Abstract:
A negative image recording material on which an image is formable by exposure, comprising (A) a specific polymer compound that has at least one carbon—carbon double bond in a side chain thereof and a glass transition temperature of 80° C. or more, and is soluble in an aqueous alkaline solution, (B) a light-heat converting agent, and (C) a compound that generates radicals by exposure using light of a wavelength absorbable by the light-heat converting agent. The negative image recording material may also preferably includes (D) a radical-polymerizable compound. Preferably, the (A) specific polymer compound contains at least 1.5 meq/g of the carbon—carbon double bond in the side chain thereof.
Abstract:
An object of the present invention is to provide a method for manufacturing such a dry lithographic printing master plate that has eliminated uneven plate performance and more specifically that provides a stable adhesiveness between a heat-sensitive layer and a silicone rubber layer as well as a high aging stability of a coating solution. Provided is a method for preparing a master plate useful for making a dry lithographic printing plate comprising at least a heat-sensitive layer and a silicone rubber layer which are stacked in this order on a substrate, said method comprising the steps of: (1) dissolving a diorgano-polysiloxane and a curing catalyst in a solvent; (2) dissolving a cross-linking agent in a solvent; (3) mixing the solution obtained in the step (1) with the solution obtained in the step (2); and (4) applying the mixture obtained in the step (3) over the heat-sensitive layer to thereby form the silicone rubber layer.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to a resin composition comprising: an alkali-soluble resin (A); an infrared absorbing agent (B); and a thiol compound (C), wherein a solubility thereof in an alkaline aqueous solution is changed by exposure with a infrared laser ray, and a positive or negative-type image recording layer containing the resin composition.
Abstract:
Thermally imageable elements and methods for their preparation and use are disclosed. The elements contain, in order, a substrate; an underlayer; and an ink-repellent layer. The underlayer contains a crosslinked allyl functional polyurethane. A photothermal conversion material is present in either in the underlayer or in an absorber layer between the underlayer and the ink-repellent layer. Thermal imaging and development removes the ink-repellent layer and reveals the underlayer in the exposed regions to form an imaged element useful as a waterless lithographic printing plate.
Abstract:
A method for preparing a lithographic printing plate is provided which can well disperse insoluble matter caused by components of an image-forming layer in a plate-making process to inhibit the generation of processing scum, while maintaining good developing properties, and can further provide the plate having no gum repellency thereon and improved in the state of a gum-coated surface, the method for preparing a lithographic printing plate comprising exposing a photosensitive lithographic printing plate precursor having an image-forming layer containing an infrared absorption dye, and developing the exposed photosensitive lithographic printing plate precursor with an alkali developer containing a sulfonate group-containing anionic surfactant.
Abstract:
A image forming material has a support having thereon a recording layer which is formed of a composition whose solubility in water or in an alkali aqueous solution is altered by the effects of light or heat, and an intermediate layer which is disposed between the support and the recording layer and which has the same function as that of the recording layer and whose sensitivity to light or heat is higher than that of the recording layer.
Abstract:
A base material for a lithographic printing plate comprising a support, a hydrophilic organic polymer compound that is chemically bonded to a surface of the support, and an ionic compound that is ionically bonded to the hydrophilic organic polymer compound; and a lithographic printing plate comprising the base material and an image forming layer provided thereon.
Abstract:
A waterless planographic printing plate precursor which has a support member, a light-to-heat conversion layer for converting laser light to heat, and a silicone rubber layer. The light-to-heat conversion layer is contains at least one kind of polyurethane having at least one carboxyl group, and at least one light-to-heat conversion substance.
Abstract:
A heat-sensitive composition comprising a compound of a specific general formula which generates an acid or radical when heated, and a compound whose physical and chemical properties are irreversibly changed by an acid or radical.
Abstract:
The present invention provides a planographic printing plate precursor comprising a substrate and a negative image recording layer provided on the substrate containing: a compound that generates a radical or an acid by light or heat; a polymerizable compound or a crosslinking compound; and an infrared ray absorbing agent, wherein a dynamic friction coefficient of the outermost surface of the planographic printing plate precursor, at the side of the negative image recording layer being provided toward an inserting paper inserted into between the planographic printing plate precursors when the planographic printing plate precursors are laminated, is within a range from 0.2 to 0.7, as well as a planographic printing plate precursor laminate comprising the pluralty of the planographic printing plate precursors and inserting paper.