Abstract:
A laser imageable direct write printing member for use with a laser producing laser infrared radiation comprising a flexible sheet of plastic having first and second surfaces serving as a film substrate. A vacuum-deposited laser ablative coating is carried by said first surface formed of a metal selected from a group consisting of titanium, zirconium, hafnium and alloys thereof.
Abstract:
Apparatus and methods for imaging lithographic plates using laser devices that emit in the near-infrared region, and plates suitable for imaging with the apparatus and methods. Laser output either ablates one or more plate layers or physically transforms a surface layer, in either case resulting in an imagewise pattern of features on the plate. The image features exhibit an affinity for ink or an ink-abhesive fluid that differs from that of unexposed areas.
Abstract:
A support for lithographic printing plate having provided on an iron material (i) a layer substantially consisting of chromium and/or chromium oxide and (ii) a layer consisting essentially of a water soluble polymeric compound and at least one selected from water soluble salts of calcium, magnesium, zinc, barium, strontium, cobalt, manganese, nickel and silicon, in this order.
Abstract:
This invention relates to an aluminum base material for presensitized printing plates. The aluminum has an anodically produced oxide layer on the surface thereof, which layer is at least 0.0002 mm. thick, and the oxide layer is reacted with polyvinyl phosphonic acid.
Abstract:
Provided is a printing plate precursor including: a support; a layer which contains a polymer on one side of the support; and a layer which contains a metal oxide obtained by hydrolyzing and polycondensing an organic metal compound or an inorganic metal compound and fine particles on the other side of the support, in which an average particle diameter of the fine particles is 0.3 μm or greater and is greater than the thickness of the layer containing a metal oxide and fine particles, and in a case where the printing plate precursors are laminated, dislocation in stacking precursors, adhesion between precursors, and scratches can be all prevented even without using interleaving paper.
Abstract:
Objects are to provide an infrared-sensitive color developing composition which develops colors in a high density by means of infrared exposure and does not significantly discolor when aged, to provide a lithographic printing plate precursor which has extremely excellent plate-inspecting properties and favorable storage stability and is capable of maintaining favorable color-developing properties and a plate making method for a lithographic printing plate in which the lithographic printing plate precursor is used, and to provide a new compound that can be preferably used as an infrared-sensitive color developer.An infrared-sensitive color developing composition of the present invention includes a compound represented by Formula (1) (Component A). In addition, the compound in the present invention is represented by Formula (1).
Abstract:
The present invention relates to a positive working lithographic printing plate precursor, comprising: (1) a substrate; and (2) an imaging layer, formed on the substrate, comprising a water-insoluble and an alkaline aqueous solution-soluble or dispersible resin and a photo-thermal converting material, wherein the imaging layer comprises either polyurethane or polyurethane urea or both of the polyurethane and the polyurethane urea, the polyurethane and the polyurethane urea comprising a unit having a substituent having an acidic hydrogen atom and a unit having a polysiloxane moiety in a side or main chain. The present invention can provide a lithographic printing plate precursor which has high printing durability, good scratch resistance, and good developing properties, as well as enhanced ink receptivity.
Abstract:
A method of making a planographic printing plate includes exposing, to infrared light, a planographic printing plate precursor including a recording layer provided on a substrate, and developing the precursor using an aqueous alkaline solution. The recording layer comprises a copolymer containing a structural unit derived from (meth)acrylonitrile and at structural unit derived from styrene, a water-insoluble and alkali-soluble resin, and an infrared absorbing agent, the solubility of the recording layer in the aqueous alkaline solution being increased by the exposure. The aqueous alkaline solution has a pH of 8.5 to 10.8 and contains a betaine-based amphoteric surfactant and an ammonium salt represented by Formula (I): R1, R2, R3, and R4 each independently represent an alkyl or aryl group; the total number of carbon atoms in R1, R2, R3, and R4 is not more than 20; and X− represents a counter anion.
Abstract:
A negative-working lithographic printing plate precursor includes a coating containing a photopolymerizable layer and optionally an intermediate layer between the photopolymerizable layer and the support, wherein the coating further includes a polysiloxane, the polysiloxane being present in the photopolymerizable layer and/or in the optional intermediate layer, and the polysiloxane is obtained by reacting at least one organosilicon compound represented by the general Formula (I) and at least one organosilicon compound represented by the general Formula (II):