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Lithographic aluminum offset printing plate made according to the DTR-process

US5068165A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateJul 16, 1990
Grant dateNov 26, 1991
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Expiry dateJul 16, 2010

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  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG03F7/07
  • WIPO fieldOptics
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

Method for making lithographic aluminium offset printing plates according to the DTR-process by photo-exposing a photosensitive monosheet layer assemblage comprising a hydrophilic aluminium foil, a water-swellable intermediate layer comprising a non-protenic hydrophilic film-forming polymer, and a silver halide emulsion layer, applying an aqueous alkaline solution thereto in the presence of a developing agent and a silver halide solvent, allowing to reduce the photo-exposed silver halide, allowing the unreduced silver halide or complexes thereof to diffuse to said aluminium foil to form a silver image thereon, and separating said emulsion layer and said intermediate layer from the image aluminium foil. The invention also relates to the photosensitive monosheet layer assemblage used for making such printing plates.

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