Abstract:
A method for preparing a substrate for a planographic printing plate is disclosed. A liquid that contains water; a soluble alkali metal silicate, preferably sodium silicate; and a dispersed particulate material is coated on a substrate, preferably aluminum or an aluminum alloy, to produce a hydrophilic layer on the substrate. A layer of image material may be coated over the substrate to produce a planographic printing plate. In one embodiment the liquid contains a mixture of two particulate materials: alumina and titanium dioxide.
Abstract:
Coated paper stocks for electrostatic imaging comprising a substrate coated on at least one surface with a resin layer comprised of olefinic material and a pin-hole free, continuous coating layer over said resin layer. The continuous layer has a glass transition temperature above 100.degree. C. and is comprised of one or more natural or synthetic film forming polymers. As a single layer this continuous coating layer functions as both a heat protective and imaging layer. In an alternate embodiment two separate coating layers are provided with separate heat protective and imaging functionalities.
Abstract:
This invention relates to polyvinyl acetals containing the units A, B, C and D, whereinA is present in an amount of 0.5 to 20 wt.-% and is of the formula ##STR1## B is present in an amount of 15 to 35 wt.-% and is of the formula ##STR2## C is present in an amount of 10 to 50 wt.-% and is of the formula ##STR3## wherein R.sup.1 is an alkyl group with up to 4 carbons, which is optionally substituted by an acid group, or a phenyl group, to which an acid group is attached, wherein the phenyl group optionally comprises 1 to 2 further substituents selected from halos, amino, methoxy, ethoxy, methyl and ethyl groups, or is a group X--NR.sup.6 --CO--Y--COOH, wherein X is an aliphatic, aromatic or araliphatic spacer group, R.sup.6 is hydrogen or an aliphatic, aromatic or araliphatic moiety and Y is a saturated or unsaturated chain- or ring-shaped spacer group, and this unit C may be contained several times with various moieties R.sup.1 independent of one another, and D is present in an amount of 25 to 70 wt.-% and is of the formula ##STR4## wherein n is an integer from 1 to 3 andR.sup.2 and R.sup.3 are a hydrogen or a methyl group, andR.sup.4 and R.sup.5 independent of one another are alkyl groups having no more than 4 carbons or R.sup.4 and R.sup.5, together with the two carbons they are attached to, represent a 5- or 6-membered carbocyclic ring.In addition, photosensitive compositions containing these polyvinyl acetals are described.
Abstract:
A lithographic imaging member, such as a printing plate, has a support having thereon an ink-accepting melanophilic layer and an ink-rejecting siloxane surface melanophobic layer. Within the printing plate is a photothermal conversion material capable of converting irradiation, such as IR radiation, to heat in exposed regions. Also within one of the layers is a compound that upon imaging releases a moiety that facilitates degradation of the surface melanophobic layer. The released moiety can be fluoride ion or a fluoride ion-containing compound. In some imaging members, a barrier layer may be interposed between the two other layers. Such imaging members can be digitally imaged and used for printing without post-imaging processing.
Abstract:
A positive-working lithographic printing plate is used to provide a positive image without a post-exposure baking step and without any floodwise exposure steps. The printing plate includes a layer that is imageable using an infrared radiation laser. This layer consists essentially of a phenolic resin, an infrared radiation absorbing compound, and a dissolution inhibitor that is non-photosensitive and is capable of providing sites for hydrogen bonding with the phenolic moieties of the binder resin. These printing plates are developed with an alkaline composition that includes an alkali metal silicate, a thickener and a fluorosurfactant or phosphate ester hydrotrope.
Abstract:
A lithographic printing plate precursor comprising on a support a radiation sensitive composition which comprises (1) a novolac resin, (2) a condensing agent for the novolac resin which is either a methylol polyvinyl phenol compound or a bishydroxymethyl compound, (3) a radiation sensitive latent acid generating compound, and (4) an infra-red sensitizing dye.
Abstract:
This subject invention relates to novel hydrazide compounds useful as dot-promoting agents in photographic image systems, methods for making them, and to photographic materials which comprise these compounds.
Abstract:
A formulation comprising a heat sensitive cross-linkable ink and carbon black is coated over substantially the entirety of an ink-repellent/ink-releasing surface of a printing cylinder of a printing press by heating the formulation and/or the outer surface of the printing cylinder so that the formulation adheres to the cylinder to provide a continuous coating thereon. The coated printing cylinder is then allowed to cool to ambient temperature whereafter it can be imaged using a digitally controlled laser. The imaged printing cylinder may be developed during press start up by application of waterless ink over the cylindter surface in order to remove the non-imaged areas comprising non-cross-linked ink. After completion of printing, the printing cylinder can be cleaned by using an appropriate solvent to solubilize the cross-linked ink in the imaged areas and subsequently re-used.
Abstract:
Coated paper stocks for electrostatic imaging comprising a substrate coated on at least one surface with a resin layer comprised of olefinic material and a pin-hole free, continuous coating layer over said resin layer. The continuous layer has a glass transition temperature above 100.degree. C. and is comprised of one or more natural or synthetic film forming polymers and an anti-static agent. As a single layer this continuous coating layer functions as both a heat protective and imaging layer. In an alternate embodiment two separate coating layers are provided with separate heat protective and imaging functionalities.
Abstract:
Lithographic plate compositions and a method for their production have been discovered that are especially useful in conjunction with digitally controlled lasers to directly construct printable images on lithographic plates. The plates comprise a substrate and an ablatable polymeric coating on the substrate where the ablatable, imageable coating is prepared by in situ or solution polymerization of conjugated monomers deposited on the plate by vapor deposition or in solution. Examples of such monomers are thiophene, pyrrole and aniline.