摘要:
The method and apparatus make a printing plate such as a lithographic printing plate by exposing an original plate of the printing plate such as a presensitized plate in a substantially oxygen-free state. The method and apparatus deprive substantially of oxygen at least an exposed area of the original plate being exposed to light at least during exposure and expose the original plate to the light at a wavelength of between 250 nm and 420 nm. The original plate has on a support an image recording layer containing a polymerization initiator, a polymerizable compound and a binder polymer, being sensitive to the light at the wavelengths of between 250 nm and 420 nm, having no oxygen barrier layer, and being removable with a printing ink and/or a fountain solution. That is, a latent image is formed by photo-polymerization on the original plate and the original plate is subjected to development on a printing press.
摘要:
The plate exposing apparatus includes an exposing unit for exposing to light an original plate of a printing plate that does not have an oxygen barrier layer, on which latent image is formed by photo-polymerization based on exposure and which is subjected to alkali development, an oxygen interrupting unit for ensuring that the exposure is performed such that at least an exposed area of the original plate being exposed to light are substantially deprived of oxygen at least during the exposure and an oxygen blocking time control unit for controlling a period of time for which oxygen is interrupted by the oxygen interrupting unit.
摘要:
A laser beam emitted by a semiconductor laser is applied through a beam shaper optical system to a recording film to produce the image of a near field pattern of the laser beam which is of a narrow width in a main scanning direction of the recording film and which has a wide, substantially rectangular intensity distribution in an auxiliary scanning direction. The image recorded on the recording film is free of image density irregularities in the auxiliary scanning direction.
摘要:
A printing plate making apparatus which scans a recording medium by light beam in a predetermined pixel pitch, thereby engraving a surface of the recording medium to make a printing plate, wherein an upper surface of a convex portion of light power of the light beam engraving all or part of an adjacent region which is adjacent to a convex portion which is to be left in a convex shape on a surface of the recording medium is set to an threshold engraving energy or less, and light power of light beam in a vicinity region in vicinity of outer side of a region defined as the adjacent region is brought higher than light power in the adjacent region.
摘要:
The present invention provides an exposure processing method of a planographic printing plate including: providing an image recording layer containing a polymerizable compound which is solid at room temperature, a polymerization initiator, and a light-to-heat converting agent, and a microcapsule encapsulating at least one of the monomer and the polymerization initiator, such that the light energy quantity absorbed in the lower part of the image recording layer is more than the light energy quantity absorbed in the upper and middle parts of the image recording layer; exposing the image recording layer; and thereafter post-heating the image recording layer at a temperature in a range equal to or above the melting point of the monomer and below the glass transition point of the wall of the microcapsule. As a result, the printing resistance of a planographic printing plate is enhanced.
摘要:
An image forming device for planographic printing plates which, before printing, carries out water developing and heating processing after the water developing, of a planographic printing plate which can be developed by water, the image forming device includes: a laser recording section which forms a latent image by laser-exposing an image recording layer portion of the planographic printing plate at a weak laser power of an extent that one-third, at a surface side, of the image recording layer in a direction of thickness thereof can be hardened; a water developing section which strips film of unexposed portions of the image recording layer by causing a film-stripping medium, which is selected from the group consisting of steam, water, aqueous liquids, and mixtures of a gas and at least one of water and an aqueous liquid, to hit the planographic printing plate on which a latent image has been formed at the image recording layer portion by the laser recording section; and a post-development heating processing section which heats the planographic printing plate, after the planographic printing plate has been subjected to water developing processing by the water developing section, and hardens the image recording layer portion.
摘要:
The present invention provides an exposure processing method of a planographic printing plate comprising: providing an image recording layer containing a polymerizable compound which is solid at the room temperature, a polymerization initiator, and a light-to-heat converting agent, and a microcapsule encapsulating at least one of the monomer and the polymerization initiator, such that the light energy quantity absorbed in the lower part of the image recording layer is more than the light energy quantity absorbed in the upper and middle parts of the image recording layer; exposing the image recording layer, and thereafter post-heating the image recording layer at a temperature in a range equal to or above the melting point of the monomer and below the glass transition point of the wall of the microcapsule. As a result, the printing resistance of a planographic printing plate is enhanced.
摘要:
The present invention provides an exposure processing method of a planographic printing plate comprising: providing an image recording layer containing a polymerizable compound which is solid at the room temperature, a polymerization initiator, and a light-to-heat converting agent, and a microcapsule encapsulating at least one of the monomer and the polymerization initiator, such that the light energy quantity absorbed in the lower part of the image recording layer is more than the light energy quantity absorbed in the upper and middle parts of the image recording layer; exposing the image recording layer, and thereafter post-heating the image recording layer at a temperature in a range equal to or above the melting point of the monomer and below the glass transition point of the wall of the microcapsule. As a result, the printing resistance of a planographic printing plate is enhanced.
摘要:
An inner drum exposure apparatus is disclosed in which a linearly polarized light beam emitted from a light source is converted to circularly polarized light. This in turn is passed through a single-axis crystal optical element so as to be split into equal light quantities of an ordinary ray and an extraordinary ray in a sub-scanning direction. These rays are subsequently reflected at a reflective mirror surface of a scanning unit so as to be focussed at a beam spot which is distributed on a recording medium in an approximately rectangular configuration with respect to the sub-scanning direction and has steep edge portions, thereby performing exposure processing.
摘要:
An array refracting element for dividing laser beams in a sub-scanning direction, which is formed by linearly disposing a pair of refracting members, each having a unit surface shape for dividing one incident laser beam into two and emitting the divided laser beams, so that directions in which the laser beams are divided are coincident with each other and so that the refracting members locate along the division direction, is disposed on an optical path of the laser beams emitted from plural semiconductor lasers, and between a laser-beam outgoing opening of a fiber array section and a recording film. As a result, an array refracting element and an exposure device, which can improve quality of a recording image at an exposure recording apparatus at a low cost, can be obtained.