Abstract:
A method for treating a photosensitive lithographic printing plate, which comprises exposing the photosensitive lithographic printing plate to laser light, developing with a developer containing an alkali metal silicate and then carrying out post-exposure treatment, said photosensitive lithographic printing plate being prepared by forming a photopolymerizable photosensitive layer having a film thickness of from 1.2 to 4 g/m2 and further forming a protective layer having a film thickness of from 2 to 8 g/m2 on a support having a centerline average height (Ra) of at least 0.35 μm.
Abstract translation:一种用于处理感光平版印刷版的方法,其包括将感光性平版印刷版曝光于激光上,用含有碱金属硅酸盐的显影剂显影,然后进行曝光后处理,所述光敏平版印刷版通过形成 在具有中心线平均高度(Ra)的支撑体上进一步形成膜厚度为2〜8g / m 2的保护层的膜厚为1.2〜4g / m 2的光聚合感光层, 至少0.35毫米。
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:
Disclosed is a printing method comprising the steps of mounting an underlay sheet on a plate cylinder of a printing press, and providing, on the underlay sheet, a printing plate material comprising a plastic sheet support, and provided thereon, a hydrophilic layer, an image formation layer and a backing layer, the backing layer being provided on the side of the support opposite the image formation layer, so that the backing layer side surface of the printing plate material contacts the underlay sheet surface, wherein a coefficient of dynamic friction of the backing layer side surface of the printing plate material to the underlay sheet surface is from 0.1 to 0.5.
Abstract:
Various imaging members including lithographic imaging members can be prepared by applying to a support, an aqueous formulation comprising one or more imaging components to form an imaging layer. Over the imaging layer is directly applied a non-aqueous inverse emulsion comprising highly hydrophilic, water-swellable microgel particles dispersed in a water-immiscible organic solvent to form a protective layer. This protective layer provides physical durability but it is still readily removed during or after imaging with water or fountain solutions.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to a presensitized plate useful for making a lithographic printing plate comprising an intermediate layer and a photopolymerizable photosensitive layer on an aluminum substrate in this order, wherein the roughness of a surface of said aluminum substrate (Ra) is in the range of 0.2 to 0.55 &mgr;m and the intermediate layer comprises a polymer compound comprising at least one monomer unit having a sulfonic acid group and a method for making a lithographic printing plate by imagewise exposing the presensitized plate described above and developing the imagewise exposed presensitized plate with a developer comprising an inorganic alkali salt and a nonionic surfactant comprising a polyoxyalkylene ether group. The presensitized plate or the method of the present invention provides a lithographic printing plate showing good contrast between an image area and non-image area, no background contamination during printing, good stability with time and good printing durability.
Abstract:
A photosensitive composition containing an infrared absorber, a borate compound, a polymerizable compound, a binder polymer, and a compound having a weight average molecular weight of not more than 3,000 and containing at least one carboxylic acid group.
Abstract:
Disclosed is a presensitized plate composed of a support having thereon an image recording layer which includes: an infrared absorber (A) that is a cyanine dye having at least one fused ring composed of a nitrogen-containing heterocycle in combination with an aromatic ring or a second heterocycle, and having on the aromatic ring or second heterocycle an electron-withdrawing group or a heavy atom-containing group, a radical generator (B), and a radical-polymerizable compound (C), and which is removable with printing ink and/or dampening water. The presensitized of the present invention can be imaged with an infrared light-emitting laser to directly record an image from digital data on a computer or the like and is then subjected to on-machine development without carrying out a development step, which is capable of providing a large number of good impressions with a practical amount of energy.
Abstract:
The invention provides a negative image-recording material for heat-mode exposure systems, which comprises (A) an IR absorbent including cyanine dye having a substituent that contains an atom having an atomic weight of at least 28 such as halogen atom, or a substituent that contains a non-covalent electron pair such as carbonyl group, (B) a radical generator and (C) a radically-polymerable compound, and which is imagewise exposed to IR rays for image formation thereon.
Abstract:
A negative photosensitive lithographic printing plate comprises: a support; and a photosensitive layer containing: i) a modified poly(vinyl alcohol) resin binder having a radical-polymerizable group and an acid group; and ii) at least one of a photo-polymerization initiator and a heat-polymerization initiator.
Abstract:
A planographic printing plate precursor, including: a substrate; a photosensitive layer containing an IR absorber, a polymerization initiator, a polymerizable compound and a binder polymer; and a protective layer containing a UV absorber, disposed in this order. The photosensitive layer exhibits reduction in solubility in an alkaline developing solution upon being exposed to light having a wavelength of 750 nm to 1400 nm.