EP0520791A1 - Verfahren zur Herstellung von Flachdruckplatten - Google Patents

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EP0520791A1
EP0520791A1 EP92305857A EP92305857A EP0520791A1 EP 0520791 A1 EP0520791 A1 EP 0520791A1 EP 92305857 A EP92305857 A EP 92305857A EP 92305857 A EP92305857 A EP 92305857A EP 0520791 A1 EP0520791 A1 EP 0520791A1
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  • the present invention relates to a method for manufacturing planographic printing plates. More particularly, the present invention relates to a method for manufacturing planographic printing plates free from the problem caused by side etching in the etching process, which arises in plate making comprising the steps of forming toner images, through the electrophotographic process, on a planographic printing plate comprising a conductive support and a photoconductive layer provided thereon and then etching to selectively remove nonimage portions of the photoconductive layer.
  • a method for manufacturing a planographic printing plate from a light-sensitive planographic printing plate comprised of a metal support such as an aluminum plate and a photoconductive light-sensitive layer coated thereon, by steps of forming toner images on the photoconductive layer through the electrophotographic process and removing the nonimage portion in the subsequent etching process using an etchant which is an aqueous alkaline solution.
  • a printing plate prepared by coating a photoconductive light-sensitive layer comprised usually of a resin, such as a phenol resin, dispersing in it an organic pigment type photosemiconductor, particularly a photoconductive light-sensitive layer comprised of a novolac resin dispersing in it copper-phthalocyanine, on a conductive metal support.
  • a resin such as a phenol resin
  • the removal of the nonimage portion is carried out by dissolving it out with an alkaline etchant through one of various method common in principle to conventional developing methods for processing the so-called PS plates or waterless planographic printing plates which require a film original.
  • a trouble liable to arise in the etching process is responsible for the so-called side etching.
  • nonimage portions of a photoconductive layer are removed in the etching process using a toner image formed on the photoconductive layer as a resist.
  • the etchant is liable to penetrate from edges of the toner image into the photoconductive layer located under the toner image and remove the edges eventually; therefore, the ink receiving portion corresponding to the image portion of prints becomes smaller than the toner image, and lines of an image printed using such a planographic printing plate become thin.
  • halftone reproducibility is lowered and thereby color reproduction becomes liable to cause troubles.
  • a first object of the invention is to provide an improved method for manufacturing planographic printing plates in the electrophotographic mode which can solve the problem of side etching
  • a second object of the invention is to provide an improved method for manufacturing planographic printing plates in the electrophotographic mode which works effectively in expanding the elution latitude.
  • the method for manufacturing a planographic printing plate of the invention is characterized in (1) that a toner image is formed in a size larger than that of an original image, in a method for manufacturing a planographic printing plate comprising the steps of forming a toner image in the electrophotographic mode on a light-sensitive planographic printing plate having an electrically conductive support and a photoconductive layer provided thereon, and then removing nonimage portions of the photoconductive layer on which a toner image is not formed, or in (2) that the toner removing process is carried out after the nonimage portion of the photoconductive layer is removed.
  • the present invention adopts a technique to form a toner image in a size larger than that of the original image, at the time of forming the toner image on a light-sensitive planographic printing plate.
  • the toner image is formed in an enlarged size so as to have at least one enlarged portion around the edge of the original image; that is, the toner image is fattened at least in one direction.
  • the toner image is composed of characters, lines or halftones, it is not necessary to enlarge or fatten the whole edge of the toner image in all directions. For example, the enlargement or fattening only in a certain direction can satisfactorily achieve the object of the invention.
  • the enlargement is not made in all directions for fear of damaging the halftone.
  • only the shape of the halftone is changed to make the area of the toner image larger than that of the halftone (a square, for example) of the original image.
  • the original image used here means an artwork original used in an ordinary printing process, an image formed on an original of positive or negative silver halide photographic film or paper, a digital image of computer controlled data and an image displayed on CRT.
  • An original image of a digital image includes an original font data of a character, a data of a line read by a scanner, a halftone image which is read by a scanner and output by a dot-generator, and an image converted properly according to a printing matter.
  • various techniques are used in the aspects of medium on which original images are formed and means to form toner images. Examples thereof include (1) control of the developing process such as adjustment of bias potential or processing time, (2) dry etching or image treatment on original films in contact exposure of original films, (3) adjustment of exposure and image treatment on originals in exposure with a camera, and (4) image processing such as adjustment in a scanning direction or in a sub-scanning direction, adjustment of output of halftone data converted from original images with a look-up table (hereinafter referred to as LUT), as well as increase in beam diameter or in quantity of light in reversal processing, in the case of digital images using a laser or a LED.
  • LUT look-up table
  • any of the above techniques can be adopted, but the biggest merit of manufacturing a planographic printing plate through the electrophotographic process lies in that it enables the so-called computer to plate process, in which digital images can be directly recorded on the printing plate.
  • an electrophotographic latent image be subjected to enlarging treatment.
  • the enlarging treatment can be carried out by a method which processes and converts digital information of an image and then outputs it, or by a method which does not convert such digital information till it is converted with an optical system at the stage of output. Examples of the former method include the following methods and combinations thereof, but use of other methods is not excluded.
  • Fig. 1 Examples of the enlargement by the above methods(1) and (2) are shown in Fig. 1.
  • the area filled with right-hand oblique lines means an original image
  • that filled with left-hand oblique lines shows the enlargement by one dot in main scanning direction due to (1) and that by one dot in the sub-scanning direction due to (2).
  • a method comprising the steps of outputting an image on a monochromatic photographic film or paper by use of image data converted by the above method and then reading the image with such an image reading device as is used in a facsimile.
  • Fig. 2 shows a procedure to enlarge a shadow portion: when the enlargement cannot be carried out at any portion because the space between halftones in the shadow portion is only one scanning line and completely lost by the enlargement, a portion of the image is made nonimage portion as shown in (B).
  • the above digital image processing for enlarging a toner image can be applied to either the normal development in which toners are adhered to unexposed portions or the reversal development in which toners are adhered to exposed portions.
  • a toner image can be enlarged by raising the luminous intensity or expanding the beam diameter of a laser or a LED.
  • the enlargement of a toner image can also be carried out by controlling the exposing condition in contact exposure of a positive or negative film original or in projection exposure from an artwork original.
  • An enlarged image is formed on a positive film by increasing the exposure or employing a spacer in the stage of making a positive film through contact exposure of a negative film.
  • a positive film having an enlarged image can be prepared by drawing an image subjected to enlargement processing with a plotter. This technique can be practiced by drawing an enlarged image on a negative film and preparing a positive film from that.
  • An enlarged latent image can be obtained by simply increasing the exposure or employing a spacer.
  • An enlarged image is formed on a positive photographic paper in the same procedure as in (1).
  • An enlarged image is formed in a procedure to increase the exposure or the like.
  • a toner image can also be enlarged by adjusting the bias potential in a processed portion, the space between processing electrodes or the processing time, or adjusting the characteristics of a developer or a photoconductive layer, or by adhering toners through pressing or fusing in the toner fixing process.
  • the amount of side etching depends on the number of screen lines and the halftone reproducing range desired in a print, it is equal to the sum of minimum side etching amount 5 corresponding to the thickness of photoconductive layer 2 and intended side etching amount 6, as illustrated in Fig. 3.
  • Minimum side etching amount 5 is equal to the thickness of photoconductive layer 2, and a side etching amount less than this thickness makes it difficult to remove nonimage portions of the photoconductive layer and thereby produces undesirable results.
  • the thickness of the photoconductive layer is usually 0.5 to 30 ⁇ . To maintain a proper resolution after etching, the thickness of this photoconductive layer is not more than 10 ⁇ , and to maintain a proper printing durability and sensitivity, the thickness is preferably not less than 1 ⁇ . To increase the amount of side etching, there can be adopted a means to raise the activity of an etchant or to lengthen the etching time.
  • a resist image composed of a photoconductive layer, which functions as an ink receiving layer is smaller than original image 4. Therefore, the side etching is deliberately allowed to progress exceeding minimum side etching amount 5 (corresponding to the thickness of photoconductive layer 2) usually by 0 to 30 ⁇ , preferably by 5 to 15 ⁇ , in order to obtain intended side etching amount 6. Setting the intended side etching amount at such a value has effects on preventing adhesion of residual components of the photoconductive layer as well as absorbing the fluctuation in etchant activity.
  • the reason for setting a resist image smaller than an original image 4 lies in that dot gains in printing are taken into consideration. Accordingly, a toner image and a side etching amount are adjusted so as to give intended side etching amount 6 by allowing the side etching to proceed across the periphery of original image 4 within a range of 0 to 20, preferably 5 to 10 ⁇ .
  • the enlargement of a toner image is carried out in an amount within the range of 0.5 to 40 ⁇ m, and preferably 1 to 15 ⁇ m.
  • Fig. 4 showing halftone reproducibility
  • the halftone dot reproducing curve is given by B when the reproducibility is exactly corresponding to the halftone dot density of an original image.
  • the toner image is set to give curve A which is obtained by adding dot gains to curve B
  • the side etching amount is set to give a halftone reproducibility of curve C to a resist image consisting of a photoconductive layer in the etching process; therefore, dot gain occurs in printing and thereby the printed image is reproduced to give curve B.
  • the reproducibility contained in the present invention may be any one as long as it meets the requirement of A>B (straight line) in Fig. 4 and, therefore, C is allowed to coincide with B.
  • the reproduction curves of halftone dot, A and C vary depending upon screen line number.
  • the halftone dots of 5%, 50% and 95% in an original image B are preferably converted to 6 to 20%, 55 to 75% and 96 to 99.9% in A, respectively, and 2 to 4%, 35 to 45% and 90 to 94% in C, respectively.
  • Planographic printing plates to which the present invention is applied have a photoconductive layer containing, as an organic photoconductor, a photoconductive pigment and/or a photoconductive material having a solvent capable of completely dissolving the material itself (a soluble photoconductor) mixed in a binder resin.
  • the effect of the invention can be best demonstrated in planographic printing plates having a photoconductive layer using an organic photoconductor of pigment type.
  • organic photoconductive pigment include those perylene pigments, quinacridone pigments, bisbenzimidazole pigments, aromatic polycondensed ring compounds, monoazo pigments, disazo pigments, trisazo pigments, metallic or nonmetallic phthalocyanine pigments and zinc oxide which are described in Japanese Pat. Exam. Pub. Nos.
  • binder resin for the photoconductive layer of light-sensitive planographic printing plates As binder resin for the photoconductive layer of light-sensitive planographic printing plates according to the invention, a high molecular compound soluble or dispersible in the above etchant is preferred.
  • Usable binder resins are, for examples, copolymers of an acrylate, a methacrylate, styrene or vinyl acetate and a monomer containing a carboxyl group or an acid anhydride group, such as acrylic acid, methacrylic acid, itaconic acid, crotonic acid, maleic acid, maleic anhydride or fumaric acid.
  • Typical examples thereof include styrene/maleic anhydride copolymers, styrene/monoalkyl maleate copolymers, methacrylic acid/methacrylate copolymers, styrene/methacrylic acid/methacrylate copolymers, acrylic acid/methacrylate copolymers, styrene/acrylic acid/methacrylate copolymers, vinyl acetate/crotonic acid copolymers and vinyl acetate/crotonic acid/methacrylate copolymers.
  • Copolymers containing units derived from monomers having an acid anhydride group or a carboxyl group as a copolymer component as well as phenol resins are advantageously used, because these can provide a photoconductive layer with a high charge holding property when used in a photoreceptor for electrophotographic process.
  • copolymers containing units derived from monomers having an acid anhydride group as a copolymer component are preferred.
  • Half esters of these copolymers can also be favorably used.
  • copolymers containing monomers having a carboxyl group as a copolymer component preferred ones are binary or more multiple copolymers of acrylic acid or methacrylic acid and alkyl esters, aryl esters or aralkyl esters of acrylic acid or methacrylic acid.
  • copolymers of vinyl acetate and crotonic acid as well as terpolymers of vinyl acetate, vinyl ester of a carboxylic acid having 2 to 18 carbon atoms and crotonic acid are also preferable examples.
  • the phenol resins the preferred are novolac resins prepared by allowing phenol, o-cresol, m-cresol or p-cresol to react with formaldehyde or acetaldehyde under acid conditions. These binder resins may be used singly or in combination of two or more types.
  • Typical examples of the above phenol resin include those prepared by condensing at least one substituted phenol selected from phenol, o-cresol, m-cresol, p-cresol, ethylphenol, isopropylphenol, t-butylphenol, t-amylphenol, hexylphenol, t-octylphenol, cyclohexylphenol, 3-methyl-4-chloro-6-t-butylphenol, isopropylcresol, t-butylcresol, t-amylcresol, hexylcresol, t-octylcresol and cyclohexyl cresol with an aliphatic or aromatic aldehyde such as formaldehyde, acetaldehyde, acrolein, crotonaldehyde or furfural.
  • polyhydroxyphenyl resins prepared by polycondensation of pyrogallol or resorcinol and ace
  • phenol resins preferred ones are novolac type phenol resins prepared by condensing at least one of phenol, o-cresol, m-cresol and p-cresol with formaldehyde or acetaldehyde under acid conditions.
  • the average molecular weight of these phenol resin is 350 to 20,000, preferably about 300 to 6,000. It is preferable that these phenol resins be soluble in organic solvents such as ketones including acetone, methyl ethyl ketone, methyl isobutyl ketone, cyclohexanone, glycol ethers including ethylene glycol monomethyl ether, ethylene glycol monoethyl ether, 2-methoxy ethyl acetate, dioxane, and esters including butyl acetate , ethyl acetate.
  • organic solvents such as ketones including acetone, methyl ethyl ketone, methyl isobutyl ketone, cyclohexanone, glycol ethers including ethylene glycol monomethyl ether, ethylene glycol monoethyl ether, 2-methoxy ethyl acetate, dioxane, and esters including butyl acetate , ethy
  • a photoconductive material and 0.01 to 100 parts (preferably within the range where the photoconductive layer is dissolved and removed in an alkaline solution) of a binder phenol resin are mixed in one of the above organic solvents and, when necessary, an electron accepting compound or an electron donating compound is added in an amount of 0.01 to 100 moles per mole of pigment (preferably 0.01 to 10 moles), then the mixture is uniformly dispersed by use of a ball mill or a supersonic disperser.
  • the light-sensitive solution obtained is coated and dried to a thickness of 1 to 50 ⁇ m, preferably 1 to 10 ⁇ m, on a conductive support described later, followed by a heat treatment at 70 C or above to raise the solubility of the photoconductive layer in the solution to remove the photoconductive layer.
  • conductive supports having a hydrophilic surface such as aluminium plates, resin sheets laminated with aluminium, zinc plates, bimetal plates including copper-aluminium plates, copper-stainless steel plates, chromium-copper plates, and trimetal plates including chromium-copper-aluminium plates, chromium-lead-iron plates, chromium-copper-stainless steel plates.
  • supports having an aluminium surface prefferably be subjected to a surface treatment such as roughening, anodizing or dipping in an aqueous solution of sodium silicate, potassium zirconium fluoride or a phosphate.
  • a surface treatment such as roughening, anodizing or dipping in an aqueous solution of sodium silicate, potassium zirconium fluoride or a phosphate.
  • aluminum plates roughened and then dipped in an aqueous solution of sodium silicate as disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 2,714,066; and aluminium plates anodized and then dipped in an aqueous solution of an alkali metal silicate as disclosed in Japanese Pat. Exam. Pub. No. 5125/1972.
  • the anodizing can be carried out by applying an electric current, using an aluminium plate as anode, to an electrolytic solution comprised of a single or combination of aqueous or nonaqueous solutions of inorganic acids such as phosphoric acid, chromic acid, sulfuric acid, nitric acid, organic acids such as oxalic acid, sulfamic acid, or salts of them.
  • inorganic acids such as phosphoric acid, chromic acid, sulfuric acid, nitric acid, organic acids such as oxalic acid, sulfamic acid, or salts of them.
  • an alkali-soluble intermediate layer comprised of casein, polyvinyl alcohol, ethyl cellulose, phenol resin, styrene-maleic anhydride copolymer or polyacrylic acid between the conductive support and the photoconductive layer, for the purposes of raising the adhesion between these two and improving electrostatic properties in the exposure process.
  • an overcoat layer to be dissolved at the time of removing the photoconductive layer may be provided on the photoconductive layer of light-sensitive planographic printing plates according to the invention, in order to improve the electrophotographic property of the photoconductive layer, the developing characteristics in toner development, and the image characteristics.
  • developers (toners) used in the method of the invention be hydrophobic and ink-receptive and contain a high-molecular compound selected from polystyrene type resins, polyester type resins (e.g., acrylic esters containing amino groups, long-chained acrylic esters), acrylic type resins (e.g., resins containing phenolic hydroxyl groups or sulfone groups), epoxy resins, vegetable-oil-modified alkyd resins, cyclized rubbers, asphalt and polyvinyl chlorides.
  • polyester type resins e.g., acrylic esters containing amino groups, long-chained acrylic esters
  • acrylic type resins e.g., resins containing phenolic hydroxyl groups or sulfone groups
  • epoxy resins e.g., epoxy resins, vegetable-oil-modified alkyd resins, cyclized rubbers, asphalt and polyvinyl chlorides.
  • a colorant such as carbon black, Nigrosine pigment, Carmine 6B, phthalocyanine blue, benzidine yellow or phthalocyanine green and, further, a charge controlling agent such as a metal salt of fatty acid or naphthenic acid, a metal-containing pigment or a sulfonate.
  • the means to form a toner image in the electrophotographic mode is not particularly limited, and conventional means can be adopted. However, it is preferable that the toner development be performed in an electrophotographic liquid developer comprised of an electrical insulating liquid carrier containing a colorant (e.g., carbon black, copper phthalocyanine), a coating agent and a charge controlling agent.
  • a colorant e.g., carbon black, copper phthalocyanine
  • Particularly preferred developers are those which contain, besides a colorant, one or plural types of polyethylene, polypropylene, ethylene copolymer and propylene copolymer as coating agents, and a phosphate type surfactant as a charge controlling agent.
  • Etchants used in the method according to the invention contain a strong alkaline aqueous solution having a pH value of 12 or more, which is comprised of an alkali metal hydroxide, an alkali metal silicate, an alkali metal phosphate or an alkali metal aluminate, water and, if necessary, a surfactant and other additives.
  • etchants used in the method according to the invention contain an aqueous solution comprised of an anionic surfactant, an organic solvent of which solubility to water is 10 wt% or less, an alkali agent, water, and, if necessary, an antistain agent as described, for example, in Japanese Pat. O.P.I. Pub. Nos. 77401/1976, 80228/1976, 44202/1978 and 52054/1980. Furthermore, there can also be used a double purpose developer for negative PS plates and positive PS plates described, for example, in Japanese Pat. O.P.I. Pub. No. 130741/1985.
  • the surface tension of an etchant is adjusted at 45 dyne/cm or less, preferably 35 dyne/cm or less, with the addition of a surfactant.
  • Usable rinsing solutions include water and aqueous solutions containing an alkali agent, besides ones disclosed in Japanese Pat. Appl. No. 17835/1991. When etchnig and rinsing are carried out continuously, it is needless to say that the rinsing solution becomes alkaline because the etchant is brought into the rinsing process.
  • Removal of toners can be performed, for example, by the methods disclosed in Japanese Pat. O.P.I. Pub. Nos. 66863/1981, 130766/1981, 280769/1987, a method for wiping out toners using an aqueous organic solvent (preferred organic solvents are alcohols whose solubility to water is 10 wt% or less at 20 C, combination with a surfactant gives favorable results), and a method for wiping out toners using a treating agent comprised of a hydrocarbon solvent dispersed in water.
  • aqueous organic solvent are alcohols whose solubility to water is 10 wt% or less at 20 C, combination with a surfactant gives favorable results
  • a treating agent comprised of a hydrocarbon solvent dispersed in water.
  • a nonimage portion was subjected to scanning exposure to form an electrophotographic latent image, by use of a plotter capable of writing in the semiconductor laser mode with a resolution of 2000 DPI.
  • This plotter was to record an image (an electrostatic latent image) according to the image signal sent from a computer connected.
  • the power of the laser beam at the plate surface was 1 mW, and the beam diameter was 13 ⁇ at the point where the light intensity being 1/e2 of the maximum value.
  • the electrophotographic latent image was enlarged in the following procedure.
  • the space between the developing electrodes was set at 2 mm all over the electrode surfaces.
  • a bias potential of +40 V was applied onto the surface of the photoconductive layer of the plate, and developing was performed for 7 seconds while continuously feeding a liquid developer to the electrode tube at a flow rate of 10 l/min. Then, fixing was carried out for 5 seconds by heating the plate to 150°C with an infrared heater.
  • the liquid developer used was prepared in the following manner.
  • the above mixture was dispersed for 5 hours using glass beads.
  • Sanwax 151 P polyethylene made by Sanyo Chemical Ind., average molecular weight: 2000
  • the dispersion was then diluted to 80 times its volume to obtain the liquid developer.
  • the amount of side etching was set at 10 ⁇ by adjusting the etching time.
  • composition of the etchant was as follows. It was diluted with water at a volume ratio of 1:5 (water) before use.
  • the above diluted etchant was kept at 27°C and fed to the surface of the developed plate at a rate of 400 ml/min.
  • the carrier speed of the plate was adjusted so as to give an etching time of 15 seconds.
  • the amount of the etchant applied onto the printing plate was adjusted at 180 ml/m2.
  • toners present on the surface of the printing plate were wiped out with a sponge wiper soaked with Isopar G made by Exxon Co.
  • Examples 2 and 3 enlargement of characters and line drawings was performed by enlarging their electrophotographic images by one dot each in the scanning direction and the sub-scanning direction, and setting the LUT and the side etching width as shown in Table 1.
  • Example 4 LUT conversion was made, in the area where the halftone reproducibility was 90%, so as to have the number of screen lines coincide with that shown in Fig. 5.
  • Example 5 imagewise exposure was conducted and then reversal processing was performed using Power Toner made by Cemmco Co. as liquid developer, besides the conditions described in Table 1.
  • Example 6 the diameter of the laser beam was adjusted to be 18 ⁇ at the point where the light intensity was 1/e2 of the maximum value.
  • Example 7 printing plates carrying fixed toner images were etched in the apparatus illustrated in Japanese Pat. Exam. Pub. No. 60825/1988 as in Example 1.
  • etchant there was used one prepared by diluting 1 liter of SDR-1 made by Konica Corp. with 5 liters of water and adjusting to 30°C.
  • a rinsing solution water was used.
  • the minimum side ethcing width and the maximum side etching width obtained in this Example are shown in Table 1 together with the evaluation results of respective printing plates.
  • Comparative Example 6 printing plates carrying fixed toner images, which were used in Comparative Example 1, were continuously processed in the same manner as in Example 7, except that the side etching width was set at 7 ⁇ .
  • Comparative Example 7 The procedure of Comparative Example 7 was the same as that in Comparative Example 6, except that the side etching width was set at 15 ⁇ .
  • Example 9 printing free from dot gain was attempted by reducing the amount of ink, but prints obtained were poor in solid density, low even in densities of details and insufficient in image reproducubility.
  • Example 2 A printing experiment was conducted under the same conditions as in Example 1, except that toners were not removed. In printing the first 300 sheets, deterioration in halftone reproducibility was observed, that is, halftone densities of 5%, 50% and 95% on the original image became 6%, 52% and 96%, respectively. But fine lines were satisfactorily reproduced, and no stains occurred in nonimage portions.

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