Abstract:
The present invention provides a planographic printing plate precursor including a support and a positive recording layer formed on the support and containing: (A) a polymer having a structural unit represented by the following general formula (1), (B) a photo-thermal converting agent, and (C) an amino compound having a methylol group or an alkoxymethyl group; and a positive recording layer whose solubility in an alkaline developer is improved by exposure to light or by heating. In general formula (1), R1 represents an alkyl group or a cyclic group, x represents 0 or 1, and A represents a bivalent bonding group. According to the invention, a positive planographic printing plate precursor for use with infrared lasers having excellent chemical resistance and wide image development latitude can be obtained.
Abstract:
The present invention provides a polymerizable composition comprising (A) a compound represented by the following formula (I), (B) an infrared absorbent, and (C) a compound having at least one addition-polymerizable ethylenically unsaturated bond, and a negative planographic printing plate precursor having a recording layer containing the polymerizable composition. In the formula (I), R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, and R6 each independently represent a hydrogen atom or a monovalent organic group; and X− represents an anion.
Abstract:
A negative-working lithographic printing plate precursor is disclosed comprising on a support having a hydrophilic surface or which is provided with a hydrophilic layer, a coating comprising an infrared absorbing agent, a first layer comprising an aqueous dispersion comprising hydrophobic thermoplastic polymer particles and a first hydrophobic binder, and a second layer located between said first layer and said support which comprises a second hydrophobic binder, characterized in that said first hydrophobic binder is a phenolic resin and said second hydrophobic binder is a polymer comprising at least one sulphonamide group.
Abstract:
A method of light exposure recording on a planographic printing plate, wherein the planographic printing plate includes a support and an image recording layer provided on the support, the image recording layer includes a radical polymerization initiator, the method comprising: irradiating the image recording layer with a predetermined amount of a first light, whereby the radical initiator generates a radical, the radical is quenched by free oxygen in the image recording layer, so that free oxygen in the image recording layer is exhausted and disappears from the image recording layer and that the image recording layer is supersensitized; and then rradiating the image recording layer with a second light as a recording light modulated on the basis of image information, so as to form a latent image corresponding to the image information on the image recording layer. Also provided is an apparatus for practicing the invention.
Abstract:
A lithographic printing plate precursor comprising an aluminum substrate, an image-recording layer and a hydrophilic film, the aluminum substrate being subjected to an electrochemical surface-roughening treatment in an aqueous solution comprising hydrochloric acid and provided with the hydrophilic film having a heat conductivity of 0.05 to 0.5 W/mK and/or at least one of a density of 1,000 to 3,200 kg/m3 and a porosity of 20 to 70%; and a lithographic printing plate precursor comprising an aluminum substrate, an image-recording layer and a hydrophilic film, the aluminum substrate having a surface-roughened shape comprising a small pit wherein an average opening size of the small pit is 0.01 to 3 μm and a ratio of an average depth of the small pit to the average opening size is 0.1 to 0.5, and being provided with the hydrophilic film having a heat conductivity of 0.05 to 0.5 W/mK and/or at least one of a density of 1,000 to 3,200 kg/m3 and a porosity of 20 to 70%.
Abstract translation:包括铝基板,图像记录层和亲水膜的平版印刷版原版,所述铝基板在包含盐酸的水溶液中进行电化学表面粗糙化处理,并提供具有导热性的亲水膜 0.05〜0.5W / mK和/或密度为1000〜3200kg / m 3的孔隙率和20〜70%的孔隙率中的至少一种。 以及包含铝基板,图像记录层和亲水膜的平版印刷版原版,所述铝基板具有包括小坑的表面粗糙化形状,其中小坑的平均开口尺寸为0.01〜3μm, 小坑的平均深度与平均开口尺寸的比例为0.1〜0.5,并且具有导热率为0.05〜0.5W / m·K的亲水性膜和/或密度为1000〜3,200 kg / m 3,孔隙率为20〜70%。
Abstract:
A stack of lithographic printing plate precursors, which comprises: at least one lithographic printing plate precursor comprising: an aluminum support having a roughened surface; and an image recording layer comprising (A) an infrared absorber, (B) a polymerization initiator and (C) a polymerizable compound, wherein the image recording layer is capable of being removed with at least one of a printing ink and a fountain solution; and an interleaving sheet interposed between a first one and a second one of said at least one lithographic printing plate precursor, wherein said at least one lithographic printing plate precursor has a dynamic friction coefficient between an outermost surface of said at least one lithographic printing plate precursor and the interleaving sheet of 0.25 to 0.70.
Abstract:
The positive planographic printing plate precursor of the present invention is a precursor comprising (I) a positive recording layer including a water-insoluble and alkali-soluble polymer compound and a light to heat converting agent, on a support having a hydrophilic surface in which a hydrophilic graft polymer chain is present. The precursor may further comprise (II) a lower layer including a water-insoluble and alkali-soluble polymer compound between the recording layer and the support.
Abstract:
A positive-working printing plate precursor for wet lithographic printing is disclosed which comprises a support having a hydrophilic surface and a coating comprising a first layer closest to the support, said first layer containing an oleophilic phenolic resin soluble in an aqueous alkaline developer, and a second layer containing an amphyphilic polymer, wherein (c) the second layer is capable of preventing the aqueous alkaline developer from penetrating into the first layer to an extent that substantially no dissolution of unexposed coating occurs upon immersion in the aqueous alkaline developer during a time period t2; (d) and wherein said capability of the second layer of preventing the aqueous alkaline developer from penetrating into the first layer is reduced upon exposure to heat or light to an extent that substantially complete dissolution of exposed coating occurs upon immersion in the aqueous alkaline developer during a time period t1; wherein t2>t1 and t2−t1 is at least 10 seconds; and wherein the amphyphilic polymer is a block- or graft-copolymer comprising (i) a poly(alkylene oxide) block and (ii) a block comprising siloxane and/or perfluorohydrocarbon units.
Abstract translation:公开了用于湿平版印刷的正性印刷版前体,其包含具有亲水表面的载体和包含最靠近载体的第一层的涂层,所述第一层含有可溶于碱性显影液的亲油酚醛树脂,和 第二层含有两亲性聚合物,其中(c)第二层能够防止水性碱性显影剂渗透到第一层中,使得在一段时间内浸入含水碱性显影剂中基本上不会溶解未曝光的涂层 t 2 2; (d),并且其中防止水性碱性显影剂渗透到第一层中的第二层的所述能力在暴露于热或光时减少到在浸入含水碱性显影剂中时基本上完全溶解暴露涂层的程度 时间段t 1< 1>; 其中t 2 2和t 2 -T 1 H 1至少为10秒; 并且其中所述无亲性聚合物是包含(i)聚(环氧烷)嵌段和(ii)包含硅氧烷和/或全氟烃单元的嵌段的嵌段或接枝共聚物。
Abstract:
The present invention provides a planographic printing plate precursor including a support, and a recording layer which is formed on the support and includes a water-insoluble and alkali-soluble resin having active hydrogen in a main chain thereof and an infrared absorbent, the solubility of the recording layer in an aqueous alkaline solution being increased by exposure to light; and a planographic printing plate precursor including a support, and a recording layer formed on the support, wherein the recording layer includes a lower layer which is formed on the support and includes a water-insoluble and alkali-soluble resin having active hydrogen in a main chain thereof, and an upper layer which is formed on the lower layer and includes a water-insoluble and alkali-soluble resin and a development inhibitor, the solubility of the upper layer in an aqueous alkaline solution being increased by exposure to light, and at least one of the lower layer and the upper layer of the recording layer includes an infrared absorbent. According to the invention, there is provided is a positive planographic printing plate precursor which can provide a printing plate directly from scanning exposure based on digital signals and is excellent in printing durability and chemical resistance.
Abstract:
An image recording material of the present invention comprises an anodized aluminum support, an intermediate layer containing a polymer having a carboxylic acid group in a side chain thereof and formed on the aluminum support, and a photosensitive layer containing at least 50% by weight or more of novolak type phenol resin and a photothermal conversion agent and recordable by IR laser beam. A planographic printing plate excellent in printing durability can be obtained by subjecting the image recording material imagewise to IR laser exposure treatment and to development treatment, and then heating the image recording material at 150 to 300° C.