EP0644064B1 - A flexible supported lithographic printing plate having improved printing endurance - Google Patents
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- the present invention relates to a method for making a lithographic printing plate, in particular to a method wherein a lithographic printing plate precursor having a flexible support, e.g. a polyester film support is used.
- Lithographic printing is the process of printing from specially prepared surfaces, some areas of which are capable of accepting ink (oleophilic areas) whereas other areas will not accept ink (oleophobic areas).
- the oleophilic areas form the printing areas while the oleophobic areas form the background areas.
- lithographic printing plates Two basic types of lithographic printing plates are known. According to a first type, so called wet printing plates, both water or an aqueous dampening liquid and ink are applied to the plate surface that contains hydrophilic and hydrophobic areas. The hydrophilic areas will be soaked with water or the dampening liquid and are thereby rendered oleophobic while the hydrophobic areas will accept the ink.
- a second type of lithographic printing plates operates without the use of a dampening liquid and are called driographic printing plates. This type of printing plates comprise highly ink repellant areas and oleophilic areas. Generally the highly ink repellant areas are formed by a silicon layer.
- Lithographic printing plates can be prepared using a photosensitive lithographic printing plate precursor, also called imaging element.
- imaging element is exposed in accordance with the image data and is generally developed thereafter so that a differentiation results in ink accepting properties between the exposed and unexposed areas.
- photosensitive lithographic printing plate precursors are for example the silver salt diffusion transfer (hereinafter DTR) materials disclosed in EP-A-410500, EP-A-483415, EP-A-423399, imaging elements having a photosensitive layer containing diazonium salts or a diazo resin as described in e.g. EP-A-450199, imaging elements having a photosensitive layer containing a photopolymerizable composition as described in e.g. EP-A-502562, EP-A-491457, EP-A-503602, EP-A-471483 or DE-A-4102173.
- DTR silver salt diffusion transfer
- a lithographic printing plate may be prepared from a heat mode recording material as a lithographic printing plate precursor.
- a heat pattern in accordance with image data and optional development the surface of such heat mode recording material may be differentiated in ink accepting and ink repellant areas.
- the heat pattern may be caused by a direct heating source such as a thermal head but may also be caused by a light source as e.g. a laser.
- the heat mode recording material will include a substance capable of converting the light into heat.
- Heat mode recording materials that can be used for making a lithographic printing plate precursor are described in e.g. EP-A-0 573 091 (prior art according to Art. 54(3) EPC) DE-A-2512038, FR-A-1.473.751, Research Disclosure 19201 of April 1980 or Research Disclosure 33303 of January 1992.
- metal support such as e.g. aluminium
- flexible supports such as e.g. paper or polyester film supports.
- the flexible supports are used for short run jobs where they have a cost advantage over metal supports.
- a transparent flexible support exposure of the lithographic printing place precursor may proceed through the support which allows the use of cameras without special optics.
- a disadvantage of the use of flexible supported lithographic printing plates is however the inherently low dimensional stability which is one of the causes limiting the printing endurance of the printing plate especially when two or more images need to be printed over each other in register such as e.g. in color printing. Attempts have therefore been made to increase the dimensional stability of a flexible supported printing plate by e.g. using a thicker flexible support. Although this brings some improvement, there is still a need for further improvement. Furthermore, the use of a thicker support may cause problems in some processing equipment used for processing the printing plate precursor.
- lithographic printing plate precursor and printing plate having a flexible support and which printing plate has an improved printing endurance especially when used in printing images over each other in register.
- a lithographic printing plate precursor comprising on a first side of a flexible support a surface capable of being differentiated in oleophilic and oleophobic areas upon imaging and on a second side opposite to said first side a layer comprising micro-particles of pressure-sensitive adhesive covered with a protective stripping layer.
- a lithographic printing plate comprising on a first side of a flexible support a surface differentiated in oleophilic and oleophobic areas and on a second side opposite to said first side a layer comprising micro-particles of pressure-sensitive adhesive.
- lithographic printing plates according to the present invention show little or no stretching when mounted under stress on a printing machine. Furthermore, after printing the printing plates can be removed without leaving substantial traces of adhesive and even if some adhesive remains on the printing machine it can be easily removed.
- the micro-particles can be present on the back of the lithographic printing plate precursor which means that they will be present during processing of the precursor to the printing plate.
- a protective layer is used to cover the micro-particles of pressure-sensitive adhesive and is removed after processing before mounting the printing plate.
- cover layer there can be used almost any material because of the low adhesive strength of the micro-particle adhesives.
- cover layers are e.g. paper or a thin plastic film.
- cover layer may include matting agents to avoid sticking of one printing plate precursor to another so that in an automatic processor precursors may be drawn from a pack without difficulty.
- the micro-particles of pressure sensitive adhesive can be applied to the back of the printing plate precursor using a coating solution containing the micro-particles and a binder being inert thereto as described in e.g. US-P-3.857.731.
- the micro-particles are preferably elastomeric and tacky acrylate copolymers. They preferably consist of 90 to 99.5% by weight of at least one alkyl acrylate ester and 10 to 0.5% by weight of a monomer selected from the group consisting of substantially oil-insoluble, water-soluble, ionic monomers and maleic anhydride.
- the micro-particles may have an average diameter between 1 and 250 ⁇ m more preferably between 5 and 150 ⁇ m.
- the acrylate ester portion of the micro-particles preferably consists of those monomers that are hydrophobic, water emulsifiable, substantially water insoluble and which as homopolymers generally have a glass transition temperature of 20°C or less.
- monomers are iso-octyl acrylate, 4-methyl-2-pentyl acrylate, 2-methylbutyl acrylate and sec-butyl acrylate.
- ionic monomers for use in the micro-particles are e.g. trimethylamine methacrylamide, trimethylamine p-vinylbenzimide, ammonium acrylate, sodium acrylate, N,N-dimethyl-N-1-(2-hydroxypropyl)amine methacrylamide and maleic anhydride.
- the micro-particles may be prepared according to the method described in US-P 3,857,731.
- Suitable binders for use in combination with the micro-particles are binders that are inert towards the micro-particles i.e. they do not chemically attack the particles or act as a solvent for them.
- binders are nitrocellulose, urethanes, gelatin, polyvinyl alcohol etc...
- the amount of binder should be chosen such that the micro-particles are effectively anchored to the back of the lithographic printing plate precursor but should not be so much as to cause complete submergence of the micro-particles in the binder so that no micro-particles are available at the surface i.e. the micro-particles should protrude from the layer.
- the amount of binder is between 0.15 parts by weight and 2.5 parts by weight with respect to the micro-particles and more preferably between 0.2 and 0.6.
- the micro-particles may be applied without the aid of a binder by spraying a suspension of the micro-particles in a solvent e.g. water as disclosed in EP-A-278557.
- a solvent e.g. water as disclosed in EP-A-278557.
- This will result in islands of the pressure-sensitive adhesive on the back of the lithographic printing plate precursor.
- not only the pressure-sensitive adhesives described above can be used but also other conventionally used pressure-sensitive adhesives having a continuous-coat (100% coverage) peel adhesion values, when applied to untreated paper, in the order of 100-1000g/cm width.
- the surface coverage of the pressure-sensitive adhesive is preferably from 10 to 85% and more preferably from 20 to 60%.
- the individual islands formed are preferably 0.01-0.15mm thick and at least roughly circular having a diameter not larger then 0.02-1.5mm. It may occur that some islands form a chain but this should be limited to the stated dimensions. More details about suitable sprays and pressure-sensitive adhesive for use in this method are disclosed in EP-A-276557.
- the above method of spraying the micro-particles is also the preferred method for applying the micro-particles to the backing of a lithographic printing plate obtained from a precursor not having the micro-particles on the back.
- the present invention may be used with any type of lithographic printing plate (precursor) having a flexible support. Examples are the printing plate (precursors) mentioned in the introduction.
- the present invention is however especially suitable for use with a lithographic printing plate precursor that is processed according to the DTR-process to obtain a lithographic printing plate.
- Such lithographic printing plate precursor comprises on a flexible support in the order given an optional base coat, a silver halide emulsion layer and an image-receiving surface layer.
- the back side of the support generally contains one or more backing layers.
- the outermost backing layer can include micro-particles of pressure-sensitive adhesive or these may be sprayed thereon. The micro-particles are then covered with a cover layer as described above.
- the precursor is image-wise exposed, e.g. by means of a camera or a laser or LED, and is subsequently developed in alkaline processing liquid containing a silver halide solvent in the presence of developing agents.
- the plates surface may then be neutralised with a neutralising liquid.
- the image receiving layer will bare a silver image that is capable of accepting greasy ink in a printing process using a dampening liquid.
- the advantage of the present invention in this method of making a printing plate according to the DTR-process is the fact that the plate can be processed as usual without loss of the adhesive strength or pollution of the processing liquid by the adhesive. Before mounting the obtained printing plate the cover layer is removed.
- the two pairs of four lithographic printing plate precursors were then imaged with the four color separations (YMCK) of a color test image.
- the precursors were then processed as described in the example of EP-A-532076.
- the obtained four printing plates and the other four printing plates not having the micro-particles were then used to print on a Heidelberg GTO 46 printing machine.
Description
The present invention relates to a method for making a
lithographic printing plate, in particular to a method wherein a
lithographic printing plate precursor having a flexible support,
e.g. a polyester film support is used.
Lithographic printing is the process of printing from specially
prepared surfaces, some areas of which are capable of accepting ink
(oleophilic areas) whereas other areas will not accept ink
(oleophobic areas). The oleophilic areas form the printing areas
while the oleophobic areas form the background areas.
Two basic types of lithographic printing plates are known.
According to a first type, so called wet printing plates, both water
or an aqueous dampening liquid and ink are applied to the plate
surface that contains hydrophilic and hydrophobic areas. The
hydrophilic areas will be soaked with water or the dampening liquid
and are thereby rendered oleophobic while the hydrophobic areas will
accept the ink. A second type of lithographic printing plates
operates without the use of a dampening liquid and are called
driographic printing plates. This type of printing plates comprise
highly ink repellant areas and oleophilic areas. Generally the
highly ink repellant areas are formed by a silicon layer.
Lithographic printing plates can be prepared using a
photosensitive lithographic printing plate precursor, also called
imaging element. Such imaging element is exposed in accordance with
the image data and is generally developed thereafter so that a
differentiation results in ink accepting properties between the
exposed and unexposed areas.
Examples of photosensitive lithographic printing plate
precursors are for example the silver salt diffusion transfer
(hereinafter DTR) materials disclosed in EP-A-410500, EP-A-483415,
EP-A-423399, imaging elements having a photosensitive layer
containing diazonium salts or a diazo resin as described in e.g.
EP-A-450199, imaging elements having a photosensitive layer
containing a photopolymerizable composition as described in e.g.
EP-A-502562, EP-A-491457, EP-A-503602, EP-A-471483 or DE-A-4102173.
Alternatively a lithographic printing plate may be prepared from
a heat mode recording material as a lithographic printing plate
precursor. Upon application of a heat pattern in accordance with
image data and optional development the surface of such heat mode
recording material may be differentiated in ink accepting and ink
repellant areas. The heat pattern may be caused by a direct heating
source such as a thermal head but may also be caused by a light
source as e.g. a laser. In the latter case the heat mode recording
material will include a substance capable of converting the light
into heat. Heat mode recording materials that can be used for
making a lithographic printing plate precursor are described in e.g.
EP-A-0 573 091 (prior art according to Art. 54(3) EPC)
DE-A-2512038, FR-A-1.473.751, Research Disclosure
19201 of April 1980 or Research Disclosure 33303 of January 1992.
As supports for the above mentioned lithographic printing plates
there are known metal support such as e.g. aluminium and flexible
supports such as e.g. paper or polyester film supports. Generally
the flexible supports are used for short run jobs where they have a
cost advantage over metal supports. Furthermore, if a transparent
flexible support is used exposure of the lithographic printing place
precursor may proceed through the support which allows the use of
cameras without special optics.
A disadvantage of the use of flexible supported lithographic
printing plates is however the inherently low dimensional stability
which is one of the causes limiting the printing endurance of the
printing plate especially when two or more images need to be printed
over each other in register such as e.g. in color printing.
Attempts have therefore been made to increase the dimensional
stability of a flexible supported printing plate by e.g. using a
thicker flexible support. Although this brings some improvement,
there is still a need for further improvement. Furthermore, the use
of a thicker support may cause problems in some processing equipment
used for processing the printing plate precursor.
In JP 236692/63 (Kokai) it has been proposed to adhere the
flexible support of the printing plate to a metallic plate using a
hot-melt adhesive. This method is cumbersome and does no longer
present a cost advantage over the use of a lithographic printing
plate precursor having a metal support.
Accordingly it is an object of the present invention to provide
a lithographic printing plate precursor and printing plate having a
flexible support and which printing plate has an improved printing
endurance especially when used in printing images over each other in
register.
Further objects of the present invention will become clear from
the description hereinafter.
According to the present invention there is provided a
lithographic printing plate precursor comprising on a first side of
a flexible support a surface capable of being differentiated in
oleophilic and oleophobic areas upon imaging and on a second side
opposite to said first side a layer comprising micro-particles of
pressure-sensitive adhesive covered with a protective stripping
layer.
According to the present invention there is further provided a
lithographic printing plate comprising on a first side of a flexible
support a surface differentiated in oleophilic and oleophobic areas
and on a second side opposite to said first side a layer comprising
micro-particles of pressure-sensitive adhesive.
As a consequence of the presence of micro-particles of pressure
sensitive-adhesive on the back side, lithographic printing plates
according to the present invention show little or no stretching when
mounted under stress on a printing machine. Furthermore, after
printing the printing plates can be removed without leaving
substantial traces of adhesive and even if some adhesive remains on
the printing machine it can be easily removed.
According to the present invention the micro-particles can be
present on the back of the lithographic printing plate precursor
which means that they will be present during processing of the
precursor to the printing plate. In this case a protective layer is
used to cover the micro-particles of pressure-sensitive adhesive and
is removed after processing before mounting the printing plate. As
a cover layer there can be used almost any material because of the
low adhesive strength of the micro-particle adhesives. Examples of
suitable cover layers are e.g. paper or a thin plastic film. Such
cover layer may include matting agents to avoid sticking of one
printing plate precursor to another so that in an automatic
processor precursors may be drawn from a pack without difficulty.
According to a first embodiment in connection with the present
invention the micro-particles of pressure sensitive adhesive can be
applied to the back of the printing plate precursor using a coating
solution containing the micro-particles and a binder being inert
thereto as described in e.g. US-P-3.857.731. The micro-particles
are preferably elastomeric and tacky acrylate copolymers. They
preferably consist of 90 to 99.5% by weight of at least one alkyl
acrylate ester and 10 to 0.5% by weight of a monomer selected from
the group consisting of substantially oil-insoluble, water-soluble,
ionic monomers and maleic anhydride. The micro-particles may have
an average diameter between 1 and 250µm more preferably between 5
and 150µm.
The acrylate ester portion of the micro-particles preferably
consists of those monomers that are hydrophobic, water emulsifiable,
substantially water insoluble and which as homopolymers generally
have a glass transition temperature of 20°C or less. Examples of
such monomers are iso-octyl acrylate, 4-methyl-2-pentyl acrylate, 2-methylbutyl
acrylate and sec-butyl acrylate.
Examples of ionic monomers for use in the micro-particles are
e.g. trimethylamine methacrylamide, trimethylamine p-vinylbenzimide,
ammonium acrylate, sodium acrylate, N,N-dimethyl-N-1-(2-hydroxypropyl)amine
methacrylamide and maleic anhydride. The micro-particles
may be prepared according to the method described in US-P
3,857,731.
Suitable binders for use in combination with the micro-particles
are binders that are inert towards the micro-particles i.e. they do
not chemically attack the particles or act as a solvent for them.
Examples of binders are nitrocellulose, urethanes, gelatin,
polyvinyl alcohol etc...
The amount of binder should be chosen such that the micro-particles
are effectively anchored to the back of the lithographic
printing plate precursor but should not be so much as to cause
complete submergence of the micro-particles in the binder so that no
micro-particles are available at the surface i.e. the micro-particles
should protrude from the layer. Preferably the amount of
binder is between 0.15 parts by weight and 2.5 parts by weight with
respect to the micro-particles and more preferably between 0.2 and
0.6.
According to a second embodiment the micro-particles may be
applied without the aid of a binder by spraying a suspension of the
micro-particles in a solvent e.g. water as disclosed in EP-A-278557.
This will result in islands of the pressure-sensitive adhesive on
the back of the lithographic printing plate precursor. As an
advantage of this method, not only the pressure-sensitive adhesives
described above can be used but also other conventionally used
pressure-sensitive adhesives having a continuous-coat (100%
coverage) peel adhesion values, when applied to untreated paper, in
the order of 100-1000g/cm width.
When sprayed to the backing of the lithographic printing plate
precursor the surface coverage of the pressure-sensitive adhesive is
preferably from 10 to 85% and more preferably from 20 to 60%. The
individual islands formed are preferably 0.01-0.15mm thick and at
least roughly circular having a diameter not larger then 0.02-1.5mm.
It may occur that some islands form a chain but this should be
limited to the stated dimensions. More details about suitable
sprays and pressure-sensitive adhesive for use in this method are
disclosed in EP-A-276557.
The above method of spraying the micro-particles is also the
preferred method for applying the micro-particles to the backing of
a lithographic printing plate obtained from a precursor not having
the micro-particles on the back.
The present invention may be used with any type of lithographic
printing plate (precursor) having a flexible support. Examples are
the printing plate (precursors) mentioned in the introduction. The
present invention is however especially suitable for use with a
lithographic printing plate precursor that is processed according to
the DTR-process to obtain a lithographic printing plate.
Such lithographic printing plate precursor comprises on a
flexible support in the order given an optional base coat, a silver
halide emulsion layer and an image-receiving surface layer. The
back side of the support generally contains one or more backing
layers. According to the present invention the outermost backing
layer can include micro-particles of pressure-sensitive adhesive or
these may be sprayed thereon. The micro-particles are then covered
with a cover layer as described above.
To obtain a lithographic printing plate from such a precursor
the precursor is image-wise exposed, e.g. by means of a camera or a
laser or LED, and is subsequently developed in alkaline processing
liquid containing a silver halide solvent in the presence of
developing agents. The plates surface may then be neutralised with
a neutralising liquid. After processing the image receiving layer
will bare a silver image that is capable of accepting greasy ink in
a printing process using a dampening liquid. The advantage of the
present invention in this method of making a printing plate
according to the DTR-process is the fact that the plate can be
processed as usual without loss of the adhesive strength or
pollution of the processing liquid by the adhesive. Before mounting
the obtained printing plate the cover layer is removed.
The present invention will now be illustrated by the following
example without the intention to limit the invention thereto. All
parts are by weight unless otherwise specified.
Two times four lithographic printing plate precursors having a
polyethyleneterephthalate support (0.2mm) where prepared as
described in the example of EP-A-532076.
The two pairs of four lithographic printing plate precursors
were then imaged with the four color separations (YMCK) of a color
test image. The precursors were then processed as described in the
example of EP-A-532076.
Four printing plates corresponding to the color separations were
then sprayed on the back with 3M Spray Mount (commercially available
from 3M) to apply the micro-particles of pressure-sensitive
adhesive.
The obtained four printing plates and the other four printing
plates not having the micro-particles were then used to print on a
Heidelberg GTO 46 printing machine.
It was found that the four printing plates having the micro-particles
of pressure-sensitive adhesive showed hardly no stretching
of the image whereas the other four plates showed a considerable
stretching of around 0.5mm/m during printing. As a consequence the
number of copies that could be obtained with the printing plates
having the micro-particles of pressure-sensitive adhesive was about
twice the printing endurance of the comparitive four plates.
Claims (9)
- A lithographic printing plate precursor comprising on a first side of a flexible support a surface capable of being differentiated in oleophilic and oleophobic areas upon imaging and on a second side opposite to said first side a layer comprising micro-particles of pressure-sensitive adhesive covered with a protective stripping layer.
- A lithographic printing plate precursor according to claim 1 wherein said flexible support is paper or a polyester film.
- A lithographic printing plate precursor according to claim 1 wherein said layer comprising micro-particles is essentially free of binder and said micro-particles are present in the form of islands covering between 10 and 85% of the surface of said second side.
- A lithographic printing plate precursor according to claim 1 wherein said layer comprising said micro-particles further contains a binder.
- A lithographic printing plate precursor according to any of the above claims comprising on said first side in the order given a silver halide emulsion layer and an image receiving layer containing physical development nuclei.
- A lithographic printing plate comprising on a first side of a flexible support a surface differentiated in oleophilic and oleophobic areas and on a second side opposite to said first side a layer comprising micro-particles of pressure-sensitive adhesive.
- A lithographic printing plate according to claim 6 wherein said flexible support is paper or a polyester film.
- A lithographic printing plate according to claim 6 wherein said layer comprising micro-particles is essentially free of binder and said micro-particles are present in the form of islands covering between 10 and 85% of the surface of said second side.
- A lithographic printing plate according to any of claims 6 to 8 comprising on said first side in the order given a developed silver halide emulsion layer and an image receiving layer containing a silver image capable of accepting greasy ink.
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