Abstract:
A lithographic printing plate precursor includes an image-recording layer and a protective layer containing a stratiform compound, wherein at least one of the image-recording layer and the protective layer contains a polymer containing as a repeating unit, a structural unit having an ammonium structure.
Abstract:
An image-forming method includes: exposing a negative type image-forming material including a support and an image-recording layer containing a binder polymer containing at least one group capable of being converted to a sulfonate upon a reaction with an aqueous solution containing at least one of a sulfite and a bisulfite, a sensitizing dye, a polymerization initiator, and a compound having an ethylenically unsubstituted bond; and removing an unexposed area of the image-recording layer with an aqueous solution containing at least one of a sulfite and a bisulfite.
Abstract:
Disclosed is a planographic printing plate material comprising an aluminum support and provided thereon, an image formation layer containing a cyclic ureide moiety-containing phenolic resin in which a phenolic resin has a cyclic ureide moiety through a linkage group, the cyclic ureide moiety being derived from a cyclic ureide and the linkage group being derived from a linkage compound having both a monohalogenated alkyl group and one selected from a vinyl group, a carbonyl group, an ester group and a sulfonic acid ester group.
Abstract:
A polymerizable composition containing: (A) a polyurethane compound soluble or swellable in water or an aqueous alkali solution which is obtained by reacting at least one diol compound having an unsaturated bond in a main chain and having a molecular weight of 500 or more with at least one polyisocyanate compound; (B) a radical initiator; and (C) a photothermal converting agent, and a polymerizable composition containing: (A′) a polyurethane resin which is soluble or swellable in water or an aqueous alkali solution and has an unsaturated carbon-carbon bond in its side chain; and (B) a radical initiator, wherein the polyurethane resin (A′) is obtained by adding an epoxy compound having an unsaturated carbon-carbon bond to a polyurethane resin having carboxyl group.
Abstract:
A printing method comprising: imagewise exposing a lithographic printing plate precursor comprising a support and an image recording layer being removable with a fountain solution or a combination of a printing ink and a fountain solution and loading the exposed lithographic printing plate precursor on a plate cylinder of a printing press, or loading the lithographic printing plate precursor on a plate cylinder of a printing press and imagewise exposing the loaded lithographic printing plate precursor, supplying at least a fountain solution comprising a compound represented by the formula (I) defined herein to the exposed lithographic printing plate precursor so as to remove an unexposed area of the image recording layer; and performing printing.
Abstract:
A lithographic printing plate precursor having a good press life with a practical energy amount, which can be on-press developed without passing through a development processing step after recording an image by a laser of emitting an infrared ray, is provided, which is a lithographic printing plate precursor capable of performing a development and printing by loading on a printing press after imagewise exposure and supplying an oily ink and an aqueous component, the lithographic printing plate precursor comprising a support and an image recording layer, wherein the image recording layer comprises (A) a polymerization initiator, (B) a polymerizable monomer, (C) a binder polymer, and (D) a crosslinked resin particle having a reactive group or (F) a microcapsule containing a polymerizable monomer in the capsule wall, and the image recording layer is imagewise polymerization-curable upon irradiation of actinic ray.
Abstract:
A polymer having a polymerizable group and an alkyleneoxy groups on side chains thereof, and a polymerizable composition containing the polymer. The polymerizable composition preferably contains a polymerizable compound and a polymerization initiator. Also provided is a planographic printing plate precursor having a polymerizable layer on a hydrophilic support, the polymerizable layer containing a polymer having a polymerizable on a side chain thereof. The planographic printing plate precursor can form an image without being subjected to an alkali development. An undercoat layer containing a specific copolymer may be provided between the support and the photopolymerizable layer.
Abstract:
Disclosed is a planographic printing plate material comprising a support and provided thereon, a light sensitive layer containing a resin comprising a residue of a bicyclic heterocyclic compound with a fused bicyclic ring, wherein the fused bicyclic ring contains two or more of —C(═O)— or two or more of —NH— in one ring thereof.
Abstract:
A method for producing a polymer latex includes: mixing a polymerizable monomer in which acrylonitrile accounts for 70% by weight or more of a total of the polymerizable monomer, water and a polymerization initiator to conduct emulsion polymerization; and distilling off a monomer unpolymerized in the emulsion polymerization.
Abstract:
A lithographic printing plate precursor includes: a support; an image-recording layer capable of being removed with water or an aqueous component; and an overcoat layer, in this order, wherein the overcoat layer is formed by drying a water-dispersible polymer particle, or includes: a support; an image-recording layer which is capable of being removed with at least one of printing ink and dampening water and contains (A) an infrared absorbing agent, (B) a polymerization initiator and (C) a polymerizable compound; and an overcoat layer, in this order, wherein the overcoat layer is formed by drying a water-dispersible polymer particle.