Water-less lithographic raw plate

• US 5,811,210 A
• Filed: 09/11/1995
• Issued: 09/22/1998
• Est. Priority Date: 10/01/1993
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Toray Industries Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Toray Industries Incorporated
• Inventors: Tsuda, Mikio, Ikeda, Norimasa, Kawamura, Ken
• Primary Examiner(s): Young, Christopher G.
• Application Number:
  US08/446,744
• Time in Patent Office: 1,107 Days
• Field of Search: 430/162, 430/166, 430/272.1, 430/273.1, 430/303, 430/17
• US Class Current: 430/17
• CPC Class Codes: G03F 7/0752 in non photosensitive layers or as additives, e.g. for dry lithography

Abstract

The present invention relates to a water-less lithographic raw plate, in which a photosensitive layer and a silicone rubber layer are laminated in this order on a substrate, comprising: the peel bonding strength between the photosensitive layer and the silicone rubber layer being 5 to 100 g/cm, and the initial elastic modulus of the photosensitive layer after completion of exposure being 5 to 75 kgf/mm2. In the present invention, attention is paid to the peel bonding strength between the photosensitive layer and the silicone rubber layer before exposure, and it is intensified, while the photosensitive layer after completion of exposure is kept lower in elastic modulus, to provide a water-less lithographic printing plate excellent in printing durability and image reproducibility. Therefore, the water-less lithographic printing plate obtained is suitable for commercial web offset printing and newspaper web offset printing.

Claims

1. A water-less lithographic raw plate comprising:

a photosensitive layer and a silicone rubber layer which are laminated in this order onto a substrate,

wherein the components of which said photosensitive layer and said silicone rubber layer are composed are laminated onto said substrate under production conditions selected to produce a peel bonding strength between the photosensitive layer and the silicone rubber layer between about 5 to 100 g/cm, and an initial elastic modulus of the photosensitive layer after completion of exposure between about 5 to 75 kgf/mm².

2. The water-less lithographic raw plate of claim 1, wherein the rupture elongation of the photosensitive layer after completion of exposure is 100% or more.

3. The water-less lithographic raw plate of claim 1, wherein the 50% stress of the photosensitive layer after completion of exposure is 0.8 to 3.8 kgf/mm2.

4. The water-less lithographic raw plate of claim 1, wherein the silicone rubber layer is formed by heating to set a condensation reaction crosslinkable silicone gum composition.

5. The water-less lithographic raw plate of claim 1, wherein the silicone rubber layer is formed by heating to set an addition reaction crosslinkable silicone gum composition.

6. The water-less lithographic raw plate of claim 1, wherein the photosensitive layer contains an ethylenic unsaturated compound with two or more hydroxyl groups.

7. The water-less lithographic raw plate of claim 1, wherein the photosensitive layer contains a polyurethane resin.

8. The water-less lithographic raw plate of claim 1, wherein the photosensitive layer contains an ethylenic unsaturated compound with an organic silyl group.

9. The water-less lithographic printing plate, obtained by selectively exposing and developing the water-less lithographic raw plate stated in any of claims 1 through 8.