Abstract:
To provide a lithographic printing plate precursor capable of obtaining a plenty of sheets of good printed matters with practical energy dosage, which is excellent in on-press developing property and press life, and capable of reducing pollution of fountain solution, and provide a lithographic printing method. The lithographic printing plate precursor comprises a support having provided thereon an image-recording layer, which lithographic printing plate precursor is mounted on a printing press and imagewise exposed, or mounted on the printing press after imagewise exposure, and then developed by feeding printing ink and/or a fountain solution, wherein at least a part of the unexposed part of the image-recording layer is not dissolved in the printing ink, the fountain solution or both of them, and removed by falling out of film, and the invention provides a lithographic printing method using the same.
Abstract:
An infrared-sensitive planographic printing plate precursor including: a support; a recording layer capable of forming an image through infrared irradiation provided on or above one surface of the support, the recording layer containing a resin, which is water-insoluble and alkali-soluble, and an infrared absorbent; and an organic polymer layer provided on or above the other surface of the support, wherein when the organic polymer layer is formed, a solvent is used, and the total amount of solvent remaining in the organic polymer layer is 10 mg per gram of the organic polymer or less is provided.
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:
Positive-working imageable elements comprise a radiation absorbing compound and inner and outer layers on a substrate having a hydrophilic surface. The inner layer comprises a combination of two different polymeric binders one of which has an acid number of at least 30, which combination of polymers provides improved post-development bakeability (more quickly baked or cured at lower temperatures) and desired digital speed with no loss in chemical resistance.
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:
A polymerizable negative planographic printing plate precursor including a hydrophilic support, and a polymerizable negative photosensitive layer and a protective layer containing polyvinylalcohol, organic resin fine particles (preferably, having an absolute specific gravity of 0.90 to 1.25 and an average particle diameter of 2.0 to 15 μm) and mica particles (preferably, at an organic resin fine particle/mica particle ratio in the range of 3:1 to 2:3) as a top layer formed on the hydrophilic support in this order.
Abstract:
A method for preparing a lithographic printing plate comprising: exposing a lithographic printing plate precursor comprising: a support having a hydrophilic surface; a photosensitive layer containing a phthalocyanine pigment covered with a polymer having a group represented by the formula (I) or (II) as defined herein in its side chain and a hydrophobic binder polymer having an acid value of 0.3 meq/g or less; and a protective layer provided in this order; and removing the protective layer and an unexposed area of the photosensitive layer in a presence of a developer having pH of from 2 to 10 in an automatic processor equipped with a rubbing member.
Abstract:
A positive planographic printing plate precursor includes a support having disposed thereon a lower thermosensitive layer containing a water-insoluble but alkali-soluble polymer compound and an upper thermosensitive layer containing a water-insoluble but alkali-soluble polymer compound, with alkali-solubility increasing under heat, wherein (i) both the upper thermosensitive layer and the lower thermosensitive layer contain an IR absorbing dye, with the ratio of the IR absorbing dye concentration in the upper thermosensitive layer to the IR absorbing dye concentration in the lower thermosensitive layer is 1.6 to 10.0, and/or (ii) the upper thermosensitive layer and the lower thermosensitive layer contain different IR absorbing dyes, and/or (iii) at least one of the upper thermosensitive layer and the lower thermosensitive layer contains an IR absorbent having, in one molecule, at least two chromophoric groups that absorb IR light, with the chromophoric groups bonding to each other via a covalent bond.
Abstract:
A heat-sensitive lithographic printing plate precursor comprising a support having thereon two image-forming layers each containing a polymer insoluble in water and soluble in an aqueous alkaline solution, wherein an upper layer of the image-forming layers contains a copolymer including a monomer unit represented by formula (A) defined in the specification.
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.