Abstract:
A lithographic printing plate precursor which is capable of undergoing on-press development by supplying at least one of printing ink and dampening water and includes a support and an image-recording layer, wherein the image-recording layer contains at least one of compounds represented by the formulae (1) to (3) as defined herein.
Abstract:
A method of making a lithographic printing plate includes the steps of a) providing a lithographic printing plate precursor including (i) a support having a hydrophilic surface or which is provided with a hydrophilic layer, (ii) a coating on the support including a photopolymerizable layer, and, optionally, an intermediate layer between the photopolymerizable layer and the support, wherein the photopolymerizable layer includes a polymerizable compound, a polymerization initiator, and a reactive binder; b) image-wise exposing the coating in a plate setter; c) optionally, heating the precursor in a pre-heating unit; d) developing the precursor off-press in a gumming unit by treating the coating of the precursor with a gum solution, thereby removing the non-exposed areas of the photopolymerizable layer from the support, wherein the reactive binder is a polymer containing a monomeric unit which includes a group having an ethylenically unsaturated bond.
Abstract:
A curable composition in which polymerization inhibition due to oxygen is suppressed and which may be cured with high sensitivity by exposure to laser light or the like is provided. The curable composition includes: a polymerizable compound having an ethylenically unsaturated bond; a binder; a radical polymerization initiator; and at least one specific amine compound. Also provided is an image forming material and a negative-working planographic printing plate precursor including the curable composition.
Abstract:
To provide a process for making a lithographic printing plate that exhibits safety, and excellent developability and processing capacity in single solution processing using a processing solution having a pH in a weakly alkaline region, and preferably a pH of 8.5 to 10.5. A process for making a lithographic printing plate, the process including a preparation step of preparing a lithographic printing plate precursor having above a hydrophilic support an image-forming layer that contains an infrared-absorbing agent, a polymerization initiator, an ethylenically unsaturated compound, and a binder polymer, an exposure step of imagewise exposing the lithographic printing plate precursor, and a processing step of processing the imagewise exposed lithographic printing plate precursor using a processing solution containing carbonate ion, bicarbonate ion, and a water-soluble polymer compound.
Abstract:
A lithographic printing plate precursor includes an aluminum support subjected to a surface roughening treatment, and an image-recording layer, the image-recording layer contains an infrared absorbing agent, a radical polymerization initiator, a radical polymerizable compound and an inorganic particle which has, on a surface of the inorganic particle, an acrylic polymer as a graft chain and an unexposed area of the image-recording layer is capable of being removed with at least one of oily ink and dampening water.
Abstract:
(1) A packaged body of lithographic printing plate precursors, wherein an image-recording layer or a protective layer of the outermost surface layer contains an inorganic layered compound. (2) A lithographic printing plate precursor having a protective layer containing an inorganic layered compound, and an image-recording layer containing a binder polymer. (3) A lithographic printing plate precursor having a protective layer containing an inorganic layered compound, and an image-recording layer containing an infrared absorber and an iodonium compound.
Abstract:
An aluminum sheet material for lithographic printing plates wherein the number of aluminum carbide particles having a circle equivalent diameter measured by the PoDFA method of 3 μm or more is four or less, the number of aluminum carbide particles having a circle equivalent diameter measured by the PoDFA method of 3 μm or more being measured by melting 3000 g of the aluminum sheet material in a crucible disposed in an electric furnace, filtering 2000 g of the molten metal through a dedicated filter, allowing 1000 g of the molten metal remaining on the filter to solidify, and measuring the number of aluminum carbide particles contained in inclusions in the molten metal deposited on the upper surface of the filter by observing a vertical section (14 mm×10 mm) of the solidified metal including the diameter (14 mm) of the filter in the center area of the filter up to a height of 10 mm above the filter using a microscope.
Abstract:
An object of the present invention is to provide a method for plate-making of a lithographic printing original plate having excellent restart toning recovery properties, and particularly an infrared-sensitive positive working lithographic printing original plate.The present invention relates to a method for plate-making of a lithographic printing original plate comprising an intermediate layer containing a polymer having a phosphonic acid group or a phosphoric acid group disposed between a substrate and an image recording layer, the method comprising the steps of image-wise exposing the lithographic printing original plate, developing, and treating using a plate surface protective solution containing a starch having an onium group.
Abstract:
A lithographic printing plate precursor includes: a support; and a photosensitive layer containing (A) an initiator compound, (B) a polymerizable compound and (C) a binder, wherein the photosensitive layer or other layer in contact with the support contains as (D) a component different from the component (C), a copolymer containing (a1) a repeating unit having at least one ethylenically unsaturated bond introduced through an ion pair and (a2) a repeating unit having at least one functional group capable of interacting with a surface of the support.
Abstract:
A lithographic printing plate precursor includes an aluminum support subjected to a roughening treatment and an image-recording layer containing an infrared absorbing agent, a radical polymerization initiator, a radical polymerizable monomer, a compound having two or more mercapto group-containing groups per molecule and a polymer particle containing a polyalkylene oxide segment.