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Method for producing flexographic printing forms by thermal development

US8007984B2 · kind B2 · utility

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15Claims

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Assignee

XSYS Print Solutions Deutschland, GmbH · DE

Inventors

Margit Teltschik · Karlstadt, DE
Armin Becker · Frankenthal (Pfalz), DE
Uwe Stebani · Monsheim, DE
Jens Schadebrodt · Mainz, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Nov 11, 2004
Grant date	Aug 30, 2011
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Oct 26, 2026

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG03F7/36
WIPO fieldOptics
WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

Flexographic printing plates are produced by thermal development by a process in which an imagewise exposed flexographic printing element is developed by heating and removing the softened, unpolymerized parts of the relief-forming layer, the flexographic printing element containing a styrene/butadiene block copolymer as a mixture with a plasticizer, and the proportion of butadiene which is present in 1,2-linked form being from 15 to 50% by weight, based on the block copolymer.

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