METHOD FOR FORMING LITHOGRAPHIC PRINTING PLATES
    1.
    发明授权
    METHOD FOR FORMING LITHOGRAPHIC PRINTING PLATES 有权
    用于生产平版印刷版的

    公开(公告)号:EP0939698B1

    公开(公告)日:2003-09-24

    申请号:EP98939401.0

    申请日:1998-08-14

    摘要: A method for directly imaging a lithographic printing surface using infrared radiation without the requirement of pre- or post-UV-light exposure, or heat treatment employs a printing plate which contains a support with a hydrophilic surface overcoated with an imaging layer. The imaging layer contains at least one polymer having bonded pendent groups which are hydroxy, carboxylic acid, tert-butyl-oxycarbonyl, sulfonamide, amide, nitrile, urea, or combinations thereof; as well as an infrared absorbing compound. The imaging layer may contain a second polymer which has bonded pendent groups which are 1,2-naphthoquinone diazide, hydroxy, carboxylic acid, sulfonamide, hydroxymethyl amide, alkoxymethyl amide, nitrile, maleimide, urea, or combinations thereof. The imaging layer may also contain a visible absorption dye, a solubility inhibiting agent, or both. In practice, the imaging layer is imagewise exposed to infrared radiation to produce exposed image areas in the imaged layer which have transient solubility in aqueous alkaline developing solution so that solubility is gradually lost over a period of time until the imaged areas become as insoluble as non-imaged areas. Within a short time period of the imaging exposure, the imaged layer is developed with an aqueous alkaline developing solution to form the lithographic printing surface. In this method, the infrared radiation preferably is laser radiation which is digitally controlled.

    MULTILAYER IMAGEABLE ELEMENTS
    4.
    发明公开
    MULTILAYER IMAGEABLE ELEMENTS 有权
    MULTI-LAYER可映射元素

    公开(公告)号:EP1654119A1

    公开(公告)日:2006-05-10

    申请号:EP04780824.1

    申请日:2004-08-11

    IPC分类号: B41C1/10 B41M5/36

    摘要: Multilayer, positive working, thermally imageable, bakeable imageable elements are disclosed. The elements have a substrate, an underlayer, and a top layer. The underlayer comprises a polymeric material that comprises, in polymerized form about 5 mol% to about 30 mol% of methacrylic acid; about 20 mol% to about 75 mol% of N-phenylmaleimide, N-cyclohexylmaleimide, N-benzylmaleimide, or a mixture thereof; optionally, about 5 mol% to about 50 mol% of methacrylamide; and about 3 mol% to about 50 mol% of a compound represented by the formula: CH2C(R2)C(O)NHCH2OR1, in which R1 is C1 to C12 alkyl, phenyl, C1 to C12 substituted phenyl, C1 to C12 aralkyl, or Si(CH3)3; and R2 is H or methyl. Other materials, such as a resin or resins having activated methylol and/or activated alkylated methylol groups, such as a resole resin, may be present in the underlayer. The elements produce bakeable lithographic printing plates that are resistant to press chemistries.

    THERMAL LITHOGRAPHIC PRINTING PLATES
    5.
    发明公开
    THERMAL LITHOGRAPHIC PRINTING PLATES 有权
    热平版印板

    公开(公告)号:EP0939698A1

    公开(公告)日:1999-09-08

    申请号:EP98939401.0

    申请日:1998-08-14

    IPC分类号: B41C1 B41M5

    摘要: A method for directly imaging a lithographic printing surface using infrared radiation without the requirement of pre- or post-UV-light exposure, or heat treatment employs a printing plate which contains a support with a hydrophilic surface overcoated with an imaging layer. The imaging layer contains at least one polymer having bonded pendent groups which are hydroxy, carboxylic acid, tert-butyl-oxycarbonyl, sulfonamide, amide, nitrile, urea, or combinations thereof; as well as an infrared absorbing compound. The imaging layer may contain a second polymer which has bonded pendent groups which are 1,2-naphthoquinone diazide, hydroxy, carboxylic acid, sulfonamide, hydroxymethyl amide, alkoxymethyl amide, nitrile, maleimide, urea, or combinations thereof. The imaging layer may also contain a visible absorption dye, a solubility inhibiting agent, or both. In practice, the imaging layer is imagewise exposed to infrared radiation to produce exposed image areas in the imaged layer which have transient solubility in aqueous alkaline developing solution so that solubility is gradually lost over a period of time until the imaged areas become as insoluble as non-imaged areas. Within a short time period of the imaging exposure, the imaged layer is developed with an aqueous alkaline developing solution to form the lithographic printing surface. In this method, the infrared radiation preferably is laser radiation which is digitally controlled.