Abstract:
A laser sensitive lithographic printing plate comprises an electrochemically grained, anodized, hydrophilically treated aluminum substrate with a reflection optical density of 0.30 or higher; a free radical polymerizable photosensitive layer; and a water soluble or dispersible overcoat. The photosensitive layer comprises a polymeric binder, a free radical polymerizable monomer, a free radical initiator, and a sensitizing dye. Such dark aluminum substrate in combination with the hydrophilic treatment allows both clean background and good printing durability. Such plate can be exposed with a suitable laser at lower dosage to cause hardening in the exposed areas. The exposed plate can be developed with a regular liquid developer or with ink and/or fountain solution.
Abstract:
A hydrophilic substrate comprising: a hydrophilic layer; and a support, wherein the hydrophilic layer contains a hydrophilic particle having a surface area of from 1 to 1,000 m2/g.
Abstract:
A heat-sensitive lithographic printing plate precursor is disclosed which comprises a support having a hydrophilic surface and a coating which does not dissolve in an aqueous alkaline developer in the unexposed areas and which becomes soluble in an aqueous alkaline developer in the exposed areas, and an intermediate layer between said hydrophilic surface or said hydrophilic layer and said coating, wherein the intermediate layer comprises a first polymer having a first monomeric unit of formula I wherein R1, R2 and R3 are independently a hydrogen atom or an optionally substituted alkyl group, R4 and R5 are independently an optionally substituted alkyl, cycloalkyl, aryl or arylalkyl group. The precursor exhibits an excellent differentiation in dissolution kinetics between the exposed and non-exposed areas of the coating and a high chemical resistance against printing liquids and press chemicals.
Abstract:
A plate-making method is capable of recording a sharp image on a photosensitive plate, and is applicable to a process operation executed in a light room, while adverse influences caused by laser flares can be hardly received. Ultra-short pulse laser light emitted from a Ti:Al2O3 laser light source is modulated by an AOM (acousto-optic modulating element). The modulated laser light is focused by a collective lens onto a high-sensitive photopolymer layer of a photosensitive plate-making material. The focused ultra-short pulse laser light may cause a photopolymerization reaction in a laser-light-irradiated portion of the high-sensitive photopolymer layer by way of a multiple photon absorption phenomenon, so as to form a hardened portion.
Abstract translation:制版方法能够在感光板上记录清晰的图像,并且适用于在光室中执行的处理操作,同时难以接收到由激光耀斑引起的不利影响。 从Ti:Al 2 O 3 3激光光源发射的超短脉冲激光由AOM(声光调制元件)调制。 调制的激光由集体透镜聚焦到感光制版材料的高灵敏度感光聚合物层上。 聚焦超短脉冲激光可以通过多光子吸收现象在高灵敏度感光聚合物层的激光照射部分中引起光聚合反应,从而形成硬化部分。
Abstract:
A polymer, which contains a structural unit having a carboxyl group represented by the following formula (1) at a side chain of the structural unit, wherein node position is formed, when the polymer is dissolved in an alkali aqueous solution having a pH of 10 or more and kept at 25° C. for 60 days: wherein R1 represents a hydrogen atom or a methyl group; R2 represents an (n+1)-valent organic linking group containing an ester group represented by —O(C═O)—; A represents an oxygen atom or NR3—; R3 represents a hydrogen atom, or an monovalent hydrocarbon group having from 1 to 10 carbon atoms; and n indicates an integer of from 1 to 5.
Abstract translation:在聚合物溶解在pH为10的碱性水溶液中的情况下,在结构单元的侧链含有具有下述式(1)表示的羧基的结构单元的聚合物,其中形成节点位置 或更高,并保持在25℃下60天:其中R 1表示氢原子或甲基; R 2表示含有由-O(C-O) - 表示的酯基的(n + 1)价有机连接基团; A表示氧原子或NR 3 - ; R 3表示氢原子或具有1至10个碳原子的一价烃基; n表示1〜5的整数。
Abstract:
The present invention relates to a method for forming images which comprises imagewise exposing a photopolymerizable image-forming material comprising a substrate provided thereon with an image-recording layer which comprises a specific photopolymerization initiator system, a polymerizable compound carrying at least one ethylenically unsaturated group and a binder polymer and then developing the imagewise exposed material with a developer containing at least one carbonate and at least one hydrogen carbonate and a specific surfactant in an amount ranging from 1.0 to 10% by weight, and having a specific pH and a specific electrical conductivity. The image-forming method permits the achievement of a sufficient developing ability even at a relatively low pH at which the image-forming material is not damaged so much and the preparation of a printing plate having good printing durability.
Abstract:
The planographic printing plate precursor of the present invention comprises a support, an intermediate layer containing a polymer having an aromatic ring having two or more carboxylic acid groups on a side chain, which is provided on the support, and an infrared-ray layer photosensitive positive-type recording layer provided on the intermediate layer. According to the invention, a planographic printing plate precursor which can directly make plates by scanning light exposure based on a digital signal, is excellent in printing durability, and is excellent in removability of image parts not required with a removal solution.
Abstract:
A lithographic printing plate precursor comprising: a support; an image-recording layer; and a protective layer containing an inorganic stratiform compound, provided in this order, wherein the inorganic stratiform compound contains an organic cation.
Abstract:
A heat-sensitive lithographic printing plate of the present invention, which enables image recording by infrared-ray scanning exposure based on digital data and has excellent on-press developability, high resistance to scumming and a long press life, the heat-sensitive lithographic printing plate having on a support with a hydrophilic surface an image-forming layer made up of microcapsules in which a reactive group-containing hydrophobic compound is enclosed, a light-to-heat converting agent and a water-soluble compound which has a reactive group capable of reacting with the hydrophobic compound and is situated outside the microcapsules.
Abstract:
A process for producing a heat mode-compatible positive planographic printing plate precursor comprising a support and a photosensitive layer whose solubility in an aqueous alkali solution increases upon heat-mode exposure, which includes: applying a photosensitive layer coating solution onto the support, and drying the photosensitive layer coating solution at a drying temperature not less than 150° C. and not greater than 200° C. and for a drying time of 110 seconds or less.