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Process for the production of lithographic printing plates

US6187380A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateDec 22, 1997
Grant dateFeb 13, 2001
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Expiry dateDec 22, 2017

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
  • CPC primaryB41C1/1066
  • WIPO fieldTextile and paper machines
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

A presensitized printing plate intermediate having an image mask on a UV radiation transparent removable coating layer; and a printing plate produced directly by reactants which polymerize alone or in combination with other reactants precoated on the plate substrate to form a printable hard resin image. A method of digitally forming an image on said printing plate intermediate.

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