US3156183A - Thermographic offset master and method of use - Google Patents

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US3156183A
US3156183A US105188A US10518861A US3156183A US 3156183 A US3156183 A US 3156183A US 105188 A US105188 A US 105188A US 10518861 A US10518861 A US 10518861A US 3156183 A US3156183 A US 3156183A
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    • B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
    • B41N—PRINTING PLATES OR FOILS; MATERIALS FOR SURFACES USED IN PRINTING MACHINES FOR PRINTING, INKING, DAMPING, OR THE LIKE; PREPARING SUCH SURFACES FOR USE AND CONSERVING THEM
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    • B41N1/12—Printing plates or foils; Materials therefor non-metallic other than stone, e.g. printing plates or foils comprising inorganic materials in an organic matrix
    • B41N1/14—Lithographic printing foils
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    • B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
    • B41C—PROCESSES FOR THE MANUFACTURE OR REPRODUCTION OF PRINTING SURFACES
    • B41C1/00—Forme preparation
    • B41C1/10—Forme preparation for lithographic printing; Master sheets for transferring a lithographic image to the forme
    • B41C1/1041—Forme preparation for lithographic printing; Master sheets for transferring a lithographic image to the forme by modification of the lithographic properties without removal or addition of material, e.g. by the mere generation of a lithographic pattern

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  • This invention relates to an offset master and to the method for imaging same and it relates more particularly to an offset master which can be imaged by a heat pattern, such as may be obtained by irradiation of an original in contact with the imageable surface of the offset or lithographic plate.
  • This invention will be described with reference to a lithographic plate that can be imaged directly by irradiation of an original in contact with the imageable surface of the plate whereby the radiations are absorbed by the imaged portion of the original and converted into heat to develop a heat pattern which is transferred to the lithographic plate to form the corresponding ink receptive, water repellent image on the lithographic surface of the plate.
  • the development of the ink receptive, water repellent image in response to heat can be adapted to other thermographic processes for imaging the plate, such for example as a heated die, heated stylus, or the like.
  • thermographic technique for imaging a plate directly from an original wherein the original is formed with a radiation-absorbing-heat generating imaged portion.
  • Such process has required the use of a separate transfer sheet having a transfer coating of an ink receptive, water repellent imaging material which is interposed between the original and the lithographic surface of the plate whereby the heat pattern which is developed upon irradiation of the original transfer from the original to the transfer sheet to cause fusion of corresponding portions of the transfer coating whereby the fused portions of the transfer coating can be displaced to the lithographic plate to form the ink receptive, water repellent image on the lithographic surface thereof.
  • thermographic technique there are a number of objections to adoption of the thermographic technique in a system of the type described.
  • introduction of a transfer sheet with its transferred coating as an intermediate sheet between the original and the lithographic plate results in excessive spread of the heat pattern or image whereby copy of poor quality and definition is secured.
  • the transfer sheet is capable of but a single use in the preparation of an imaged master and thus materially adds to the cost of the preparation of the imaged plate. Further, it constitutes an additional element which raises problems of storage, inventory and use and thereby undesirably complicates the process and increases the cost thereof.
  • the transferred coating sometimes becomes poorly bonded to the lithographic surface of the plate with the result that portions, if not all,.of the image may walk off of the plate so that copy of poor quality is produced.
  • FIG. 1 is a perspective view in section schematically showing a lithographic plate embodying the features of this invention
  • FIG. 2 is a perspective view of the plate shown in FIG. 1 schematically illustrating the arrangement of elements for imaging from an original;
  • FIG. 3 is a perspective view in section of the lithographic plate shown in FIGS. 1 and 2 with the latent image formed thereon;
  • FIG. 4 is a perspective view similar to that of FIGS. 1, 2 and 3 of the imaged lithographic plate.
  • thermographic offset master and the use thereof in the preparation of an imaged master directly from an original. It will be understood that the plate hereinafter to be described can also be imaged by other means for the application of heat in the imaged areas and that the following specific description is given only by way of illustration but not by way of limitation.
  • the coating composition is then applied in coating weights of about 1 /2 to 6 pounds per 3,000 square feet of surface area by conventioinal coating techniques, such as roller coating, brush coating, spray coating, flow coating and the like, to provide a continuous, uniform and thin coating 10 onto the lithographic, ink repellent, water receptive, relatively non-absorbent surface 12 of a base plate 14.
  • the coating is then allowed to dry or may be force dried at elevated temperatures but below the melting point temperature of either the wax or the resinous binder.
  • a uniform dry coating 10 is formed on the lithographic surface to form the lithographic plate.
  • EXAMPLE 2 absorbing-heat generating, i.e., it is formed of a material which generates heat in response to the absorption of infra-red rays.
  • the rays striking the non-imaged portions of the original are, for the most part, reflected while the rays striking the infra-red ray absorbing-heat generating imaged portions 18 of the orig inal are absorbed to develop a heat pattern 24 corresponding to the original.
  • the heat pattern transfers to the adjacent coating to cause fusion in the areas 26 corresponding to the heat pattern whereby the ink receptive, water repellent wax portion of the fused coating is capable of flow for attachment to the lithographic surface 12 to define an ink receptive, water repellent image 28 on the lithographic surface.
  • the nonimaged portions of the coating which have not been fused are redispersed or otherwise displaced in the aqueous medium for removal from the underlying ink repellent, water receptive, lithographic surface thereby to provide a lithographic plate containing a wax, ink receptive, water repellent image 28 corresponding to the original and from which multiple copies can be produced by conventional lithographic duplicating means.
  • water receptive, ink repellent lithographic base use can be made of a sheet of metal, such as aluminum, zinc, copper or the like amphoteric metal, in which the surface is preferably etched, silicated or otherwise treated to enhance the ink repellent, water receptive, lithographic characteristics of the surface.
  • a sheet of metal such as aluminum, zinc, copper or the like amphoteric metal
  • the surface is preferably etched, silicated or otherwise treated to enhance the ink repellent, water receptive, lithographic characteristics of the surface.
  • use can be made of less expensive and more flexible plates such as are fabricated of paper base sheets provided with a relatively non-absorbent, water receptive, ink repellent, lithographic coating such as may be formulated of casein, as described in the Worthen Patent No. 2,534,650; alginate, as described in the Ensink Patent No. 2,835,576; carboxymethyl cellulose, as described in the Van Dusen Patent No.
  • the lithographic base may be constructed of a thin film of metal of the type described above laminated onto a suitable paper base sheet as the carrier.
  • carnauba wax in Example 1 use can be made of other oleaginous, ink receptive, water repellent imaging materials capable of being subdivided into a particulate or powdered substance for distribution as the dispersed phase in the binder system but which is reducible to a fused state capable of flow and adhesion to the lithographic surface for image development when heated to a temperature capable of being developed upon infra-red radiation of the original and preferably at a temperature above ambient temperature and more preferably a temerature on the order of about 150 F. or above.
  • suitable materials capable of use in substitution for the carnauba wax in Example 1 are castor wax, sugar cane wax, shellac wax, fatty acid soaps such as zinc, aluminum, barium and the like stearates, palmitates, etc.
  • the partially hydrolyzed polyvinyl acetate functions as the binder component in the coating composition. It is preferred to make use of a binder which is soluble in aqueous medium for solution in the coating composition and for solution in the aqueous medium with which the exposed plate is treated to remove the coating in the nonimaged areas of the plate. Where suificient coating strength is available from a binder in a dispersed phase, use can be made of a water dispersible binder which can be redispersed in the aqueous medium with which the exposed plate is treated. Thus instead of the partially hydrolyzed polyvinyl acetate, use can be made of polyvinyl alcohol, methyl cellulose, water and alcohol soluble waxes, such as aquawax and the like.
  • a binder component which is also characterized by a fusion temperature within the range of the fusion temperature for the dispersed particles of the ink receptive, water repellent component of the coating composition; otherwise it will be more difficult for the fused image forming materials to migrate to the surface of the plate to form the image and strongly to bond the image to the lithographic surface.
  • the amount of binder should be sufiicient merely to hold the particles together in the coating and to hold the coating onto the lithographic surfaces until the plate is imaged for copy reproduction.
  • the imaging component should be present in the ratio of from 2 to 5 parts by weight of the imaging material to 1 part by weight binder.
  • readability of the image formed in the applied coating can be achieved by formulation of the coating composition to contain a small proportion of a relatively non-infra-red absorbing dyestuff which is soluble in the oleaginous, ink receptive, water repellent material when reduced to a fluid or fused state whereby the dyestuff can dissolve in the fused imaged portion to develop color which contrasts with the remainder of the coating corresponding to the non-imaged portion of the plate.
  • characteristic color development will not take place.
  • the imaged portion will become colored by the dissolved dyestuff for readability by contrast with the remainder.
  • Example 1 The following are examples of additional coating compositions which may be employed, as in Example 1, for application onto a suitable lithographic surface to produce a lithographic plate capable of being imaged by thermographic techniques:
  • EXAMPLE 3 15 parts by weight zinc palmitate 5 parts by weight aquawax 15 parts by weight alcohol parts by weight water
  • EXAMPLE 4 25 parts by weight shellac wax 5 parts by weight partially hydrolyzed polyvinyl acetate 14.6 parts by weight alcohol 55 parts by weight water 0.1 part by weight Oil Blue A dyestuff (Du Pont) 0.1 part by weight Oil Yellow ENC (American Cyanimid) 0.2 part by weight surface active agent In Example 4, the dyestuffs are in dispersion and therefore have a different (greenish) color value in the formed coating.
  • Du Pont 0.1 part by weight Oil Yellow ENC (American Cyanimid) 0.2 part by weight surface active agent
  • the wax in the fused portion of the coating acquires a distinctive blue color which enables the image to be read directly from the imaged plate before removal of the coating from the non-imaged portions.
  • the alcohol component in the coating compositions is not essential but it does assist in wetting out the powdered wax so that the powdered wax can be more easily and more uniformly dispersed in the aqueous coating composition. It also appears to help the binder wet out the wax particles so that a tougher coating can be produced on the lithographic surface.
  • the amount of alcohol such as methyl, ethyl, propyl, butyl, glycol and the like, can range from 0 to about 30 percent by weight of the diluent but it is preferred to make use of an amount within the range of to 20 percent by weight.
  • the non-imaged portions of the coating, corresponding to the unfused areas, can be removed by the etch used ordinarily in processing of an imaged lithographic plate for production of copies.
  • use can be made of other aqueous medium in which the binder system can be dissolved or redispersed and it is preferred to make use of an aqueous system containing an alcohol of the type previously described and preferably a polyhydric alcohol, such as glycerol, glycol, ethylene glycol and the like, to enhance wet-out and removal.
  • the coating formed on the plate should not be highly absorbent of infra-red radiations, otherwise the entire coating might be reduced to a fused state for image formation upon radiation of the original. While it is understood that some radiation absorption will ordinarily take place, use should be made of materials wherein the amount of absorpto-n would be insufiicient to cause an increase in temperature to the fused state of any of the components in the coating.
  • the infra-red ray absorbing-heat generating image may be applied directly to the surface of the coating or the plate for the development of a heat pattern upon radiation thereby thermographically to develop the corresponding image in the coating.
  • the original image may be provided on the plate surface by inscription, by typewriter ribbon, die impression or the like imaging means.
  • the imaged plate When the coating on the non-imaged portions has been removed, the imaged plate can be mounted in a conventional lithographic press for [operation in the usual manner to produce a number of inked copies.
  • the method of imaging a lithographic plate directly from an original in which the image contains a radiation absorbing-heat generating material comprising the steps of positioning the original in surface contact with the coated side of a lithographic plate in which the coating on the lithographic surface of the plate is formed of an ink receptive, water repellent imaging material which is reducible to a molten state at a temperature capable of being developed in the imaged areas of the original upon irradiation and which is dispersed in an aqueous separable binder, directing radiations onto the original whereby the radiations are absorbed in the imaged areas of the original in suflicient quantity for generation of a heat pattern which transfers to the adjacent coating to reduce the corresponding areas of the ink receptive, Water repellent imaging material to a fused state, and then treating the coating with an aqueous medium to remove the coating from the lithographic surface and leave fused imaging material on the underlying lithographic surface.
  • the method of imaging a lithographic offset master directly from an imaged portion in the original in which the original contains infra-red ray absorbing-heat generating material comprising the steps of positioning the original in surface contact with the coated side of a lithographic master in which the coating on the lithographic surface of the plate is formed of an ink receptive, water repellent, imaging material as a dispersed phase in an aqueous soluble binder and in which the ink rceptive, water repellent imaging material is reduced to a molten state at the temperature generated in and transferred from the imaged areas of the original upon irradiation with infrared, directing infra-red radiations at high concentration onto the original whereby the image absorbs infra-red in sufiicient quantities to generate a heat pattern to cause melting of the corresponding areas of the coating upon transfer of the heat pattern to define the imaged areas of the plate, and then treating the coating with an aqueous medium to remove the coating from the lithographic surface and leave
  • the coating includes a dyestuff which is soluble in the imaging material when reduced to a molten state and which becomes dissolved in the imaging material upon irradiation of the original whereby the fused areas of the coating acquire a contrasting color of the dyestuff by comparison with the unfused areas of the coating.

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GB11875/62A GB962054A (en) 1961-04-24 1962-03-28 Improvements in or relating to lithographic offset masters
FR893229A FR1319082A (fr) 1961-04-24 1962-04-04 Cliché offset thermographique, et procédé pour son utilisation
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US3559576A (en) * 1966-10-24 1971-02-02 Agfa Gevaert Nv Planographic reversed printing
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US4836106A (en) * 1987-10-30 1989-06-06 International Business Machines Corporation Direct offset master by resistive thermal printing
DE4211262B4 (de) * 1991-05-16 2008-08-14 Xerox Corp. Tintenzusammensetzung und Tintenstrahldruckverfahren
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US6063528A (en) * 1997-05-20 2000-05-16 Morgan; David A. Thermosensitive composition
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