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.
Abstract:
A lithographic printing plate precursor, comprising a support having thereon an image-recording layer containing (A) an infrared absorbing agent, (B) a radical polymerization initiator, (C) a radical polymerizable compound, (D) a polymer compound containing a polyoxyalkylene structure and (E) an ultraviolet absorbing agent and being capable of forming an image by supplying at least one of printing ink and dampening water on a printing machine after imagewise exposure to remove an unexposed area of the image-recording layer.
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.
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:
To provide a method for producing a lithographic printing plate precursor excellent in development property and printing durability, which method restrains mixture of both layers at coating and drying an overcoat layer on an image-recording layer. A method for producing a polymerizable lithographic printing plate precursor including (a) a step of coating a coating solution of an image-recording layer containing (A) a sensitizing dye, (B) a radical polymerization initiator and (C) a radical polymerizable compound on a support, (b) a first drying step of supplying hot air to the image-recording layer, (c) a second drying step of supplying hot air and superheated vapor to the image-recording layer after the first drying step, (d) a step of coating an overcoat layer on the image-recording layer, and (e) a step of drying the overcoat layer.
Abstract:
A lithographic printing plate precursor is provided that, using laser exposure, exhibits an excellent capacity for plate inspection, an excellent on-press development performance or gum development performance, and an excellent scumming behavior, while maintaining a satisfactory printing durability. There is also provided a method of lithographic printing that uses this lithographic printing plate precursor. The lithographic printing plate precursor comprises an image recording layer having (A) a nonionic polymerization initiator that contains at least two cyclic imide structures, and (B) a compound that has at least one addition-polymerizable ethylenically unsaturated bond.
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 process for making a lithographic printing plate that includes in sequence an exposure step of imagewise exposing by means of an infrared laser a lithographic printing plate precursor that has provided above a support a positive-working recording layer including (Component A) a (meth)acrylonitrile-derived monomer unit- and styrene-derived monomer unit-containing copolymer, (Component B) a water-insoluble and alkali-soluble resin, and (Component C) an infrared absorbing agent and a development step of developing, using an aqueous alkali solution including a betaine-based surfactant or a nonionic surfactant, the aqueous alkali solution having a pH of 8.5 to 10.8, by removing an exposed area of the positive-working recording layer whose solubility in aqueous alkali solution has been increased by the exposure. There is also provided a lithographic printing plate made by the process for making a lithographic printing plate.