摘要:
Disclosed is a support for a lithographic printing plate which, when measured over a 400 μm×400 μm surface region thereon using a three-dimensional non-contact roughness tester, has at most 5.0 convex portions of a height from centerline of at least 0.70 μm and an equivalent circle diameter of at least 20 μm, and has at least 800 concave portions of a depth from centerline of at least 0.50 μm and an equivalent circle diameter of at least 2.0 μm. Presensitized plates which are obtainable by using the support for a lithographic printing plate according to the present invention have an excellent scumming resistance and an extremely long press life.
摘要:
In a process for producing an aluminum support of a lithographic printing plate, the desired aluminum support is produced by imparting fine asperities to an aluminum plate and then roughening it electrochemically in an acidic aqueous solution. The roughened aluminum plate may be electropolished or chemically etched.
摘要:
Disclosed are (i) a method of producing a support for planographic printing plate, which comprises melting an aluminum ingot having an aluminum content of not less than 99.7 wt % to prepare a cast ingot, scalping the surface of the cast ingot, soaking the scalped cast ingot, cold rolling the soaked ingot to a thickness of 0.1 to 0.5 mm, correction of the resulting sheet to prepare an aluminum support, and then graining the aluminum support and (ii) a method of producing a support for planographic printing plate, which comprises melting an aluminum ingot having an aluminum content of not less than 99.7 wt % to prepare a cast ingot in a melt holding furnace, directly subjecting the cast ingot to continuous casting to prepare a thin sheet having a thickness of 2 to 30 mm, cold rolling the thin sheet, correction of the resulting sheet to prepare an aluminum support, and then graining the aluminum support.
摘要:
A presensitized plate having a long press life and excellent resistance to scum and corrosive micro-stains and capable of on-press development is provided. The presensitized plate includes a photosensitive layer containing (A) a sensitizing dye, (B) a polymerization initiator, (C) a polymerizable compound, and (D) a binder polymer; and a protective layer which are formed on a support in this order. The support is prepared from an aluminum alloy plate containing intermetallic compound particles with a circle equivalent diameter of 0.2 μm or more at a surface density of 35,000 pcs/mm2 or more and aluminum carbide particles with a maximum length of 1 μm or more in an amount of up to 30,000 pcs/g.
摘要翻译:提供具有长的印刷寿命和优异的抗浮渣和腐蚀性微污染并且能够进行印刷机发展的预感板。 预感板包括含有(A)增感染料,(B)聚合引发剂,(C)可聚合化合物和(D)粘合剂聚合物的感光层; 和保护层,其形成在载体上。 该载体由含有金属间化合物颗粒的铝合金板制备,其中当量直径为0.2μm或更大的圆形当量的表面密度为35,000pcs / mm 2或更高,最大长度为1μm或更大的碳化铝颗粒的量为 高达30,000个/ g。
摘要:
An aluminum alloy sheet for a lithographic printing plate which has excellent ink stain resistance, with a local defect in a photosensitive layer after long-term storage being hard to occur, and excellent the pit uniformity after a roughening and a manufacturing method thereof are provided.An aluminum alloy sheet for a lithographic printing plate containing a predetermined content of Fe, Si, Cu and Ti as well as one type or more selected from B and C, and composed of remaining Al and inevitable impurities, in which a concentration of an aluminum carbide present in the aluminum alloy sheet is not more than 8 ppm, an area occupancy of aggregation substances present on the aluminum alloy sheet surface after the roughening treatment with respect to an arbitrary circle with a radius 5 μm in the aluminum alloy sheet surface is less than 10%. In a case where the area occupancy is not less than 10%, the aggregation substances are present at a rate of 1 to 2 pieces/50 cm2.
摘要:
An aluminum sheet material for lithographic printing plates wherein the number of aluminum carbide particles having a circle equivalent diameter measured by the PoDFA method of 3 μm or more is four or less, the number of aluminum carbide particles having a circle equivalent diameter measured by the PoDFA method of 3 μm or more being measured by melting 3000 g of the aluminum sheet material in a crucible disposed in an electric furnace, filtering 2000 g of the molten metal through a dedicated filter, allowing 1000 g of the molten metal remaining on the filter to solidify, and measuring the number of aluminum carbide particles contained in inclusions in the molten metal deposited on the upper surface of the filter by observing a vertical section (14 mm×10 mm) of the solidified metal including the diameter (14 mm) of the filter in the center area of the filter up to a height of 10 mm above the filter using a microscope.
摘要:
An aluminum alloy sheet for a lithographic printing plate which allows pits to be more uniformly formed by an electrochemical surface-roughening treatment and exhibits more excellent adhesion to a photosensitive film and water retention properties, and a method of producing the same are disclosed. The aluminum alloy sheet includes 0.1 to 1.5% of Mg, more than 0.05% and 0.5% or less of Zn, 0.1 to 0.6% of Fe, 0.03 to 0.15% of Si, 0.0001 to 0.10% of Cu, and 0.0001 to 0.05% of Ti, with the balance being aluminum and impurities, the Mg content and the Zn content satisfying a relationship “4×Zn %−1.4%≦Mg %≦4×Zn %+0.6%”, and the amount of aluminum powder on the surface of the aluminum alloy sheet being 0.1 to 3.0 mg/m2. It is more effective when precipitates with a diameter (circle equivalent diameter) of 0.1 to 1.0 μm are dispersed on the surface of the sheet in a number of 10,000 to 100,000 per square millimeter (mm2).
摘要:
Disclosed is a method of manufacturing, by a continuous casting process, aluminum alloy strip for use in the production of supports for lithographic printing plates, comprising the step of passing an aluminum melt successively through a filtering means, a launder connected to the filtering means, a liquid level controlling means connected to the launder, and a melt feed nozzle connected to the liquid level controlling means, wherein the aluminum melt is obtained by melting an aluminum starting material, then adding to and melting in the molten aluminum starting material a titanium and boron-containing aluminum alloy, and the time t in seconds required for the aluminum melt to pass through the launder satisfies the following condition (1): t≧270×1.2×D , (1) where D is the depth in meters of the melt in the launder.The method is able to prevent the formation of black streaks even when casting is carried out for an extended period of time.
摘要:
A lithographic printing plate support capable of obtaining a presensitized plate which is excellent in scumming resistance and scratch resistance and achieves a good balance between sensitivity and press life, and a method of manufacturing the support are provided. The support includes a surface which has an arithmetic mean roughness Ra of 0.36 to 0.50 μm; not more than 3.0 recesses with a depth of at least 4 μm per 400 μm square region; and a surface area ratio ΔS5(0.02-0.2) determined from Sx5(0.02-0.2) denoting the actual surface area of a 5 μm square surface region as determined by three-point approximation based on data obtained by extracting 0.02 to 0.2 μm wavelength components from three-dimensional data on the surface region measured with an atomic force microscope at 512×512 points and S0 denoting the geometrically measured surface area of the surface region, of 50 to 90%.
摘要:
A lithographic printing plate support in which surface unevenness due to surface treatment has been suppressed and a presensitized plate of excellent sensitivity are produced from an aluminum alloy plate containing iron, silicon, titanium and boron by specifying the state in which TiB2 particles are present in the surface layer and the width of the crystal grains, and by having specific indicators relating to the respective concentrations of iron and silicon in the surface layer following graining treatment fall within specific ranges. In a method of manufacturing the lithographic printing plate support, an aluminum alloy melt having specified alloying ingredients is subjected to a specified casting process to have the amount of the alloying ingredients in solid solution following cold rolling fall within specified ranges.