Abstract:
A printing plate, its preparation method, and a printing method. The printing plate comprises a substrate, an ink repulsive layer attaching to the surface of the substrate and a graphic-text layer attaching to partial surface of the ink repulsive layer, the ink repulsive layer comprises fluoropolymer and silicon-containing nano-particle dispersed in the fluoropolymer, the fluoropolymer comprises fluorine-containing structural unit and optional acrylate-based structural unit. The present invention constitutes a graphic-text area which is affinity to water-based printing ink and an area without graphic-text which is repulsion to water-based printing ink on the surface of the planographic printing plate.
Abstract:
A negative-working lithographic printing plate precursor includes a coating containing a photopolymerizable layer and optionally an intermediate layer between the photopolymerizable layer and the support, wherein the coating further includes a polysiloxane, the polysiloxane being present in the photopolymerizable layer and/or in the optional intermediate layer, and the polysiloxane is obtained by reacting at least one organosilicon compound represented by the general Formula (I) and at least one organosilicon compound represented by the general Formula (II):
Abstract:
The invention provides an infrared-sensitive positive-working image forming material which provides excellent development latitude, image formability and image region strength, and in which decrease in development property is prevented even when a certain time has passed after pattern exposure until development treatment; an infrared-sensitive positive-working planographic printing plate precursor which is formed from the image forming material and has excellent image formability and image region printing durability; and a method for manufacturing a planographic printing plate using the planographic printing plate precursor. The image forming material includes; on a support, a lower layer containing a polymer having carboxylic acid groups at side chains thereof, at least a part of the carboxylic acid groups forming a salt structure with a monovalent basic compound, and an infrared absorbing agent; and an upper layer whose solubility to aqueous alkaline solution is increased by heat, in this order.
Abstract:
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.
Abstract translation: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。
Abstract:
A positive-working, ablation-imagable lithographic printing plate precursor can be imaged and used for lithographic printing without wet processing. This precursor has a sulfuric acid or phosphoric acid anodized aluminum-containing substrate, a crosslinked hydrophilic inner layer comprising a crosslinked polymer derived by using a crosslinking agent that comprises at least two aldehyde groups, and an acidic compound. Over the crosslinked hydrophilic inner layer is an oleophilic outer layer comprising an infrared radiation absorber and an oleophilic polymer. The precursor also has a copolymer comprising randomly recurring units derived from each of a (meth)acrylamide and vinyl phosphonic acid. This copolymer is present either within the crosslinked hydrophilic inner layer, as part of a different copolymer layer between the crosslinked hydrophilic inner layer and the substrate, or in both places.
Abstract:
The present invention provides a lithographic printing plate precursor which exhibits satisfactory ink cleanup and restart toning characteristics during printing.Disclosed is a lithographic printing plate precursor comprising a substrate having thereon in order an interlayer containing a copolymer comprising K units and L units, and an image-forming layer, wherein said K unit is derived from a monomer of the formula I: wherein R1 represents a hydrogen atom, a C1-22 linear, branched or cyclic alkyl group, a C1-22 linear, branched or cyclic, substituted alkyl group, a C6-24 aryl group or substituted aryl group, wherein the substituent is selected from a C1-4alkyl group, an aryl group, a halogen atom, a keto group, an ester group, an alkoxy group, or a cyano group; Y represent a single bond, or a C1-22 linear, branched or cyclic alkylene; or CH2═CHPO(OH)2; and said L unit is derived from a monomer of the formula II: CH2═CRCONH2 (II) wherein R is H or CH3, and said K units are present from more than 3% and less than 40% and said L units are present from more than 60% and less than 97% in the copolymer.
Abstract:
To provide a lithographic printing plate precursor which is excellent in the gum development property, running processing property and scratch resistance and a lithographic printing plate precursor which is good in all performances of the on-press development property, ink receptivity, sensitivity and printing durability, and a method of producing thereof. A lithographic printing plate precursor has a support, an image-recording layer containing a radical polymerization initiator and a radical polymerizable compound, and an overcoat layer containing a polymer resin which has a cloud point in an aqueous solution and includes a monomer unit containing at least any of an amino group and an amido bond, in this order.
Abstract:
A lithographic printing plate precursor includes a support and an image-recording layer containing a star polymer, a radical polymerizable compound and a radical polymerization initiator, the star polymer is a star polymer in which a polymer chain is branched from a central skeleton via a sulfide bond and the polymer chain contains an acid group and a crosslinkable group in a side chain of the polymer chain.
Abstract:
A lithographic printing plate precursor includes, in the following order: a support; an image-recording layer which is capable of forming an image by removing an unexposed area with at least one of printing ink and dampening water on a printing machine after exposure and contains (A) an infrared absorbing dye, (B) a polymerization initiator, (C) a polymerizable compound and (D) a binder polymer having an alkylene oxide group; and a protective layer containing (E) a hydrophilic polymer containing at least a repeating unit represented by the formula (1) as defined herein and a repeating unit represented by the formula (2) as defined herein.
Abstract:
A method of making a planographic printing plate, the method includes exposing, to infrared light, a planographic printing plate precursor including a recording layer provided on a substrate; and developing the precursor using an aqueous alkaline solution, in which the recording layer comprises a copolymer containing a structural unit derived from (meth)acrylonitrile and a structural unit derived from styrene, a water-insoluble and alkali-soluble resin, and an infrared absorbing agent, the solubility of the recording layer in the aqueous alkaline solution being increased by the exposure, and in which the aqueous alkaline solution has a pH of 8.5 to 10.8 and contains a betaine-based amphoteric surfactant and an ammonium salt represented by Formula (I): wherein, R1, R2, R3, and R4 each independently represent an alkyl or aryl group; the total number of carbon atoms in R1, R2, R3, and R4 is not more than 20; and X− represents a counter anion.