Method of treating lithographic printing plates with 2-propoxyethanol
US4381340A · kind A · utility
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| Filing date | Aug 31, 1981 |
| Grant date | Apr 26, 1983 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Aug 31, 2001 |
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- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG03F7/32
- WIPO fieldOptics
- WIPO sectorInstruments
Abstract
A developer suitable for machine and hand processing may now be made which accomplishes the aforementioned objects which is an aqueous solution comprising 2-propoxyethanol as a detackifying agent, an adjuvant solvent, a nonionic surfactant with a hydrophile-lipophile balance over about 17, and an inorganic salt. A developer/finisher may be prepared by adding thereto a water-soluble polymeric film former which is preferably polyvinyl pyrrolidone. A suspending agent, e.g. polyethylene glycol, is added to hand processing solutions.
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