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Method for making lithographic printing plate

US5916734A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateNov 4, 1997
Grant dateJun 29, 1999
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Expiry dateNov 4, 2017

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
  • CPC primaryY10S430/165
  • WIPO fieldTextile and paper machines
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

Provided is a method for making a lithographic printing plate according to which the area of a silver thin film of non-image area of a lithographic printing plate material comprising a support, at least a hydrophilic layer on the support and a silver thin film on the hydrophilic layer is exposed by laser beams to be fused and/or decomposed by heat transformed from laser energy thereby to disclose the hydrophilic layer.

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