US3736872A - Lithographic printing plate and process - Google Patents

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US3736872A
US3736872A US00103925A US3736872DA US3736872A US 3736872 A US3736872 A US 3736872A US 00103925 A US00103925 A US 00103925A US 3736872D A US3736872D A US 3736872DA US 3736872 A US3736872 A US 3736872A
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  • LITHOGRAPHIC PRINTING PLATE AND PROCESS lnventors Richard H. Martens; Ralph D. Zaifrann, both of Rochester, NY.
  • ABSTRACT A printing plate is prepared by coating on a support a lithographic layer comprising a self-hardening copolymer such as a copolymer of acrylamide and 2- acetoacetoxyethyl methacrylate, colloidal silica and titanium dioxide. Over the lithographic coating can be located a silver precipitating layer preferably comprising nickel sulfide and silver iodide.
  • An image is provided in the silver precipitating layer by diffusion transfer and treated with a thiol or similar sulfur containing material to improve the ink-water balance of the plate.
  • the nucleated lithographic layer is coated with a silver halide layer and processed to provide a silver image after which the silver halide layer is removed.
  • the invention is concerned with the preparation of printing plates and their use.
  • the invention relates to the formation of a lithographic surface using a self-hardening polymer and a mixture of pigments.
  • this invention relates to the formation by diffusion transfer of lithographic plates.
  • lithographic printing plates by using various light sensitive materials to prepare an image on a hydrophilic support.
  • Typical light sensitive materials include diazo resins, light sensitive silver halide emulsions, cinnamic acid esters, etc.
  • lithographic plates using these light sensitive materials to print from are unsatisfactory. For example, such plates exhibit relatively short press life and require methods of preparation which are quite complex.
  • One method of making a lithographic plate is to coat an unhardened silver halide emulsion on a suitable support.
  • the emulsion is developed using a tanning developer which hardens the emulsion image wise after which the remaining unhardened emulsion is removed by using warm water.
  • a crosslinking agent such as formaldehyde, dimethylol urea or similar hardening material
  • a silver precipitating or nucleated surface is provided on a lithographic surface which is suitable for forming a silver image by diffusion transfer.
  • Hepher et al. US. Pat. No. 3,161,508 describes preparing an aluminum lithographic printing plate by diffusion transfer.
  • the formation of a paper lithographic plate using conventional paper plates such as a crosslinked polymeric binder as described in the prior art has not been entirely satisfactory due to problems of slow inkup, blinding, etc.
  • a lithographic layer which is particularly useful comprises a self-hardenable polymeric material containing at least about 0.1 percent by weight of active methylene groups in aliphatic side chains, which contains a hydrophilic pigment mixture.
  • a particularly useful hydrophilic self-hardening polymer is a copolymer of acrylamide and 2-acetoacetoxyethyl methacrylate, containing a pigment mixture of colloidal silica and titanium dioxide. This coating composition is coated on a suitable support such as, for example, paper having thereon a polyethylene coating which has been electron bombarded.
  • a silver precipitating layer such as a gelatin description of nickel sulfide and silver iodide or the like.
  • An image is obtained on the precipitating layer by diffusion transfer by contacting against the silver precipitating surface an exposed silver halide emulsion in the presence of a silver halide developing agent and a silver halide solvent.
  • the resulting image is preferrably treated with a solution of an organic compound containing an oleophilic group in the molecule and being a compound which when brought into contact with the silver at ordinary room temperature becomes integrated to the surface of and only in the region of the silver and thereby renders the surface of the silver oleophilic by virtue of the oleophilic groups so that greasy printing inks adhere thereto.
  • a paper support is preferred.
  • the paper can be any conventional cellulosic paper support including those prepared from cotton, linen and wood (sulfate and sulfite pulp) and which supports are typical 5-60 pounds per 1,000 square foot papers.
  • the paper is preferably coated with a polymeric material in order to make it more resistant to wear on the press and also to prevent processing chemicals from being absorbed by the paper.
  • Particularly useful polymeric materials are polyolefins such as polyethylene which is employed as a coating on the paper support.
  • a polyolefin material which forms the surface can be coated over any support, typically on a thickness of about 0.3 to 5 mils.
  • particularly useful polyolefin materials include the olefin homoor copolymers prepared from alpha-olefins having two to 10 carbon atoms.
  • a coating may be applied by extrusion or hot melt coating techniques, as latexes, as solvent coatings, etc.
  • the polyolefin When the polyolefin is selfsupporting, it can be of any convenient thickness.
  • titanium dioxide is incorporated as a pigment in an amount of up to 25 percent, preferably 10-15 percent by weight of the resin.
  • Other pigments or dyes which may be useful include those commonly known as pigments or dyes for polymeric materials.
  • the polyolefin surface can be given an additional treatment when the polyolefin material such as polyethylene is extruded but this is not necessary to this invention. Shortly after extrusion, the polymeric material is contacted against a chilled roll which may be glossy,
  • the coating is placed on the support as a latex or solvent coating and then contacted against a hot glossy roll in order to provide a glossy or matte finish.
  • a latex coating may be applied to a support after which the coated support is subjected to heat such as by hot air impinging on the surface or from infrared lamps directed to the surface.
  • the polymeric surface may be given a treatment to improve the hydrophilic character of the surface to improve adhesion, but this is not necessary.
  • Electron bombardment of polymeric surfaces is conveniently carried out by means of a corona discharge.
  • the level of electron bombardment or similar surface treatment of the polymeric surface can be measured by the contact angle obtained when a drop of distilled water is placed on a level sample of the polymeric coating.
  • a contact angle is obtained which can be measured and utilized to determine the degree of hydrophilicity.
  • untreated polyethylene coated paper gives a contact angle of about 90.
  • a contact angle of preferably from about 40 to about 75 improves the adhesion of hydrophilic coatings and is highly desirable for coatings such as cellulose ester coatings, subbing coatings or the like.
  • the preferred contact angle is preferably less than 54 for subsequent coatings.
  • glasine paper is employed with polyolefin coated on each side followed by another sheet of glasine paper and an additional coat of polyolefin.
  • polyolefin may be coated on both sides of the paper support in order to improve the durability of the support and reduce the processing chemical absorption.
  • Cellulose esters may also be used for coating on a support such as paper and include cellulose esters which are obtained from organic acids having two to four carbon atoms including mixed esters such as cellu lose acetate butyrate, cellulose acetate propionate and the like. Particularly useful esters are those of lower aliphatic, preferably monocarboxylic acids, such as cellulose acetate, cellulose triacetate, cellulose butyrate and the like. Typical cellulose ester formulations are described in Fordyce et al. US. Pat. Nos. 2,492,977 and 2,492,978 issued Jan. 3, I950, Fordyce et al. US. Pat. No. 2,739,070 issued Mar. 20, 1965 and Fordyce et al. US. Pat. No. 2,607,704 issued Aug. 19, 1952.
  • the lithographic coating of this invention contains colloidal silica having a particle size between 7 to about 30 millimicrons.
  • the colloidal silica which can be used to form the pigment mixture of this invention contain silica particles of very small size.
  • the mean average size of the silica particles can be within a range of from about 7 millimicrons to about 30 millimicrons.
  • colloidal silica of less than about 7 millimicrons has not been commercially available, it is believed that the coating composition of this invention may be advantageously prepared from colloidal silica containing silica particles of a size even less than 7 millimicrons.
  • colloidal silicas are those which contain silica particles ranging in size from about 7 to 17 millimicrons. Such colloidal silicas are generally marked as a 30 percent silicon dioxide dispersion but the colloidal silica can be prepared containing a higher or lower percent silica.
  • the silica preferably comprises about 10 percent to about 50 percent by weight of the pigment mixture.
  • the pigment mixture comprises about 25 percent to about percent by weight of the total layer, solids basis.
  • the titanium dioxide is of pigment size and preferably has an average mean diameter of 0.3 p. and a range of about 0.1 p. to 0.6 p. It is preferably the anatase type since the anatase pigment provides a desirable white appearance to the lithographic layer.
  • Clays may be used in place of titanium dioxide provided they are of small size such as kaolin or china clays.
  • Other pigments which may be used with silica include calcium silicate, barium sulfate, etc. Mixtures may be used.
  • the self-hardening polymers which are particularly useful as the binder in the lithographic coating according to our invention are film-forming polymers containing at least about 0.l percent by weight of active methylene groups in aliphatic side chains.
  • a particularly effective class of copolymers useful for this invention is prepared by copolymerizing an acrylamide with an acrylic type ester having active methylene groups in the ester moiety in a substituent alpha to the carbonyl group.
  • Such compounds preferably contain the group:
  • the ethylenically unsaturated polymerizable monomers having the above formula can be prepared using any procedure suitable for this purpose. Polymers of this type are disclosed in Smith U.S. Pat. No. 3,488,708 issued Jan. 6, 1970.
  • the preferred copolymers contain from about 80 to 98 percent by weight acrylamide of a unit such as acrylamide, methacrylamide or the like and from about 20 to 2 percent by weight of the monomeric unit containing an active methylene group such as 2-acetoacetoxyethyl methacrylate.
  • the molecular weights of the copolymers are generally in the range of 5,000 to 500,000.
  • the coating composition is coated using any satisfactory coating method and has a contact angle as measured by water of less than 65.
  • Precipitating agents which are particularly useful for use in the receiving sheet for use in a black and white diffusion transfer process include nuclei which are useful as precipitating agents with a silver halide complex, including all of those which are commonly useful in the diffusion transfer process.
  • Nuclei which can be employed include silver precipitating agents known in the art such as sulfides, selenides, polysulfides, polyselenides, heavy metals, thiourea, stannous halides, heavy metal salts, fogged silver halide, Carey Lea silver, and complex salts of heavy metals with a compound such as thioacetamide, dithiooxamide and dithiobiuret.
  • Noble metal nuclei are particularly active and useful when formed by reducing a noble metal salt using a borohydride or hypophosphite in the presence of a colloid.
  • the metal nuclei can be prepared in the presence of a proteinaceous colloid such as gelatin and coated on the receiving sheet. The same or a different colloid may be added if desired. It will be appreciated that the coating composition generally contains not only nuclei, but also reaction products which are obtained from reducing the metal salt.
  • the nuclei or silver precipitating agent may be incorporated in the lithographic layer itself by adding a suitable silver precipitant to the coating composition including the silica, titanium dioxide, polymeric material, etc.
  • a suitable silver precipitant including the silica, titanium dioxide, polymeric material, etc.
  • colloids can be used as dispersing agents or as binders for the precipitating agents in the receiving layer. Any suitable colloids can be used. Particularly useful colloids are hydrophilic colloids which are used for binders in silver halide emulsions. Advantageously, they are coated in a range of about 55,000 mg/ft.
  • suitable colloids are gelatin, preferably coated at a level in the range of about 7-100 mg/ft, polymeric latices such as copoly(2-c hloroethyl-methacrylate-acrylic acid) preferably coated in the range of -350 mg/ft in a polymeric vehicle containing two components (1) polyvinyl alcohol, and (2) inter- 6 polymer of n-butylacrylate, 3-acryloyloxypropane-lsulfonic acid, sodium salt and 2-acetoacetoxyethyl methacrylate, in a preferred range of about 10-300 mg/ft
  • the precipitating agents can be formed in situ or can be applied by precipitating or evaporating a suitable precipitating agent on the surface.
  • the receiving layers of our invention may also have therein particles such as silica, bentonite, diatomaceous earth such as kieselguhr, powdered glass, micro crystalline asbestos and fullers earth.
  • colloids and colloidal particles of metal oxides such as titanium dioxide, colloidal alumina, coarse aluminum oxide, zirconium oxide and the like may be used with the nuclei in the receiving layers.
  • a silver halide emulsion is exposed to a light image after which it is contacted with a silver halide developing agent containing a silver halide complexing agent.
  • the exposed emulsion is developed in the light struck areas and the unexposed silver halide is complexed with the silver halide complexing agent after which the emulsion is contacted against a receiving sheet and the complex silver halide diffuses imagewise to the receiving sheet containing a silver precipitant.
  • Silver images produced photographically are customarily treated with an oleophilic compound which absorbs itself to the silver of the image area and improves greasy printing ink-water differential.
  • Particularly useful compounds are disclosed in Hepher et al U.S. Pat. No. 3,161,508 which specify various sulfur containing compounds which are particularly useful.
  • certain specific sulfur containing compounds are also disclosed.
  • silver images produced photographically can be converted by means of a bleaching or coating process or by reducers or intensifiers with the aid of oxidation baths into sparingly soluble heavy metal and/or silver salt images.
  • potassium ferricyanide is used, for example, for oxidizing the silver, whereby the silver image is converted into a ferricyanide which is precipitated partly as insoluble silver ferricyanide and partly as insoluble ferricyanide of other metals which are added to the baths in the form of salts.
  • Silver halide developing agents used for initiating development of the exposed sensitive element can be conventional types used for developing films or papers with the exception that a silver halide solvent or complexing agent such as sodium thiosulfate, sodium thiocyanate, ammonia or the like is present in the quantity required to form a soluble silver complex which diffuses imagewise to the receiving support.
  • concentration of developing agent and/or developing agent precursor employed is about 3 to about 320 mg/ft of support.
  • Developing agents and/or developing agents precursors can be employed in a viscous processing composition containing a thickener such as carboxymethyl cellulose or hydroxyethyl cellulose.
  • a thickener such as carboxymethyl cellulose or hydroxyethyl cellulose.
  • a typical developer composition is disclosed in US. Pat. No. 3,120,795 of Land et al. issued Feb. 11, 1964.
  • Developing agents and/or developing agent precursors can be employed alone or in combination with each other, as well as with auxiliary developing agents.
  • Suitable silver halide developing agents and developing agent precursors which can be employed include, for example, polyhydroxybenzenes, alkyl substituted hydroquinones, as exemplified by t-butyl hydroquinone, methyl hydroquinone and 2,5-dimethylhydroquinone, catechol and pyrogallol; chloro substituted hydroquinones such as chlorohydroquinone or dichlorohydroquinone; alkoxy substituted hydroquinones such as methoxy hydroquinone or ethoxy hydroquinone; aminophenol developing agents such as 2,4- diaminophenols and methylaminophenols.
  • Silver halide emulsions employed with lithographic layers and elements of this invention either in integral products or on separate supports can contain incorporated addenda, including chemical sensitizing and spectral sensitizing agents, coating agents, antifoggants and the like. They can also contain processing agents such as silver halide developing agents and/or developing agent precursors. Of course, the processing agents can be incorporated in a layer adjacent to the silver halide emulsion if desired.
  • the photographic emulsions employed can also be x-ray or other non-spectrally sensitized emulsions or they can contain spectral sensitizing dyes such as described in U.S. Pat. No. 2,526,632 of Brooker et al. issued Oct. 24, 1950 and U.S. Pat. No. 2,503,776 of Sprague issued Apr. 1 l, 1950.
  • Spectral sensitizers which can be used include cyanines, merocyanines, styryls and hemicyanines.
  • the photographic emulsions can contain various photographic addenda, particularly those known to be beneficial in photographic compositions.
  • Suitable photographic addenda include hardeners, e.g., those set forth in British Pat. 974,317; buffers which maintain the desired developing activity and/or pH level; coating aids; plasticizers, speed increasing addenda, such as amines, quaternary ammonium salts, sulfonium salts and alkylene oxide polymers; and various stabilizing agents, such as sodium sulfite.
  • the photographic silver salt emulsions can be chemically sensitized with compounds of the sulfur group such as sulfur, selenium and tellurium sensitizers, noble metal salts such as gold, or reduction sensitized with reducing agents or combinations of such materials.
  • photographic silver salts can be used in the practice of the invention. These include photographic silver halides such as silver iodide, silver bromide, silver chloride, as well as mixed halides such as silver bromoiodide, silver chloroiodide, silver chlorobromide and silver bromochloroiodide. Photographic silver salts which are not silver halides can also be employed such a silver salts of certain organic acids silver-dye salts or complexes, etc. 7
  • the photographic silver salts are typically contained in an emulsion layer comprising any binding materials suitable for'photographic purposes. These include natural and synthetic binding materials generally employed for this purpose, for example, gelatin, colloidal albumin, water-soluble vinyl polymers, mono and polysaccharides, cellulose derivatives, proteins, watersoluble polyacrylamides, polyvinyl pyrrolidone and the like, as well as mixtures of such binding agents.
  • binding materials suitable for'photographic purposes.
  • binding materials suitable for'photographic purposes include natural and synthetic binding materials generally employed for this purpose, for example, gelatin, colloidal albumin, water-soluble vinyl polymers, mono and polysaccharides, cellulose derivatives, proteins, watersoluble polyacrylamides, polyvinyl pyrrolidone and the like, as well as mixtures of such binding agents.
  • the elements can also contain releasing layers and/or antistatic layers (i.e., conducting layers).
  • Integral elements may be prepared by coating a silver halide emulsion over the nucleated layer or over the lithographic layer containing the silver precipitating agent.
  • the silver halide emulsion is coated over the layer comprising a colloid material which can be easily removed from the lithographic layer after a silver image has been formed on the lithographic layer or in the lithographic layer.
  • Typical diffusion transfer integral processes and products are described in U.S. Pat. No. 3,020,155 issued Feb. 6, 1962 to Yackel et al., U.S. Pat. No. 2,563,342 issued to Land, Aug. 7, 1951, U.S. Pat. No. 2,692,830 issued Oct.
  • EXAMPLE 1 The following coating composition is coated in an amount of 15 grams per square meter on a dry basis and drying is accomplished at 180 F on polyethylene coated paper which has been electron bombarded for preparing element 1.
  • lithographic layer is nucleated using the same nucleating composition as element I and coated at the same rate.
  • a lithographic element 111 is prepared having the following composition:
  • the coating is made on the same type of support as element I after electron bombardment of the polyethylene surface at the same rate. No additional nuclei coating is applied.
  • Tests are made by contacting the lithographic elements 1, II and III against an exposed developing silver halide emulsion having a silver halide solvent in the processing solution. Samples of each element are evaluated on a lithographic printing press. At this time the hardener free base (coating F, below) exhibits good inking characteristics and acceptable press run of more than 1000 impressions. Element II containing the hardener has very poor inking and is unacceptable for mottle.
  • Element 111 has slow ink-up and shows blinding after 200 copies.
  • A-G Another nucleating variation is identified by coatings A-G.
  • A, B and C represent silver iodide-nickel sulfide nuclei (1:1) (as disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 3,532,497) applied to hardener free lithographic base with an extrusion hopper at various coverages.
  • D through G are the same nuclei in gelatin applied with a gravure roll.
  • H represents element III with no additional nuclei coat. Results are given below in Table I.
  • EXAMPLE 2 An example similar to that of Example l is carried out in coatings A*D using two separate coating operations and in EH using a dual slide coater in which both the lithographic layer and the nuclei layer are coated in the same coating pass under the hoppers. The following data indicate the effectiveness of the resulting plates.
  • the coatings exhibit good inking characteristics on all phases single operation material (dual slide coated) and slightly better for startup inking than the two operation plates.
  • EXAMPLE 3 Integral elements are prepared by coating an unhardened silver chloride emulsion over the nucleated layer of each of the elements described in Example 1 indicated as elements I and II. After processing in a devel oper bath containing sodium thiosulfate, the unhardened emulsion is removed. However, in element II after one week at room temperature the emulsion is hardened so that it cannot be removed with warm water. The emulsion on element I, without the hardener, is removed after 5 months at room temperature. After treatment with a bleach containing potassium ferricyanide, the surface is treated with a solution of l-amino- Z-mercapto-S-heptadecyl-1,3,4-triazole, NaOH and propanol.
  • EXAMPLE 4 A lithographic element 1, as described in Example 1, without a nuclei coating is coated with a camera speed silver halide emulsion of the type described in Example 1 in U.S. Pat. No. 2,596,756. The plate is exposed in a reversing camera to a line image for a short exposure period. The exposed plate is activated in a caustic solution for 1% minutes rinsed with a water spray at 1 10 F and air dried. At this stage, the plate contains a dense silver image in slight relief on top of the lithographic layer. The plate is run on a lithographic press producing satisfactory copies.
  • a lithographic element I as described in Example 1, has a gelatin image placed on the unnucleated surface thereof by a silver gelatin transfer process as described in U.S. Pat. No. 2,596,756, wherein unhardened gelatin is transferred from a light sensitive sheet to a lithographic receiving sheet, after the emulsion layer is exposed and developed.
  • the image areas are transferred under pressure to a lithographic layer as described above.
  • the image is then treated with an image conditioner as disclosed in British Patent 934,691 to improve ink receptivity of the colloidal image portions and placed on a lithographic press to make satisfactory prints.
  • EXAMPLE 6 A lithographic element I without a nuclei layer, as described in Example 1, is placed in a typewriter employing a ribbon which provides an oleophilic typed image. Copy is typed employing the ribbon on the lithographic surface, after which the printing plate is used on a lithographic press. Satisfactory copies are provided.
  • EXAMPLE 7 A lithographic element I as described in Example 1 is coated with a hardened high-contrast silver chlorobromide negative emulsion having a melting point of 250 F coated to yield a silver coverage of 165 mg. of silver per square foot.
  • the element is exposed in a standard copy camera fitted with an image-reversing prism. It is processed in a hydroquinone type silver halide developer for two minutes at 68 F. After development, the plate is etchbleached in a solution of the following composition for 60 seconds:
  • the plate is then rinsed with water, swabbed with an image conditioner and run on a lithographic printing press.
  • ink receptive binders such as alkyl acrylate-acrylic acid copolymers, cellulose ether phthalate or cellulose acetate phthalate may incorporate such preferred ink absorbing pigments as barium sulfite, silica, calcium carbonite or zinc oxide.
  • binders as polyvinyl alcohol containing titanium dioxide may be used.
  • a lithographic element for use in diffusion transfer comprising a support having thereon a lithographic layer consisting essentially of an acrylamide copolymer having at least 0.1 percent by weight active methylene groups in aliphatic side chains, colloidal silica and a pigment.
  • An element of claim 1 having over the lithographic layer a silver precipitating layer.
  • said silver precipitating layer comprises a mixture of nickel sulfide and silver iodide.
  • An element of claim 1 having in said layer an elecphilic image area.
  • a lithographic element of claim 1 having over said layer a silver halide emulsion layer.
  • a photographic element of claim 4 having over said layer a silver halide emulsion layer.
  • An element of claim 1 including a silver precipitating agent.
  • An element of claim 1 having a silver precipitating layer comprising a mixture of nickel sulfide and silver iodide.
  • said lithographic layer comprises a copolymer of an acrylamide and 2- acetoacetoxyethyl methacrylate, colloidal silica and titanium dioxide.
  • copolymer comprises to 98 percent by weight acrylamide and about 20 to about 2 percent by weight 2- acetoacetoxyethyl methacrylate.

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