Abstract:
A material for making a lithographic printing plate is provided comprising on a glass support a surface capable of being differentiated in ink accepting and ink repellant areas in accordance with an image pattern, characterised in that the glass support has a thickness of not more than 0.5 mm, a failure stress of at least 107 Pa and a Youngs modulus of not more than 1011 Pa.
Abstract:
A planographic printing original plate which comprises an intermediate layer which contains a polymer including, as a monomer unit, at least a monomer having an acid group and a monomer having an onium group; and a photosensitive layer comprised of a positive-type photosensitive composition for an infrared laser which contains: (A) at least an alkali-soluble polymeric compound; (B) a compound which has a function to deteriorate the solubility of the alkali-soluble polymeric compound in an alkaline aqueous solution due to compatibility with the alkali-soluble polymeric compound, the function being deteriorated by compound (B) being heated; and (C) a compound which generates heat by absorbing light, the intermediate layer and the photosensitive layer being formed sequentially on a support which has been subjected to a hydrophilizing treatment.
Abstract:
A method of lithographic printing is disclosed which comprises the steps of unwinding a web of an imaging material from a supply spool, the imaging material comprising (1) a flexible lithographic base having a hydrophilic surface and (2) an image-recording layer which is removable in a single-fluid ink or can be rendered removable in a single-fluid ink by exposure to heat or light, wrapping the imaging material around a cylinder of a printing press, image-wise exposing the image-recording layer to heat or light, processing the image-recording layer by supplying single-fluid ink, thereby obtaining a printing master, printing by supplying single-fluid ink to the printing master which is mounted on a plate cylinder of the printing press, removing the printing master from the plate cylinder, preferably by winding up on an uptake spool. Since the image-recording layer can be processed by single-fluid ink, the imaging material is suitable for on-press processing in printing presses wherein no fountain solution is supplied to the plate. The method allows a rapid, fully automatic plate change with reduced press down time.
Abstract:
According to the present invention there is provided a heat-sensitive imaging element for making lithographic printing plates. The heat-sensitive imaging element comprises an image-forming layer comprising hydrophobic thermoplastic polymer particles having a specific particle size and polydispersity for obtaining printing plates with an improved sensitivity, excellent developability, high throughput and less scumming.
Abstract:
A polyvinyl acetal copolymer compound comprises the units A, B, C and D, wherein A is present in an amount of 0.5 to 30 wt.-% and is of the formula 1 wherein R is hydrogen, C1-C6 alkyl, nullCHnullCHCOOH or 2 B is present in an amount of 5 to 35 wt.-% and is of the formula 3 C is present in an amount of 10 to 55 wt.-% and is of the formula 4 wherein R1 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 halogen atoms, amino, methoxy, ethoxy, methyl and ethyl groups, or is a group ZnullNR2nullCOnullYnullCOOH, wherein Z is an aliphatic, aromatic or araliphatic spacer group, R2 is hydrogen or an aliphatic, aromatic or araliphatic moiety and Y is a saturated or unsaturated chain- or ring-shaped spacer group, and unit C may have one or more occurrences in the copolymer with various moieties R1 independent of one another; and D is present in an amount of 10 to 40 wt.-% and is of the formula 5 wherein X is C1-C6 alkylene, a 5 or 6 membered saturated carbocyclic moiety optionally substituted with one or more substituents selected from the group consisting of C1-C4 alkyl, C1-C4 alkoxy or halogen, a 5 or 6 membered saturated heterocyclic moiety which comprises in the nucleus one or more heteroatoms selected from oxygen, nitrogen and sulfur, or a group of the formula I 6 wherein n is an integer from 0 to 4 and each R3 is independently selected from the group consisting of C1-C4 alkyl, halogen or C1-C4 alkoxy. A radiation-sensitive composition useful in a lithographic printing plate comprises (i) the above-described polyvinyl acetal copolymer; and (ii) a light-to-heat transformer compound.
Abstract:
A photosensitive resin composition containing a high molecular compound having at least a) a fluoro aliphatic group, and b) a group represented by formula nullLnullP (wherein L represents a divalent organic group connected to the skeleton of the high molecular compound, and P represents an aromatic group having a carboxyl group at the ortho-position).
Abstract:
A heat-sensitive precursor of lithographic printing plates, which comprises a hydrophilic layer provided on a substrate having an ink-receptive surface or coated with an ink-receptive layer; the printing plate precursor further having a water-soluble overcoat layer on the hydrophilic layer, and the hydrophilic layer being a three-dimensionally cross-linked hydrophilic layer, the heated area of that is easily removed by a fountain solution or ink when subjected to printing operations.
Abstract:
A lithographic printing plate precursor comprises an image forming layer containing at least one polymer compound having a fluoroaliphatic group on the side chain, wherein the fluoroaliphatic group is derived from a fluoroaliphatic compound produced by a telomerization or oligomerization method.
Abstract:
The present invention is an image recording material characterized in that it contains (a) a compound that is decomposed by light or heat and produces an acid, (b) a crosslinking agent that crosslinks in the presence of an acid, (c) a high-polymer compound insoluble in water but soluble in an alkali aqueous solution, and (d) the anionic infrared absorbing agent expressed by general formula (I) or general formula (II) below. In the formulas, M represents a conjugated chain, Ga− represents an anionic substituent, Gb represents a neutral substituent, Xm+1 represents a hydrogen ion or a cation of m valence, and m represents an integer from 1 to 6.
Abstract:
A negative image-recording material which can be imagewise exposed to IR radiation from IR lasers and ensures direct image formation from digital data of a computer or the like. The material, when used in a lithographic printing plate, ensures good hardenability in an image area and exhibits good printing durability, even if not heated for image formation, and ensures a large number of good prints from the printing plate. The recording material contains (A) an IR absorber, (B) a radical generator having an onium salt structure, (C) a radical-polymerizing compound, and (D) a reducing additive, and this is imagewise exposed to IR radiation for image formation. Preferably, the reducing additive (D) is highly reactive with radicals and a reaction product with a radical has high reductivity. Preferred examples of the reducing additive are ether-type hydrogen donors, alcohol-type hydrogen donors, vinyl ethers and phosphine-type compounds.