Abstract:
The present invention provides a processless printing plate precursor including a thermally sensitive layer applied onto a substrate. The thermally sensitive layer includes polycyanoacrylate particles having a major dimension between about 50 and about 500 nm, and a mean major dimension of no greater than about 350 nm. The printing plate precursor may be exposed to radiation and may then be developed “on press” with a suitable fountain solution.
Abstract:
An infrared laser-sensitive positive type image recording material comprises a support; an alkali-developer-soluble first layer formed over the support; and a second layer formed over the first layer, the solubility of the second layer in alkali-developer being improved by exposure of the second layer to an infrared laser. The first layer comprises a polymer having a structural unit represented by formula (I): wherein R1 represents a hydrogen atom or a methyl group; R2 represents a hydrocarbon group having (n+1) valences and having an aliphatic ring structure having 3 to 30 carbon atoms; A represents an oxygen atom or —NR3— wherein R3 represents a hydrogen atom or a monovalent hydrocarbon group having 1 to 10 carbon atoms; and n is an integer of from 1 to 5.
Abstract:
The present invention provides a lithographic printing plate precursor and a lithographic printing method using the lithographic printing plate precursor, which is capable of an image recording by infrared laser scanning and an on-press development and excellent in fine line reproducibility and press life while maintaining good on-press developing properties, the lithographic printing plate precursor comprising: a support; and an image recording layer capable of being removed by a printing ink and/or a fountain solution, in which the image recording layer comprises an infrared absorber and a graft polymer having a specific graft chain.
Abstract:
A photo- or thermo-polymerizable composition including an alkali-soluble polymerizable polymer that contains a structure represented by the following general formula (I) on a side chain. In general formula (I), X represents a polymerizable group; A represents an alkali-soluble group; Q represents a hydrocarbon linking group or a hetero ring; Z1 and Z2 each independently represent a single bond or a hydrocarbon linking group; and P1 to P5 each independently represent a single bond, or a linking group constituted by a hydrogen atom, a nitrogen atom, an oxygen atom, a sulfur atom, and a carbonyl group (>C═O)
Abstract:
A polyaerizable composition comprising: (A) a compound which causes at least one of decarboxylation and dehydration by heat; (B) a radical initiator; (C) a compound having at least one ethylenically unsaturated bond; and (D) an infrared ray absorber.
Abstract:
A coating fluid for printing plates which can be suitably used to make printing plates that permit images to be written in response to input digital data and that can be easily regenerated and reused. This coating fluid for. printing plates comprises at least a carrier liquid, thermoplastic resin particles and an IR absorber, and the IR absorber has a decomposition starting temperature higher than the melt starting temperature of the thermoplastic resin particles.
Abstract:
A photosensitive composition that includes a compound which generates a radical upon being heated or exposed to light; a polymer having on a side chain thereof a phenyl group substituted by a vinyl group; a monomer having in a molecule thereof at least two phenyl groups each substituted by a vinyl group; an infrared absorbent; and a dye having absorption maximum wavelength in a range from 500 to 700 nm, and an image recording material which has the photosensitive layer disposed on a support.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to a planographic printing plate precursor, in which an intermediate layer comprising a polymer having a lactone group and a recording layer are successively provided on or over a support. The polymer preferably has not only the lactone group but also an acidic group.
Abstract:
The planographic printing plate precursor of the invention includes a recording layer capable of forming an image upon irradiation with infrared rays, wherein the recording layer comprises (A) an alkali-soluble resin having, in a main chain, a structural unit containing at least one type of bond selected from an amide bond, urea bond, urethane bond and ester bond and having at least one type of acid group selected from a phenolic hydroxyl group, sulfonamide group and active imide group, and (B) an infrared absorbing agent. The invention provides a positive-working planographic printing plate precursor excellent in printing durability and chemical resistance.
Abstract:
A photosensitive composition comprising a resin containing a repeating unit corresponding to a monomer having a structure represented by formula (I) defined in the specification, and a negative working lithographic printing plate having a negative working photosensitive layer comprising the above-described photosensitive composition.