Abstract:
A lithographic printing plate precursor which is capable of undergoing on-press development by supplying at least one of printing ink and dampening water and includes a support and an image-recording layer, wherein the image-recording layer contains at least one of compounds represented by the formulae (1) to (3) as defined herein.
Abstract:
A device as well as method for treating without developing an imagewise exposed lithographic printing plate is disclosed. The device comprises a structure for providing a treating solution to the exposed plate. The exposed plate comprises on a substrate a photosensitive layer having hardened areas and non-hardened areas (for negative plate) or solubilized areas and non-solubilized areas (for positive plate). The non-hardened or solubilized areas of said photosensitive layer is removable with ink and/or fountain solution on a lithographic press. The treatment of the imagewise exposed plate allows one or more enhanced properties for the plate before on-press development, such as improved white light stability, enhanced or formation of visible image, improved hydrophilicity, or improved on-press developability.
Abstract:
A curable composition in which polymerization inhibition due to oxygen is suppressed and which may be cured with high sensitivity by exposure to laser light or the like is provided. The curable composition includes: a polymerizable compound having an ethylenically unsaturated bond; a binder; a radical polymerization initiator; and at least one specific amine compound. Also provided is an image forming material and a negative-working planographic printing plate precursor including the curable composition.
Abstract:
To provide a process for making a lithographic printing plate that exhibits safety, and excellent developability and processing capacity in single solution processing using a processing solution having a pH in a weakly alkaline region, and preferably a pH of 8.5 to 10.5. A process for making a lithographic printing plate, the process including a preparation step of preparing a lithographic printing plate precursor having above a hydrophilic support an image-forming layer that contains an infrared-absorbing agent, a polymerization initiator, an ethylenically unsaturated compound, and a binder polymer, an exposure step of imagewise exposing the lithographic printing plate precursor, and a processing step of processing the imagewise exposed lithographic printing plate precursor using a processing solution containing carbonate ion, bicarbonate ion, and a water-soluble polymer compound.
Abstract:
A lithographic printing plate precursor includes an aluminum support subjected to a surface roughening treatment, and an image-recording layer, the image-recording layer contains an infrared absorbing agent, a radical polymerization initiator, a radical polymerizable compound and an inorganic particle which has, on a surface of the inorganic particle, an acrylic polymer as a graft chain and an unexposed area of the image-recording layer is capable of being removed with at least one of oily ink and dampening water.
Abstract:
(1) A packaged body of lithographic printing plate precursors, wherein an image-recording layer or a protective layer of the outermost surface layer contains an inorganic layered compound. (2) A lithographic printing plate precursor having a protective layer containing an inorganic layered compound, and an image-recording layer containing a binder polymer. (3) A lithographic printing plate precursor having a protective layer containing an inorganic layered compound, and an image-recording layer containing an infrared absorber and an iodonium compound.
Abstract:
A lithographic printing plate precursor comprising a support and an image-recording layer containing at least one infrared absorbing agent of a cyanine dye in which a HOMO energy level of each of substituents present on both terminal nitrogen atoms is −10.0 eV or higher.
Abstract:
A lithographic printing plate precursor includes: a support; and a photosensitive layer containing (A) an initiator compound, (B) a polymerizable compound and (C) a binder, wherein the photosensitive layer or other layer in contact with the support contains as (D) a component different from the component (C), a copolymer containing (a1) a repeating unit having at least one ethylenically unsaturated bond introduced through an ion pair and (a2) a repeating unit having at least one functional group capable of interacting with a surface of the support.
Abstract:
A lithographic printing plate precursor includes an aluminum support subjected to a roughening treatment and an image-recording layer containing an infrared absorbing agent, a radical polymerization initiator, a radical polymerizable monomer, a compound having two or more mercapto group-containing groups per molecule and a polymer particle containing a polyalkylene oxide segment.
Abstract:
A method of deactivating and on-press developing an exposed lithographic printing plate is disclosed. The plate comprises on a substrate a photosensitive layer developable with ink and/or fountain solution and capable of hardening upon exposure to a radiation. The plate is exposed with the radiation, deactivated, and then on-press developed with ink and/or fountain solution. The deactivation of the exposed plate allows the handling of the plate under regular office light or any other light without causing the hardening of the non-exposed areas of the photosensitive layer.