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Single layer direct write lithographic printing plates

US6014930A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateJun 11, 1998
Grant dateJan 18, 2000
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Expiry dateJun 11, 2018

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
  • CPC primaryB41C1/1041
  • WIPO fieldTextile and paper machines
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

A lithographic printing plate made by coating a support web with a coextensive hydrophilic layer of a crosslinked polymeric matrix containing a member of the group consisting of colloids of beryllium, magnesium, aluminum, silicon, gadolinium, germanium, arsenic, indium, tin, antimony, tellurium, lead, bismuth and the transition metal oxides, along with a photothermal conversion material capable of accepting ink when exposed to high intensity radiation.

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