WO1999061248A1 - Procede de fabrication d'un cliche d'impression flexographique - Google Patents
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
- B41C—PROCESSES FOR THE MANUFACTURE OR REPRODUCTION OF PRINTING SURFACES
- B41C1/00—Forme preparation
- B41C1/02—Engraving; Heads therefor
- B41C1/04—Engraving; Heads therefor using heads controlled by an electric information signal
- B41C1/05—Heat-generating engraving heads, e.g. laser beam, electron beam
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- Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
- Y10—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
- Y10S—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
- Y10S430/00—Radiation imagery chemistry: process, composition, or product thereof
- Y10S430/146—Laser beam
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- the present invention relates to a method of manufacturing a flexographic printing plate.
- Such a plate comprises, in known manner, a printing form made of a material having a certain compressible character, thus facilitating the transfer of ink, from this printing form to flexible surfaces such as cardboard, paper, sheets. polyethylene, etc.
- This etching phase is followed by a step of exposing the photopolymer layer thus accessible through the etched layer, to ultraviolet light, then by a crosslinking phase of this photopolymer layer, which tends to polymerize. and to harden the zones having undergone ultraviolet radiation. Uncured areas are then removed.
- a method of manufacturing a flexographic printing plate in which a layer of a blank is subjected to a laser engraving phase, characterized in that this layer is made of a material having been polymerized before said laser etching phase and in that this etching phase is carried out by means of a laser operating at a wavelength between 200 and 400 nm.
- the method according to the invention makes it possible to achieve the objectives mentioned above. Indeed, it contributes to overcoming the presence of an upper layer capable of being etched by laser and added above the photopolymer material. According to the invention, the laser engraving face is produced directly on the polymerized material.
- this material is subjected to the laser etching phase after having been polymerized, and not before being subjected to such a polymerization, as was the case in the prior art.
- the phases of exposure to ultraviolet rays and of crosslinking which the process of the prior art involved are dispensed with. Compared to the latter, the invention is therefore notably advantageous in terms of cost, duration and in particular chemical pollution.
- the process of the invention is essentially mechanical, since it does not use the photochemical processing steps provided for by the process of the prior art mentioned above, but that physical machining of the polymerized material is carried out.
- the etching phase is carried out at a wavelength between 248 and 340 nm.
- the etching phase is carried out by means of an excimer laser.
- the etching phase is carried out by means of an Nd-YAG laser.
- an Nd-YAG laser since such a laser usually operates at wavelengths slightly greater than 1064 nm, the frequency of this laser should be brought back into the range appropriate for the implementation of the invention, using known techniques of harmonic generators which make it possible to double , triple or quadruple the frequency, so divide the emission wavelength by the same factor.
- the material polymerized before the etching phase is made of EPT (ethylene-propylene-terpolymer). According to other characteristics of the invention:
- the EPT material comprises between 55 and 65% by weight of ethylene and between 35 and 45% by weight of propylene;
- the EPT material is loaded between 20 and 40% by weight; the etching phase is carried out at a fluence of between 2 and 4 J / cm 2 , preferably between 2.5 and 3 J / cm 2 .
- Figure 1 is a schematic view illustrating an apparatus allowing the implementation of the process according to 1 invention
- Figures 2 to 4 are schematic views illustrating three successive phases of an embodiment of the method according to the invention.
- FIG. 1 illustrates an apparatus for implementing the method of the invention.
- This equipment comprises a laser 2, operating at a wavelength between 200 and 400 nm.
- a mask 4 with rectangular opening which selects the most homogeneous part of the beam delivered by the laser.
- a lens 6 is placed in the axis of this beam and allows the reproduction of the image of the mask on a blank 8 intended to form a printing plate for flexographic printing.
- the distance separating the lens 6 from the laser 2 can be modified so as to vary the surface density of energy, or fluence, present on the surface of the blank 8.
- this blank 8 comprises a lower layer 10 of mechanical support, made for example of MILAR (TM).
- This support layer 10 receives a polymerized layer 12, their mutual securing being for example ensured by pressing and / or gluing.
- the action of the laser on the polymerized layer 12 is shown in FIG. 3.
- the laser forms, by ablation at the face of this polymerized layer 12, opposite to the support layer 10, cutouts 14 in suitable locations.
- the depth of these cuts is, for example, between 500 and 1000 micrometers.
- the support layer 10 is separated from the polymerized layer 12, so that the latter then constitutes a flexographic printing plate 16 obtained in accordance with the invention.
- a photograph 16, represented in FIG. 4 is available immediately after the laser engraving phase, by comparison with the prior art in which such an engraving phase was followed by several exposure phases. with ultraviolet light, a polymerization phase, as well as solvent etching and stabilization phases.
- a translucent plate formed from an EPT or ethylene-propylene-terpolymer mixture is used, which conforms to the product sold by the company EXXON under the reference VISTALON 504.
- This EPT mixture is crosslinked at Percadox BC.
- This plate has a density of 1.01, an abrasion of 90 mm 3 under ION, a Shore A hardness of 65, a breaking strength of 100DaN / cm 2 , an elongation at break of 500% and has a substantially uniform thickness of about 2 mm. It is fixed to a support layer, similar to that designated by the reference 10 on all of the figures, produced in MILAR (TM) and having a thickness of approximately 0.1 mm.
- the blank described above is subjected to the action of an excimer laser of the LAMBDA PHYSIK LPX 220 type, the active medium of which is based on krypton fluoride and which emits a pulse of 20 at 248 nm. ns.
- the ablation depth as a function of fluence, namely the surface energy density present at the level of the polymerized layer intended to be etched. To do this, this layer is subjected to 200 shots of the laser described above, operating at a frequency of 10 hertz. Note that the ablation depth has a maximum for a fluence value of around 2.8 J / cm 2 .
- the mass removed at the end of the laser operation was measured. To do this, the laser mentioned above was used, with a fluence of 3.5 J / cm 2 . It was found that the mass removed by ablation was 10.21 micro-grams per shot, and that the corresponding volume was 0.0099 mm 3 .
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EP99922234A EP1082222B1 (fr) | 1998-05-27 | 1999-05-27 | Procede de fabrication d'un cliche d'impression flexographique |
DE69911402T DE69911402T2 (de) | 1998-05-27 | 1999-05-27 | Verfahren zur herstellung einer flexodruckform |
US09/701,211 US6551762B1 (en) | 1998-05-27 | 1999-05-27 | Process for manufacturing a flexographic printing plate |
AU39359/99A AU3935999A (en) | 1998-05-27 | 1999-05-27 | Method for making a flexographic print block |
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FR9806864A FR2779090B1 (fr) | 1998-05-27 | 1998-05-27 | Procede de fabrication d'un cliche d'impression flexographique |
FR98/06864 | 1998-05-27 |
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AU (1) | AU3935999A (fr) |
DE (1) | DE69911402T2 (fr) |
FR (1) | FR2779090B1 (fr) |
WO (1) | WO1999061248A1 (fr) |
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US4994344A (en) * | 1988-02-05 | 1991-02-19 | Basf Aktiengesellschaft | Sheetlike light-sensitive recording |
WO1993023252A1 (fr) * | 1992-05-11 | 1993-11-25 | E.I. Du Pont De Nemours And Company | Procede de realisation d'un cliche flexographique a couche unique |
DE19507827A1 (de) * | 1995-02-22 | 1996-08-29 | Hartmut Frerichs | Verfahren zur Herstellung einer Druckform für den Offset- oder Tiefdruck |
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FR2779090B1 (fr) | 2000-07-13 |
EP1082222A1 (fr) | 2001-03-14 |
FR2779090A1 (fr) | 1999-12-03 |
DE69911402T2 (de) | 2004-07-01 |
AU3935999A (en) | 1999-12-13 |
DE69911402D1 (de) | 2003-10-23 |
EP1082222B1 (fr) | 2003-09-17 |
US6551762B1 (en) | 2003-04-22 |
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