Abstract:
An object of the present invention is to provide an image formation material exhibiting exposure visualization with excellent color development, and further to provide a printing plate material exhibiting excellent on-press developability, accompanied with excellent exposure visualization and printing durability. Also disclosed is an image formation material possessing a support and provided thereon, a thermosensitive image formation layer, wherein the thermosensitive image formation layer comprises water-insoluble particle (A), electron providing dye precursor (B) and electron accepting dye color developing agent (C), and at least one of the precursor (B) and the color developing agent (C) is provided on a surface of the particle (A).
Abstract:
A heat-sensitive negative-working lithographic printing plate precursor include a support having a hydrophilic surface or which is provided with a hydrophilic layer and a coating provided thereon, the coating including an image-recording layer which includes hydrophobic thermoplastic polymer particles, a binder, and an infrared absorbing dye; wherein the hydrophobic thermoplastic polymer particles have an average particle diameter, measured by Photon Correlation Spectroscopy, of more than 10 nm and less than 40 nm; the amount of the IR-dye, without taking into account an optional counter ion, is more than 0.80 mg per m2 of the total surface of the thermoplastic polymer particles, measured by Hydrodynamic Fraction; and—the amount of hydrophobic thermoplastic polymer particles relative to the total weight of the ingredients of the imaging layer is at least 60-%.
Abstract:
The invention provides a planographic printing plate precursor having at least: a support; and an image recording layer that is provided on or above the support, the image recording layer containing at least: an infrared ray absorbing agent (A); a polymerization initiator (B); a polymerizable monomer (C); and a polymer compound (D) having, in a side chain thereof, at least one specific polymerizable functional group having a hydroxyl group; and following exposure of the planographic printing plate precursor, an unexposed portion of the image recording layer is removed with a gum solution. The invention further provides a plate making method including imagewise exposing the planographic printing plate precursor and developing the planographic printing plate precursor by processing the exposed planographic printing plate precursor with a gum solution so as to remove an unexposed portion of the image recording layer
Abstract:
A negative-working lithographic printing plate precursor is disclosed that can be developed on the press without going through a development processing step, and a method of lithographic printing is also disclosed that uses this negative-working lithographic printing plate precursor. A negative-working lithographic printing plate precursor is provided that exhibits excellent on-press developability, nonimage area fine line reproducibility and printing durability and that resists the production of scum during on-press development. The negative-working lithographic printing plate precursor has a hydrophilic support and has thereon a photopolymerizable layer that contains at least one selected from the group consisting of a polymer compound that has an ethylenically unsaturated bond in the side chain position, a hydrophilic group and a sulfonamide group and a polymer compound that has an ethylenically unsaturated bond in the side chain position, a hydrophilic group and a cyclic structure derived from a maleimide. The method of lithographic printing uses this negative-working lithographic printing plate precursor.
Abstract:
A method for making a lithographic printing plate includes the steps of (i) providing a negative-working, heat-sensitive lithographic printing plate precursor including a support having a hydrophilic surface or which is provided with a hydrophilic layer and a coating provided thereon, the coating including an image-recording layer which includes hydrophobic thermoplastic polymer particles, a binder, and an infrared absorbing dye, wherein the hydrophobic thermoplastic polymer particles have an average particle diameter, measured by Photon Correlation Spectroscopy, of more than 10 nm and less than 40 nm, and the amount of the IR-dye, without taking into account an optional counter ion, is more than 0.70 mg per m2 of the total surface of the thermoplastic polymer particles, measured by Hydrodynamic Fractionation, and the amount of hydrophobic thermoplastic polymer particles relative to the total weight of the ingredients of the imaging layer is at least 60%; (ii) exposing the precursor to infrared light; and (iii) developing the exposed precursor in an alkaline aqueous solution.
Abstract:
A processing method of a lithographic printing plate precursor includes: exposing imagewise a lithographic printing plate precursor comprising a support on a surface of which at least one of: a hydrophilizing treatment; and an undercoat layer has been provided and an image-recording layer, to cure an exposed area of the image-recording layer; and undergoing developing processing with an aqueous solution having pH of from 2 to 10, wherein the aqueous solution comprises an amphoteric surfactant and an anionic surfactant selected from an anionic surfactant having an aliphatic chain and a total number of carbon atoms included in the aliphatic chain of 6 or more and an anionic surfactant having an aromatic ring and a total number of carbon atoms of 12 or more, and a content of the anionic surfactant is from 0.1 to 3.3% by weight of the aqueous solution.
Abstract:
A negative-working imageable composition and element includes an initiator composition, an infrared radiation absorbing compound, a polymeric binder, and a stabilizing composition. The imaged element can be developed on-press and exhibits improved shelf-life under high humidity conditions. The stabilizing composition comprising at least one compound represented by Structure (ST-I) and at least one compound represented by Structure (ST-II): wherein m is 1 or 2, n is 1 to 50, R is hydrogen when m is 1, R1 through R3 are independently hydrogen or methyl, and L is an aliphatic, carbocyclic, heterocyclic, heteroatom divalent linking group, or a combination thereof.
Abstract translation:负性可成像组合物和元素包括引发剂组合物,红外辐射吸收化合物,聚合物粘合剂和稳定化组合物。 成像元件可以在印刷机上显影,并且在高湿度条件下显示改善的保存期限。 所述稳定化组合物包含至少一种由结构(ST-1)表示的化合物和至少一种由结构(ST-II)表示的化合物:其中m为1或2,n为1至50,当m为1时,R为氢 R 1至R 3独立地为氢或甲基,L为脂族,碳环,杂环,杂原子二价连接基团或其组合。
Abstract:
A polymerizable composition comprising: a polyurethane resin synthesized by using a compound represented by the following formula (I) as one of starting materials; a photopolymerization or thermal polymerization initiator; and an addition-polymerizable compound having an ethylenically unsaturated bond: wherein X represents a tri- or higher valent atom; R1 and R2 each independently represent a single bond or an alkylene group optionally having a substituent, provided that R1 and R2 do not represent a single bond at a same time; A represents a straight chain linking group; and n is an integer of from 1 to 5.
Abstract:
The present invention provides a planographic printing plate precursor including a support and a positive recording layer formed on the support and containing: (A) a polymer having a structural unit represented by the following general formula (1), (B) a photo-thermal converting agent, and (C) an amino compound having a methylol group or an alkoxymethyl group; and a positive recording layer whose solubility in an alkaline developer is improved by exposure to light or by heating. In general formula (1), R1 represents an alkyl group or a cyclic group, x represents 0 or 1, and A represents a bivalent bonding group. According to the invention, a positive planographic printing plate precursor for use with infrared lasers having excellent chemical resistance and wide image development latitude can be obtained.
Abstract:
A lithographic printing plate precursor includes: an aluminum support; an intermediate layer; and an image-recording layer, in this order, wherein at least one of the intermediate layer and the image-recording layer contains a compound having an amino group and a functional group capable of interacting with the aluminum support in a molecule.