This looks like version 1 of using interference to produce feature sizes smaller than the wavelength of the light used for the lithography.
A physical process distorts the "clean" image in the final product, so the distortion is mapped and doubly reversed, so that a "clean" final product is generated from an intentionally distorted original. As long as the physical distortion is consistent and predictable, you could do this with anything.
I'm thinking the same technique could be applied to improve volume printers. Instead of ink traps you have thermoplastic traps.
The ink traps are definitely larger than the wavelengths of light used for making lithographic plates for printing. Or are you making a comparison to semiconductor lithography?
A physical process distorts the "clean" image in the final product, so the distortion is mapped and doubly reversed, so that a "clean" final product is generated from an intentionally distorted original. As long as the physical distortion is consistent and predictable, you could do this with anything.
I'm thinking the same technique could be applied to improve volume printers. Instead of ink traps you have thermoplastic traps.