Abstract:
The invention provides: an image recording material comprising a support having provided thereon in this order an image recording layer containing a binder polymer (A), a compound having a polymerizable unsaturated group (B), and a polymerization initiator (C), and a layer containing a hydrophilic polymer and a compound having within the molecule thereof an acid group and a partial structure functioning as a base.
Abstract:
A lithographic printing process which comprises the steps of: imagewise exposing to infrared light a presensitized lithographic plate which comprises a hydrophilic support and a removable image-forming layer containing an infrared absorbing agent having the absorption maximum within an infrared region and a dye precursor having substantially no absorption within a visible region to change the dye precursor to a visible dye having an absorption within a visible region within the exposed area, and to make the image-forming layer irremovable within the exposed area; removing the image-forming layer within the unexposed area of the lithographic plate mounted on a cylinder of a printing press; and then printing an image with the lithographic plate mounted on the cylinder of the printing press. The other processes are also disclosed.
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 lithographic printing plate precursor comprising a support and an image-recording layer containing at least one infrared absorbing agent of a cyanine dye in which a HOMO energy level of each of substituents present on both terminal nitrogen atoms is −10.0 eV or higher.
Abstract:
A lithographic printing plate precursor comprises an image-forming layer containing a polymerization initiator and a polymerizable compound, and a hydrophilic support, wherein the lithographic printing plate precursor comprises a compound containing at least one functional group having an interaction with a surface of the hydrophilic support.
Abstract:
The present invention provides an infrared-sensitive planographic printing plate precursor including: a support; a recording layer on one surface of the support, which recording layer contains a water-insoluble and alkali-soluble resin, an infrared absorber and a long-chain alkyl group-containing polymer, and is capable of forming an image by infrared irradiation; and a back coating layer on the other surface of the support, which back coating layer contains an organic polymer and has a thickness of 0.3 μm or more.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to a positive planographic printing plate precursor comprising a support and a positive recording layer which is disposed on the support and contains (A) an alkali-soluble high-molecular weight compound having a heterocyclic ring bonded with a mercapto group. This positive planographic printing plate precursor is superior in chemical resistance and the developing characteristics of the exposed portions.
Abstract:
Disclosed is a printing plate material comprising a support and provided thereon, a hydrophilic layer containing pigment particles having a light-to-heat conversion capability, wherein the pigment particles have an average particle diameter of from 0.15 μm to less than 1.0 μm, and the hydrophilic layer has a surface roughness Ra of from 0.2 μm to less than 1.5 μm.
Abstract:
The planographic printing plate precursor of the present invention comprises a substrate, and a recording layer provided on the substrate, the recording layer comprises a polymer compound having a partial structure of (1) silicon-oxygen bonds and (2) alkali-soluble groups. This planographic printing plate precursor provides excellent inking property on the image portion, and suppresses the generation of deposits such as sludge in a developing solution during the plate-making process.
Abstract:
An object of the present invention is to provide a planographic printing plate material as well as a printing method in which excellent properties of on-press development, exposure image visualization, scratch resistance, background contamination resistance, and printing durability are exhibited. Disclosed is a planographic printing plate material possessing a hydrophilic layer and an image formation layer provided on a plastic support, wherein the image formation layer contains polyolefin wax having a melting point of 105-120° C. and a melt viscosity of 1-1200 mPa·s, the hydrophilic layer contains spherical silica particles having a particle diameter of 5.0-7.0 μm, and a content ratio of the spherical silica particles having a particle diameter of 5.0-7.0 μm is not less than 60% by volume, based on a total volume of particles having a particle diameter of 2-10 μm contained in the hydrophilic layer.