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Method for making a lithographic plate

US7829261B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

Kodak Graphic Communications GmbH · DE

Inventors

Bernd Strehmel · Berlin, DE
Harald Baumann · Tuttlingen, DE
Ulrich Fiebag · Würzburg, DE
Tanja Ebhardt · Osterode, DE
Detlef Pietsch · Badenhausen, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Aug 23, 2005
Grant date	Nov 9, 2010
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Jun 16, 2026

Classification

Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
CPC primaryB41N3/08
WIPO fieldTextile and paper machines
WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

Process for the posttreatment of an imaged lithographic printing plate comprising (a) providing a lithographic printing plate comprising image areas and non-image areas on a lithographic substrate; (b) bringing the lithographic printing plate of step (a) into contact with a solution comprising a hydrophilic polymer comprising structural units derived from the following compounds: (i) a compound comprising both polyalkylene oxide chains and at least one structural unit which is free-radical polymerizable, and (ii) a monomer capable of copolymerizing with the free-radical polymerizable structural unit of (i) and furthermore comprising at least one acidic functional group with pKs<5, wherein the acidic functional group can be present as a free acid group or in the form of a salt; (c) drying.

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