Abstract:
The present invention is a driograhic imaging method which employs an ink comprised of an organic material which is convertible from a state of high viscosity to a state of low viscosity by exposure to high energy radiation. The ink is applied to an inking roller in its initial state of high viscosity and exposed to activating radiation in an imagewise manner to convert the material to a state of low viscosity and thereby reduce the viscosity of the ink in a configuration corresponding to the pattern of radiation. Contacting the irradiated inking roller with a receiving member results in transfer of the ink in imagewise configuration from the inking roller to the receiving member.
Abstract:
A simple machine for making multiple printed copies from a zinc oxide preliminary copy, including a glass cylinder and a transport drum which presses against the cylinder. The machine has a stack holder which is initially filled with a stack of paper sheets and a zinc oxide preliminary copy on top of the paper sheets. Sheet feeding apparatus first moves the preliminary copy onto the transport drum so it moves between the drum and glass cylinder to heat the dark areas on the preliminary copy which represent the image, so that these image regions are transferred to the glass cylinder. Inking rollers then apply ink to the image areas on the cylinder while successive sheets of paper to be printed upon are fed between the roller and glass cylinder.
Abstract:
A planographic printing system and method. The planographic printing system comprises an ink supply device, a planographic printing plate and a printing stock, the planographic printing plate gains ink from the ink supply device, so as to transfer graphic-text information from the planographic printing plate to surface of the printing stock, the planographic 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 may achieve a graphic-text area which is affinity to water-based printing ink and a blank area which is repulsion to water-based printing ink on the surface of the printing plate by using water-based printing ink only without water or fountain solution.
Abstract:
A false positive testing device (FPTD) that contains a coating based on a one hundred percent solids varnish and a transparent reagent, that uses oxidative free radical polymerization as a drying mechanism, and that can be transferred to various types of porous substrates by conventional lithographic offset printing and/or dry offset printing. The substrates with the FPTD can be verified by using common currency detection protocols, such as testing with ultraviolet lights and/or counterfeit detection iodine based pen/pad stamps.
Abstract:
A non-ablative negative-working imageable element has first and second polymeric layers under a crosslinked silicone rubber layer. These elements can be used in a simple method to provide lithographic printing plates useful for waterless printing (no fountain solution). Processing after imaging is relatively simple using either water or an aqueous solution containing very little organic solvent to remove the imaged regions. The crosslinked silicone rubber layer is ink-repelling and only the first layer that is closest to the substrate contains an infrared radiation absorbing compound to provide thermal sensitivity.
Abstract:
A false positive testing device (FPTD) that contains a coating based on a one hundred percent solids varnish and a transparent reagent, that uses oxidative free radical polymerization as a drying mechanism, and that can be transferred to various types of porous substrates by conventional lithographic offset printing and/or dry offset printing. The substrates with the FPTD can be verified by using common currency detection protocols, such as testing with ultraviolet lights and/or counterfeit detection iodine based pen/pad stamps.
Abstract:
A printing plate including a printing plate member, an easily deformable elastic layer laminated on the printing plate member, a surface layer having a higher elasticity than that of the elastic layer, laminated on the elastic layer, and a printing surface layer formed on the surface layer. The printing surface layer has an image area having an affinity with an ink and a non-image area having an ink repellancy.
Abstract:
A method of non-overlap halftone-dot printing of a colored original on the outer surface of a cylindrical container is done by dry off-set printing. A colored original is color-separated into three primary colors, i.e., cyan, magenta and yellow, change-to-halftone is effected to give an effect of contact screening with the same angle for the individual separated primary colors, and one pixel of print is expressed by three colors at most, i.e., one of the three primary colors, one of three secondary colors, i.e., cyan-magenta, magenta-yellow and yellow-cyan blend colors, and black (tertiary color).