Preparation of photopolymeric letterpress printing plates

US6194125A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Basf Lacke & Farben Aktiengesellschaft · DE

Inventors

• Friedrich Goffing · Schifferstadt, DE
• Thomas Loerzer · Bischofswerda, DE
• Hartmut Sandig · Bischofswerda, DE
• Markus Tonnessen · Mutterstadt, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 16, 1999
• Grant date: Feb 27, 2001
• Expiry date: Jun 16, 2019

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10S430/145
• WIPO field: Optics
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

Photopolymeric letterpress printing plates which are to be developed with water or water/alcohol mixtures after imagewise exposure and have, arranged one on top of the other on a dimensionally stable substrate, a layer (A) which may be bonded to the dimensionally stable substrate by an adhesion-promoting layer and is crosslinkable by actinic radiation, a layer (B) which is sensitive to IR radiation and, if required, a parting layer arranged between layer (A) and layer (B), and a peelable protective film applied to the layer (B), are produced by a process in which the layer (A) contains a mixture of at least one polymeric binder which is soluble or dispersible in water or water/alcohol mixtures, copolymerizable ethylenically unsaturated organic compounds which are compatible with the polymeric binder and a photoinitiator, the layer (B) sensitive to IR radiation has an optical density .gtoreq.2.5 in the actinic range and contains a film-forming polymeric binder which is soluble or dispersible in water or water/alcohol mixtures and a substance which is finely distributed in this binder and absorbs IR radiation, and the layer (B) sensitive to IR radiation is structured by laser ablatio…