and Microfabrication.

Technology Areas

  • Directed Energy