Abstract:
The invention provides an ink composition having at least (A) a polymerization initiator, (B) an ester or amide of (meth)acrylic acid having a 1,3-dioxolane ring skeleton or a 1,3-dioxane ring skeleton or (B′) an ester or amide of (meth)acrylic acid having a 1,3-diketone structure, and (C) a colorant. The invention further provides an inkjet recording method and a method for producing a planographic printing plate, each of which includes at least (I) ejecting the ink composition onto a hydrophilic support and (II) curing the ink composition by irradiating the ejected ink composition with active radiation so as to form a hydrophobic image region on the hydrophilic support. The invention furthermore provides a planographic printing plate formed by the method for producing a planographic printing plate.
Abstract:
The present invention provides an ink composition, and inkjet recording method, a printed material, a production method of a planographic printing plate, and a planographic printing plate. The ink composition of the present invention contains a cationically polymerizable compound, a compound that generates an acid when irradiated with a radiation ray, and an onium salt compound that generates an organic acid compound having a basic nitrogen atom when irradiated with a radiation ray.
Abstract:
The present invention provides an ink composition including a polymerization initiator and a monofunctional (meth)acrylate having a —CONH— bond in the molecule thereof. The present invention also provides an ink jet recording method and a planographic printing plate producing method using the ink composition, and a planographic printing plate prepared by the planographic printing plate producing method.
Abstract:
A heat mode-applicable image-formation material having high sensitivity and excellent image-forming property, and a novel infrared absorber which can be suitably used in this material. The present invention relates to a substrate carrying thereon an image-formation layer which contains an infrared absorption agent. The agent has at least one surface orientation group in the molecule, and solubility of the image-formation layer in an alkaline aqueous solution is changed by action of radiation in the near-infrared range. Preferable as the infrared absorbing agent is an infrared absorber comprising, in a molecule thereof, a fluorine-containing substituent which have at least 5 fluorine atoms, or a polymethine chain of at least 5 carbon atoms and an alkyl group of at least 8 carbon atoms, said alkyl group being connected to the polymethine chain via any of nitrogen, oxygen and sulfur.
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 positive resist composition comprises: a compound capable of directly or indirectly generating a radical (A) on irradiation with an energy ray; or a cyclic ether compound.
Abstract:
An image-forming material which has high sensitivity and is excellent in image-forming performance and which does not produce smudges on an optical system of an exposing apparatus, and a planographic printing original plate which uses this image-forming material and can produce images by an infrared laser for a direct plate-making process. These can be achieved by an image-forming material containing an infrared absorber having in the same molecule thereof two or more chromophoric groups which can absorb infrared radiation and are each bonded by a covalent bond.
Abstract:
A positive-type planographic printing material contains (a) a water-insoluble and alkaline water-soluble polymer including a main chain and having a phenol structure in the main chain, the phenol structure having an aromatic ring and at least one electron-withdrawing substituent on the aromatic ring; and (b) an infrared absorbing agent.
Abstract:
Disclosed are a photosensitive composition characterized by high sensitivity and good latitude in development, and a positive-type planographic printing plate precursor that uses the composition in a direct plate production process and enables an image to be formed with high sensitivity with an infrared laser. Namely, the photosensitive composition is disclosed comprising components (a) and (b) as follows and becoming soluble in an aqueous alkaline solution when irradiated with an infrared laser: (a) an infrared-ray absorbing agent represented by formula (I) as follows; and (b) a polymeric compound insoluble in water but soluble in an aqueous alkaline solution
Abstract:
The negative working image recording image recording material of the present invention is a negative working image recording material comprising (A) a compound which acts as a cross-linking agent in the presence of an acid, (B) a binder polymer, (C) a compound which generates an acid by the action of heat and (D) an infrared absorber, wherein (A) the compound which acts as a cross-linking agent in the presence of an acid is a phenol derivative represented by the following general formula (I) or (II) wherein each of the groups is defined and wherein (B) the binder polymer is a polymer having in the side chain an aromatic hydrocarbon ring having directly linked thereto a hydroxyl group or an alkoxy group if (A) is a phenol derivative represented by the general formula (I), but (B) the binder polymer is a polymer having in the main chain or the side chain an aromatic hydrocarbon ring having directly linked thereto a hydroxyl group or an alkoxy group if (A) is a phenol derivative represented by the general formula (II). ##STR1##