WO2007045515A1 - Negative working, heat-sensitive lithographic printing plate precursor - Google Patents
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- the present invention relates to a heat-sensitive, negative working lithographic printing plate precursor.
- Lithographic printing presses use a so-called printing master such as a printing plate which is mounted on a cylinder of the printing press.
- the master carries a lithographic image on its surface and a print is obtained by applying ink to said image and then transferring the ink from the master onto a receiver material, which is typically paper.
- ink as well as an aqueous fountain solution (also called dampening liquid) are supplied to the lithographic image which consists of oleophilic (or hydrophobic, i.e. ink- accepting, water-repelling) areas as well as hydrophilic (or oleophobic, i.e. water-accepting, ink-repelling) areas.
- driographic printing the lithographic image consists of ink- accepting and ink-abhesive (ink-repelling) areas and during driographic printing, only ink is supplied to the master.
- Printing masters are generally obtained by the image-wise exposure and processing of an imaging material called plate precursor.
- plate precursor an imaging material
- heat-sensitive printing plate precursors have become very popular in the late 1990s.
- thermal materials offer the advantage of daylight stability and are especially used in the so-called computer-to-plate method wherein the plate precursor is directly exposed, i.e. without the use of a film mask.
- the material is exposed to heat or to infrared light and the generated heat triggers a (physico-) chemical process, such as ablation, polymerization, insolubilization by crosslinking of a polymer, heat- induced solubilization, or by particle coagulation of a thermoplastic polymer latex.
- a chemical process such as ablation, polymerization, insolubilization by crosslinking of a polymer, heat- induced solubilization, or by particle coagulation of a thermoplastic polymer latex.
- the solubility differential leads to the removal of the non-image (non-printing) areas of the coating, thereby revealing the hydrophilic support, while the image (printing) areas of the coating remain on the support.
- Negative working embodiments of such thermal materials often require a preheat step between exposure and development as described in e.g. EP-A 625,728.
- Negative working plate precursors which do not require a pre- heat step may contain an image-recording layer that works by heat- induced particle coalescence of a thermoplastic polymer latex, as described in e.g. EP-A's 770 494, 770 495, 770 496 and 770 497.
- EP-A 1 342 568 a similar plate precursor is developed with a gum solution and in unpublished EP-A's no. 04103245, 04103247 and 04103248, all filed on 8 July 2004, development is achieved by means of an alkaline solution.
- EP 1 356 926 discloses a negative-working lithographic printing plate precursor comprising on a grained and anodized aluminum support having a surface roughness expressed as arithmetical mean center-line roughness Ra less than 0.45 mm, a heat-sensitive coating comprising hydrophobic thermoplastic polymer particles.
- a lithographic printing plate precursor comprising on a hydrophilic support an image-forming layer containing a polymerizable compound, an initator and a compound containing a functional group having an interaction with the surface of said hydrophilic support is disclosed in EP 1 500 498.
- EP 1 155 820 discloses a printing plate comprising on a support an undercoating layer, a first layer containing a polymer soluble in an alkaline aqueous solution, and a second layer containing a cyanine dye as an infrared absorbing agent and a cross-linking or polymeric compound which forms a covalent bond by action of light and/or heat and thereby lowers solubility of said second layer in an alkaline developing liquid.
- EP 1 106 381 discloses a printing plate precursor comprising on a grained and anodized aluminium substrate having an average roughness Ra of 0.5 mm or less and/or micropores having a pore
- WO 2003/010006 and WO 2004/066029 discloses a printing plate precursor comprising on a hydrophilic lithographic base a coating comprising uncoalesced particles of hydrophobic thermoplastic polymer and a non-crosslinkable aqueous-soluble composition which is capable of facilitating the removal of the unexposed portions of said coating in an aqueous developing solution.
- non-crosslinkable aqueous-soluble compositions include inorganic salts, organic bases, organic acids and/or metal complexes.
- point defects may be visible throughout the surface of the coating and have varying dimensions; they are believed to be caused by local coagulation of latex particles.
- the image areas as well as the non-image areas may contain these point defects.
- these spots are not always completely removed and may result in toning at the non-image areas (ink acceptance in the non-image areas) .
- Especially high sensitivity plates which comprise latex particles that are only weakly stabilized and thus coalesce readily i.e. upon exposure at a low energy density, tend to show this problem of point defects.
- thermoplastic polymer particles comprising on a grained and anodized aluminium support a coating comprising hydrophobic thermoplastic polymer particles, a hydrophilic binder and an organic compound characterized in that said organic compound comprises at least one phosphonic acid group or at least one phosphoric acid group or a salt thereof.
- the number and size of point defects present in the coating of a precursor comprising hydrophobic latex particles are highly reduced when said coating comprises an organic compound comprising at least one phosphonic acid group or at least one phosphoric acid group or a salt thereof.
- a precursor comprising hydrophobic latex particles and an organic compound comprising at least one phosphonic acid group or at least one phosphoric acid group or a salt thereof also improves the shelf life of said precursor .
- the organic compound is preferably represented by the following formula I : 1
- n 0 or 1;
- R and R independently represent hydrogen, an optionally substituted straight, branched, cyclic or heterocyclic alkyl group having upto 8 carbon atoms, a halogen, a hydroxyl group, an optionally substituted aryl or heteroaryl group;
- R represents an optionally substituted straight, branched, cyclic or heterocyclic alkyl group having upto 8 carbon atoms, a halogen, a hydroxyl group, an optionally substituted aryl or heteroaryl group, a carboxyl group, a phosphonic acid group, a phosphoric acid group, a sulphuric acid group or a sulfonic acid group .
- the coating of the printing plate precursor of the present invention comprises hydrophobic thermoplastic particles.
- the coating may comprise one or more layer (s) and the layer comprising the hydrophobic thermoplastic particles is referred to herein as 'image- recording layer'.
- the hydrophobic particles preferably have a number average particle diameter below 200 nm, more preferably between 10 and 100 nm. In a specific embodiment, the average particle size is comprised between 35 nm and 70 nm, more preferably between 40 nm and 65 nm.
- the particle size is defined herein as the particle diameter, measured by Photon Correlation Spectrometry, also known as Quasi- Elastic or Dynamic Light-Scattering.
- the amount of hydrophobic thermoplastic polymer particles contained in the coating is preferably between 20 and 90 percent by weight (wt.%), relative to the weight of all the components in the coating. In a preferred embodiment, the amount of hydrophobic thermoplastic polymer particles present in coating is at least 45 wt.% and more preferably at least 50 wt.%. An amount between 50 and 85 wt.% produces excellent results.
- thermoplastic polymer particles which are present in the coating are preferably selected from polyethylene, poly (vinyl) chloride, polymethyl (meth) acrylate , polyethyl (meth) acrylate, poyvinylidene chloride, poly (meth) acrylonitrile, polyvinylcarbazole, polystyrene or copolymers thereof.
- the thermoplastic polymer particles comprise polystyrene or derivatives thereof, mixtures comprising polystyrene and poly (meth) acrylonitrile or derivatives thereof, or copolymers comprising polystyrene and poly (meth) acrylonitrile or derivatives thereof.
- the latter copolymers may comprise at least 50% by weight of polystyrene, and more preferably at least 65% by weight of polystyrene.
- the thermoplastic polymer particles preferably comprise at least 5% by weight of nitrogen containing units as described in EP 1,219,416 , more preferably at least 30% by weight of nitrogen containing units, such as (meth) acrylonitrile .
- the thermoplastic polymer particles consist essentially of styrene and acrylonitrile units in a weight ratio between 1:1 and 5:1 (styrene : acrylonitrile) , e.g. in a 2:1 ratio.
- the weight average molecular weight of the thermoplastic polymer particles may range from 5,000 to 1,000,000 g/mol .
- the hydrophobic thermoplastic polymer particles can be prepared by addition polymerization or by condensation polymerization. They are preferably applied onto the lithographic base in the form of a dispersion in an aqueous coating liquid.
- These water based dispersions can be prepared by polymerization in a water-based system e.g. by free-radical emulsion polymerization as described in US 3,476,937 or EP 1,217,010 or by means of dispersing techniques of the water-insoluble polymers into water.
- Another method for preparing an aqueous dispersion of the thermoplastic polymer particles comprises: dissolving the hydrophobic thermoplastic polymer in an organic water immiscible solvent, dispersing the thus obtained solution in water or in an aqueous medium and removing the organic solvent by evaporation.
- Emulsion polymerization is typically carried out through controlled addition of several components - i.e. vinyl monomers, surfactants (dispersion aids) , initiators and optionally other components such as buffers or protective colloids - to a continuous medium, usually water.
- the resulting polymer of the emulsion polymerization is a dispersion of discrete particles in water.
- the surfactants or dispersion aids which are present in the reaction medium have a multiple role in the emulsion polymerization: (i) they reduce the interfacial tension between the monomers and the aqueous phase, (ii) they provide reaction sites through micelle formation in which the polymerization occurs and (iii) they stabilize the growing polymer particles and ultimately the latex emulsion.
- the surfactants are absorbed at the water/polymer interface and thereby prevent coagulation of the fine polymer particles. Both non-ionic and anionic surfactants are preferably used in emulsion polymerization. Anionic surfactants are absorbed on the polymer particle and surround the particle with a charged double layer deriving from their anionic end groups and the positively charged counterions .
- This double layer on the surface of the polymer particles provides an energy barrier which stabilizes the emulsion or in other words which prevents coagulation of the particles.
- Emulsions stabilized with anionic surfactants are however sensitive to the presence of salts as salts will contract said double layer surrounding the latex particles resulting in a reduced latex stability.
- the hydrophobic thermoplastic particles used in the present invention are preferably stabilized with an anionic dispersion aid. In the coating, the anionic dispersion aid may be present in its protonated form.
- the dispersion aid is preferably an organic compound comprising a sulphate, sulphonate, phosphate or carboxylate group and may be represented by R a -S ⁇ 4 ⁇ X + , R -SO3 " X + , R C -P ⁇ 4H ⁇ X + or R -C00 ⁇ X + wherein R , R , R and R independently represent a straight or branched alkyl group having at least 10 carbon atoms, an aryl or heteroaryl group substituted with at least one straight or branched alkyl group having at least 10 carbon atoms or a polyether group which comprises at least one straight or branched alkyl group having at least 10 carbon such as an alkyl substituted polyalkylene-oxide group, and X represents a cation such as Na or NH4 .
- the polyalkylene-oxide group may comprises a plurality of alkylene-oxide recurring units of the formula -C n H2n ⁇ O- wherein n is preferably an integer in the range 2 to 5.
- Preferred alkylene-oxide recurring units are typically ethylene oxide, propylene oxide or mixtures thereof.
- the number of the recurring units range preferably between 2 and 10 units, more preferably between 2 and 7 units, and preferably less than 100, more preferably less than 60.
- the latex dispersion is stabilized with an organic compound comprising a carboxylate group.
- anionic dispersion aids include sodium lauryl sulphate, sodium lauryl ether sulphate, sodium dodecylbenzene sulphonate, sodium lauryl phosphate and sodium lauryl ether ethylene oxide 6 carboxylate; suitable non-ionic dispersion aids are for example ethoxylated lauryl alcohol and ethoxylated octylphenol . According to the present invention it was surpringly found that the addition of an organic compound comprising at least one phosphonic acid group or phosphoric acid group or a salt thereof to the coating, significantly reduces the size and number of point defects occurring on the surface of a coated grained and anodized aluminum support.
- Possible forms of interaction between said compound and these Al ions may be for example formation of ionic bonds, covalent- co ⁇ rdination bonds such as complex formation or other.
- the organic compound comprising a phosphonate group is present
- a printing plate precursor comprising a coating comprising latex particles which are stabilized with a dispersion aid having a carboxylate group and the organic compound according to the present invention is higher compared to a coating comprising another anionic dispersion aid or a non-ionic disperion aid as described above.
- organic compound of the present invention is represented by the following formula I:
- n 0 or 1;
- R and R independently represent hydrogen, an optionally substituted straight, branched, cyclic or heterocyclic alkyl group having upto 8 carbon atoms, a halogen, a hydroxyl group, an optionally substituted aryl or heteroaryl group;
- R represents an optionally substituted straight, branched, cyclic or heterocyclic alkyl group having upto 8 carbon atoms, a halogen, a hydroxyl group, an optionally substituted aryl or heteroaryl group, a carboxyl group, a phosphonic acid group, a phosphoric acid group, a sulphuric acid group or a sulphonic acid group.
- the optional substituents present on the straight, branched, cyclic or heterocyclic alkyl group or on the aryl or heteroaryl group represent a halogen such as a chlorine or bromine atom, a hydroxyl group, an amino group, a (di) alkylamino group, an alkoxy group, a carboxyl group, a sulphonic acid group, a sulphuric acid group, phosphoric acid group and a phosphonic acid group.
- the aryl or heteroaryl group may further comprise an alkyl group as optional substituent .
- the organic compound compound is represented by formula II:
- R and R independently represent hydrogen, an optionally substituted straight, branched, cyclic or heterocyclic alkyl group having upto 8 carbon atoms, a halogen, a hydroxyl group, an optionally substituted aryl or heteroaryl group.
- the optional substituents present on the straight, branched or cyclic or heterocyclic alkyl group or on the aryl or heteroaryl group represent a halogen such as a chlorine or bromine atom, a hydroxyl group, an amino group, a (di) alkylamino group, an alkoxy group, a carboxyl group, a sulphonic acid group, a sulphuric acid group, a phosphoric acid group and a phosphonic acid group.
- the aryl or heteroaryl group may further comprise an alkyl group as optional substituent .
- organic compound compound is represented by formula III:
- 6 R independently represent hydrogen, an optionally substituted straight, branched, cyclic or heterocyclic alkyl group or an optionally substituted aryl or heteroaryl group.
- the optional substituents present on the straight, branched or cyclic or heterocyclic alkyl group or on the aryl or heteroaryl group represent a halogen such as a chlorine or bromine atom, a hydroxyl group, an amino group, a (di) alkylamino group, an alkoxy group, a carboxyl group, a sulphonic acid group, a sulphuric acid group, phosphoric acid group and a phosphonic acid group.
- the aryl or heteroaryl group may further comprise an alkyl group as optional substituent .
- the image-recording layer further comprises a hydrophilic binder which is preferably soluble in an aqueous developer having a pH ⁇ 10.
- a hydrophilic binder which is preferably soluble in an aqueous developer having a pH ⁇ 10.
- suitable hydrophilic binders are homopolymers and copolymers of vinyl alcohol, acrylamide, methylol acrylamide, methylol methacrylamide, acrylic acid, methacrylic acid, hydroxyethyl acrylate, hydroxyethyl methacrylate and maleic anhydride/vinylmethylether copolymers .
- the support of the lithographic printing plate precursor is a grained and anodized aluminum support.
- the support may be a sheet- like material such as a plate or it may be a cylindrical element such as a sleeve which can be slid around a print cylinder of a printing press.
- the aluminum is preferably grained by electrochemical graining, and anodized by means of anodizing techniques employing phosphoric acid or a sulphuric acid/phosphoric acid mixture. Methods of both graining and anodization of aluminum are very well known in the art.
- both the adhesion of the printing image and the wetting characteristics of the non-image areas are improved.
- different type of grains can be obtained.
- the aluminum support By anodising the aluminum support, its abrasion resistance and hydrophilic nature are improved.
- the microstructure as well as the thickness of the AI2O3 layer are determined by the anodising step,
- the grained and anodized aluminum support may be post-treated to improve the hydrophilic properties of its surface.
- the aluminum oxide surface may be silicated by treating its surface with a sodium silicate solution at elevated temperature, e.g. 95 0 C.
- a treatment may be applied which involves treating the aluminum oxide surface with a solution that may further contain an inorganic fluoride.
- the aluminum oxide surface may be rinsed with an organic acid and/or salt thereof, e.g. carboxylic acids, hydrocarboxylic acids, sulphonic acids or phosphonic acids, or their salts, e.g. succinates, s, phosphonates, sulphates, and sulphonates .
- organic acid and/or salt thereof e.g. carboxylic acids, hydrocarboxylic acids, sulphonic acids or phosphonic acids, or their salts, e.g. succinates, s, phosphonates, sulphates, and sulphonates .
- a citric acid or citrate solution is preferred. This treatment may be carried out at room temperature or may be carried out at a slightly elevated temperature of about 30 0 C to 50 0 C.
- a further interesting treatment involves rinsing the aluminum oxide surface with a bicarbonate solution.
- the aluminum oxide surface may be treated with polyvinylphosphonic acid, polyvinylmethylphosphonic acid, phosphoric acid esters of polyvinyl alcohol, polyvinylsulfonic acid, polyvinylbenzenesulfonic acid, sulfuric acid esters of polyvinyl alcohol, and acetals of polyvinyl alcohols formed by reaction with a sulfonated aliphatic aldehyde.
- the grained and anodized lithographic support is post treated with a polymer containing acrylic acid monomeric units.
- the amount of acrylic acid monomeric units in the polymer is preferably at least 30 mol%, more preferably at least 50 mol%, most preferred at least 75 mol%.
- the best results in terms of point defects are obtained with a polymer consisting essentially of acrylic acid monomeric units.
- An example of a suitable polymer containing acrylic acid monomeric units is GLASCOL E15, polyacrylic acid commercially available from ALLIED COLLOID MANUFACTURING.
- An optimal ratio between pore diameter of the surface of the aluminium support and the average particle size of the hydrophobic thermoplastic particles may enhance the press life of the printing plate and may improve the toning behaviour of the prints .
- This ratio of the average pore diameter of the surface of the aluminium support to the average particle size of the thermoplastic particles present in the image-recording layer of the coating preferably ranges from 0.05:1 to 0.8:1, more preferably from 0.10:1 to 0.35:1.
- the coating preferably also contains a compound which absorbs infrared light and converts the absorbed energy into heat.
- the amount of infrared absorbing agent in the coating is preferably between 0.25 and 25.0 % by weight, more preferably between 0.5 and 20.0 % by weight. In a preferred embodiment, its concentration is at least 6 % by weight.
- the infrared absorbing compound can be present in the image-recording layer and/or an optional other layer.
- Preferred IR absorbing compounds are dyes such as cyanine, merocyanine, indoaniline, oxonol, pyrilium and squarilium dyes or pigments such as carbon black. Examples of suitable IR absorbers are described in e.g. EP-As 823327, 978376, 1029667, 1053868, 1093934; WO 97/39894 and 00/29214.
- a preferred compound is the following cyanine dye IR-I or a suitable salt thereof:
- the protective layer generally comprises at least one water-soluble polymeric binder, such as polyvinyl alcohol, polyvinylpyrrolidone, partially hydrolyzed polyvinyl acetates, gelatin, carbohydrates or hydroxyethylcellulose, and can be produced in any known manner such as from an aqueous solution or dispersion which may, if required, contain small amounts, i.e. less than 5% by weight, based on the total weight of the coating solvents for the protective layer, of organic solvents.
- the thickness of the protective layer can suitably be any amount, advantageously up to 5.0 ⁇ m, preferably from 0.05 to 3.0 ⁇ m, particularly preferably from 0.10 to 1.0 ⁇ m.
- the coating may in addition to the image-recording layer also contain one or more additional layer (s) .
- additional layer i.e. an optional light-absorbing layer comprising one or more compounds that are capable of converting infrared light into heat and/or a protective layer such as e.g. a covering layer which is removed during processing - the coating may further for example comprise an adhesion-improving layer between the image-recording layer and the support.
- the coating may further contain additional ingredients .
- additional ingredients may be present in the image-recording layer or in on optional other layer.
- additional binders polymer particles such as matting agents and spacers, surfactants such as perfluoro surfactants, silicon or titanium dioxide particles, development inhibitors, development accelerators or colorants are well-known components of lithographic coatings.
- colorants such as dyes or pigments which provide a visible color to the coating and remain in the exposed areas of the coating after the processing step, are advantageous.
- the image-areas which are not removed during the processing step form a visible image on the printing plate and examination of the developed printing plate already at this stage becomes feasible.
- contrast dyes are the amino-substituted tri- or diarylmethane dyes, e.g. crystal violet, methyl violet, victoria pure blue, flexoblau 630, basonylblau 640, auramine and malachite green. Also the dyes which are discussed in depth in the detailed description of EP-A 400,706 are suitable contrast dyes. Dyes which, combined with specific additives, only slightly color the coating but which become intensively colored after exposure, are also of interest.
- the printing plate precursor of the present invention can be image-wise exposed directly with heat, e.g. by means of a thermal head, or indirectly by infrared light, preferably near infrared light.
- the infrared light is preferably converted into heat by an IR light absorbing compound as discussed above.
- the heat-sensitive lithographic printing plate precursor of the present invention is preferably not sensitive to visible light.
- the coating is not sensitive to ambient daylight, i.e. visible (400-750 nm) and near UV light (300-400 ran) at an intensity and exposure time corresponding to normal working conditions so that the material can be handled without the need for a safe light environment.
- the printing plate precursors of the present invention can be exposed to infrared light by means of e.g. LEDs or an infrared laser.
- the light used for the exposure is a laser emitting near infrared light having a wavelength in the range from about 700 to about 1500 nm, e.g. a semiconductor laser diode, a Nd: YAG or a Nd: YLF laser.
- the required laser power depends on the sensitivity of the image-recording layer, the pixel dwell time of the laser beam, which is determined by the spot diameter (typical
- ITD plate- setters for thermal plates are typically characterized by a very high scan speed up to 1500 m/sec and may require a laser power of several Watts.
- the Agfa Galileo T (trademark of Agfa Gevaert N. V.
- XTD plate-setters for thermal plates having a typical laser power from about 20 mW to about 500 mW operate at a lower scan speed, e.g. from 0.1 to 20 m/sec.
- the Creo Trendsetter plate-setter family (trademark of Creo) and the Agfa Xcalibur plate-setter family (trademark of Agfa Gevaert N. V. ) both make use of the XTD-technology. Due to the heat generated during the exposure step, the hydrophobic thermoplastic polymer particles fuse or coagulate so as to form a hydrophobic phase which corresponds to the printing areas of the printing plate.
- Coagulation may result from heat-induced coalescence, softening or melting of the thermoplastic polymer particles.
- the temperature should be sufficiently below the decomposition temperature of the polymer particles.
- the coagulation temperature is at least 10 0 C below the temperature at which the decomposition of the polymer particles occurs.
- the coagulation temperature is preferably higher than 5O 0 C, more preferably above 100 0 C.
- the precursor can be developed by means of a suitable processing liquid.
- the non-exposed areas of the image-recording layer are removed without essentially removing the exposed areas, i.e. without affecting the exposed areas to an extent that renders the ink-acceptance of the exposed areas unacceptable.
- the processing liquid can be applied to the plate e.g. by rubbing in with an impregnated pad, by dipping, (spin-) coating, spraying, pouring-on, either by hand or in an automatic processing apparatus.
- the treatment with a processing liquid may be combined with mechanical rubbing, e.g. by a rotating brush.
- the developed plate precursor can, if required, be post-treated with rinse water, a suitable correcting agent or preservative as known in the art.
- any water-soluble protective layer present is preferably also removed.
- the printing plate precursor can, after exposure, be mounted on a printing press and be developed on-press by supplying ink and/or fountain to the precursor.
- Suitable processing liquids are plain water or aqueous solutions, e.g. a gumming solution or an alkaline solution.
- the gum solution which can be used in the development step is typically an aqueous liquid which comprises one or more surface protective compounds that are capable of protecting the lithographic image of a printing plate against contamination or damaging. Suitable examples of such compounds are film-forming hydrophilic polymers or surfactants.
- the gum solution has preferably a pH from 4 to 10, more preferably from 5 to 8. Preferred gum solutions are described in EP 1,342,568.
- a preferred developer solution is a developer with a pH of at least 10, more preferably at least 11, most preferably at least 12.
- Preferred developer solutions are buffer solutions such as for example silicate-based developers or developer solutions comprising buffers.
- Silicate-based developers which have a ratio of silicon dioxide to alkali metal oxide of at least 1 are advantageous because they ensure that the alumina layer (if present) of the substrate is not damaged.
- Preferred alkali metal oxides include Na 2 O and K 2 O, and mixtures thereof.
- a particularly preferred silicate- based developer solution is a developer solution comprising sodium or potassium metasilicate, i.e. a silicate where the ratio of silicon dioxide to alkali metal oxide is 1.
- the developer may optionally contain further components, such as buffer substances, complexing agents, antifoams, organic solvents in small amounts, corrosion inhibitors, dyes, surfactants and/or hydrotropic agents as known in the art .
- the development is preferably carried out at temperatures of from 20 to 40 0 C in automated processing units as customary in the art.
- alkali metal silicate solutions having alkali metal contents of from 0.6 to 2.0 mol/1 can suitably be used. These solutions may have the same silica/alkali metal oxide ratio as the developer (generally, however, it is lower) and likewise optionally contain further additives .
- the required amounts of regenerated material must be tailored to the developing apparatuses used, daily plate throughputs, image areas, etc. and are in general from 1 to 50 ml per square meter of plate precursor.
- the addition of replenisher can be regulated, for example, by measuring the conductivity of the developer as described in EP-A 0,556,690.
- the development step may be followed by a rinsing step and/or a gumming step.
- the gumming step involves post-treatment of the lithographic printing plate with a gum solution.
- a gum solution is typically an aqueous liquid which comprises one or more surface protective compounds that are capable of protecting the lithographic image of a printing plate against contamination or damaging. Suitable examples of such compounds are film- forming hydrophilic polymers or surfactants.
- the plate precursor can, if required, be post-treated with a suitable correcting agent or preservative as known in the art.
- the layer can be briefly heated to elevated temperatures (“baking") .
- the plate can be dried before baking or is dried during the baking process itself.
- the plate can be heated at a temperature which is higher than the glass transition temperature of the thermoplastic particles, e.g. between 100 0 C and 23O 0 C for a period of 40 minutes to 5 minutes.
- a preferred baking temperature is above 6O 0 C.
- the exposed and developed plates can be baked at a temperature of 230 0 C for 5 minutes, at a temperature of 150 0 C for 10 minutes or at a temperature of 12O 0 C for 30 minutes. Baking can be done in conventional hot air ovens or by irradiation with lamps emitting in the infrared or ultraviolet spectrum. As a result of this baking step, the resistance of the printing plate to plate cleaners, correction agents and UV-curable printing inks increases.
- Such a thermal post- treatment is described, inter alia, in DE 1,447,963 and GB 1,154,749.
- the printing plate thus obtained can be used for conventional, so-called wet offset printing, in which ink and an aqueous dampening liquid is supplied to the plate.
- Another suitable printing method uses so-called single-fluid ink without a dampening liquid.
- Suitable single-fluid inks have been described in US 4,045,232; US 4,981,517 and US 6,140,392.
- the single-fluid ink comprises an ink phase, also called the hydrophobic or oleophilic phase, and a polyol phase as described in WO 00/32705. Examples .
- a 0.30 mm thick aluminum foil was degreased by immersing the foil in an aqueous solution containing 40 g/1 of sodium hydroxide at 60 0 C for 8 seconds and rinsed with demineralized water for 2 seconds.
- the foil was then electrochemically grained during 15 seconds using an alternating current in an aqueous solution containing 12 g/1 of hydrochloric acid and 38 g/1 of aluminum sulfate (18-hydrate) at a temperature of 33°C and a current density
- the aluminum foil was then desmutted by etching with an aqueous solution containing 155 g/1 of sulfuric acid at 70 0 C for 4 seconds and rinsed with demineralized water at 25°C for 2 seconds.
- the foil was subsequently subjected to anodic oxidation during 13 seconds in an aqueous solution containing 155 g/1 of sulfuric acid at a
- the support thus obtained has a surface roughness Ra of
- the printing plate precursors PPP-I to PPP-5 were produced by applying a coating onto the above described lithographic support.
- composition of the dry coating (mg/m
- weight ratio 60/40 stabilized with an anionic wetting agent
- average particle size of 50 run measured with a PL- PSDA Particle Size Distribution Analyzer, commercially available from Polymer Laboratories;
- the printing plate precursors PPP-I to PPP-5 were inspected for point defects by visual evaluation.
- the inspection procedure was the following:
- level I a point defect visible with the eye
- level II a point defect only visible upon 8 X magnification.
- Table 2 number and size of point defects.
- the support was prepared as in Example 1
- the printing plate precursors PPP-6 to PPP-IO were produced by applying a coating onto the above described lithographic support.
- the coating was applied from an aqueous coating solution, dried and the layer thus obtained had a composition as defined in Table 3. Before coating, the pH of the coating solution was adjusted to 3.5.
- composition of the dry coating (mg/m ).
- weight ratio 60/40 stabilized with an anionic wetting agent
- average particle size of 50 run measured with a PL-PSDA Particle Size Distribution Analyzer, commercially available from Polymer Laboratories
- Pigment available from Cabot Corporation added as 5% aqueous dispersion (modified Cu-phtalacyanine) ;
- the plate precursors 6 - 10 were exposed with a Creo Trendsetter 2344T (40W) (plate-setter, trademark from Creo, Burnaby,
- the plate precursors were processed in an Agfa Clean Out Unit 80 (trademark from Agfa-Gevaert) , operating at a speed of 1.1 m/min and at 22°C, using Agfa RC520 as developer solution (trademark from Agfa-Gevaert) .
- Dmin values were measured on the non-image areas of the obtained printing plates and are summarized in Table 4.
- the printing plates were aged in an oven for 7 days at 35°C and a RH value of 80%. After the aging test, the printing plates were processed (see above) and again Dmin was measured at the non-image areas.
- ⁇ (Dmin) is a measure of shelf life; the smaller the difference, the better the shelf life.
- ⁇ (Dmin) is for the invention printing plates 7 - 10 much smaller compared to the reference printing plate 6 indicating an improved shelf life for the plates comprising the organic compound of the present invention.
- Dmin is measured with a Gretag Macbeth densitometer Type D19C (available from Gretag Macbeth AG) .
- Table 4 shelf life results.
- ⁇ (Dmin) is a measure of shelf life: the lower the value the better the shelf life.
- the support was prepared as in Example 1.
- the printing plate precursors PPP-Il to PPP-14 were produced by applying a coating onto the above described lithographic support.
- the coating was applied from an aqueous coating solution, dried and the layer thus obtained had a composition as defined in Table 5. Before coating, the pH of the coating solution was adjusted to 3.6. Table 5: composition of the dry coating (mg/m
- weight ratio 50/50 stabilized with sodium dodecyl sulphonate; average particle size of 49 nm, measured with a Brookhaven BI-90 analyzer, commercially available from Brookhaven Instrument Company, Holtsville, NY;
- the plate precursors 11 - 14 were exposed with a Creo Trendsetter 2344T (40W) (plate-setter, trademark from Creo, Burnaby, Canada) , operating at 170 rpm and at a varying energy density
- the plate precursors were processed in an Agfa Clean Out Unit 80 (trademark from Agfa-Gevaert) , operating at a speed of 1.1 m/min and at 22°C, using Agfa RC527 as developer solution (trademark from Agfa-Gevaert) .
- Dmin values were measured on the non- image areas of the obtained printing plates and are summarized in Table 6.
- the printing plates were mounted on a GTO46 printing press (available from Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG) and a print job up to 1000 impressions was performed using K+E Novavit 800 Skinnex ink (available from BASF Drucksystem GmbH) and 3% Agfa FSlOl (trademark from Agfa) + 10% isopropanolamine as a fountain solution.
- Sensitivity is defined as the energy density at which the 2% dots @ 200 lpi can be reproduced in a stable and consistent way on the printed sheet.
- Dmin is measured with a densitometer Gretag D19C using a cyan filter.
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Abstract
A heat-sensitive negative-working lithographic printing plate precursor is disclosed which comprises on a grained and anodized aluminium support a coating comprising hydrophobic thermoplastic polymer particles, a hydrophilic binder and an organic compound, characterized in that said organic compound comprises at least one phosphonic acid group or at least one phosphoric acid group or a salt thereof.
Description
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NEGATIVE WORKING, HEAT-SENSITIVE LITHOGRAPHIC PRINTING PLATE PRECURSOR.
FIELD OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to a heat-sensitive, negative working lithographic printing plate precursor.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
Lithographic printing presses use a so-called printing master such as a printing plate which is mounted on a cylinder of the printing press. The master carries a lithographic image on its surface and a print is obtained by applying ink to said image and then transferring the ink from the master onto a receiver material, which is typically paper. In conventional, so-called "wet" lithographic printing, ink as well as an aqueous fountain solution (also called dampening liquid) are supplied to the lithographic image which consists of oleophilic (or hydrophobic, i.e. ink- accepting, water-repelling) areas as well as hydrophilic (or oleophobic, i.e. water-accepting, ink-repelling) areas. In so-called driographic printing, the lithographic image consists of ink- accepting and ink-abhesive (ink-repelling) areas and during driographic printing, only ink is supplied to the master.
Printing masters are generally obtained by the image-wise exposure and processing of an imaging material called plate precursor. In addition to the well-known photosensitive, so-called pre-sensitized plates, which are suitable for UV contact exposure through a film mask, also heat-sensitive printing plate precursors have become very popular in the late 1990s. Such thermal materials offer the advantage of daylight stability and are especially used in the so-called computer-to-plate method wherein the plate precursor is directly exposed, i.e. without the use of a film mask. The material is exposed to heat or to infrared light and the generated
heat triggers a (physico-) chemical process, such as ablation, polymerization, insolubilization by crosslinking of a polymer, heat- induced solubilization, or by particle coagulation of a thermoplastic polymer latex. Although some of these thermal processes enable plate making without wet processing, the most popular thermal plates form an image by a heat-induced solubility difference in an alkaline developer between exposed and non-exposed areas of the coating. The coating typically comprises an oleophilic binder, e.g. a phenolic resin, of which the rate of dissolution in the developer is either reduced (negative working) or increased (positive working) by the image-wise exposure. During processing, the solubility differential leads to the removal of the non-image (non-printing) areas of the coating, thereby revealing the hydrophilic support, while the image (printing) areas of the coating remain on the support. Negative working embodiments of such thermal materials often require a preheat step between exposure and development as described in e.g. EP-A 625,728.
Negative working plate precursors which do not require a pre- heat step may contain an image-recording layer that works by heat- induced particle coalescence of a thermoplastic polymer latex, as described in e.g. EP-A's 770 494, 770 495, 770 496 and 770 497. These patents disclose a method for making a lithographic printing plate comprising the steps of (1) image-wise exposing a plate precursor having a heat-sensitive image-recording layer to infrared light, wherein said image-recording layer comprises hydrophobic thermoplastic polymer particles, sometimes also referred to as latex particles, which are dispersed in a hydrophilic binder, and (2) developing the image-wise exposed element by applying water or by mounting the plate on the plate cylinder of a press and then supplying fountain and/or ink. During the development step, the unexposed areas of the image-recording layer are removed from the support, whereas the latex particles in the exposed areas have coalesced to form a hydrophobic phase which is not removed in the development step. In EP-A 1 342 568 a similar plate precursor is developed with a gum solution and in unpublished EP-A's no.
04103245, 04103247 and 04103248, all filed on 8 July 2004, development is achieved by means of an alkaline solution.
EP 1 356 926 discloses a negative-working lithographic printing plate precursor comprising on a grained and anodized aluminum support having a surface roughness expressed as arithmetical mean center-line roughness Ra less than 0.45 mm, a heat-sensitive coating comprising hydrophobic thermoplastic polymer particles.
A lithographic printing plate precursor comprising on a hydrophilic support an image-forming layer containing a polymerizable compound, an initator and a compound containing a functional group having an interaction with the surface of said hydrophilic support is disclosed in EP 1 500 498.
EP 1 155 820 discloses a printing plate comprising on a support an undercoating layer, a first layer containing a polymer soluble in an alkaline aqueous solution, and a second layer containing a cyanine dye as an infrared absorbing agent and a cross-linking or polymeric compound which forms a covalent bond by action of light and/or heat and thereby lowers solubility of said second layer in an alkaline developing liquid. EP 1 106 381 discloses a printing plate precursor comprising on a grained and anodized aluminium substrate having an average roughness Ra of 0.5 mm or less and/or micropores having a pore
15 2 diameter of 1 to 5 run and a pore density of 8 x 10 to 2 x 10/m , a photosensitive layer containing an infrared absorbing agent and a polymer soluble in an aqueous alkaline solution whose solubility in said solution varies by infrared laser exposure.
WO 2003/010006 and WO 2004/066029 discloses a printing plate precursor comprising on a hydrophilic lithographic base a coating comprising uncoalesced particles of hydrophobic thermoplastic polymer and a non-crosslinkable aqueous-soluble composition which is capable of facilitating the removal of the unexposed portions of said coating in an aqueous developing solution. Examples of non- crosslinkable aqueous-soluble compositions include inorganic salts, organic bases, organic acids and/or metal complexes. A problem associated with plate precursors that work according to the mechanism of heat-induced latex coalescence is that after the
coating step the surface of the printing plate precursor may show so-called point defects. These point defects may be visible throughout the surface of the coating and have varying dimensions; they are believed to be caused by local coagulation of latex particles. After exposure of such plate precursors, the image areas as well as the non-image areas may contain these point defects. During development, these spots are not always completely removed and may result in toning at the non-image areas (ink acceptance in the non-image areas) . Especially high sensitivity plates which comprise latex particles that are only weakly stabilized and thus coalesce readily i.e. upon exposure at a low energy density, tend to show this problem of point defects.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
It is an object of the present invention to provide a highly sensitive printing plate precursor that works by heat-induced coalescence of thermoplastic polymer particles and that is characterized by the occurrence of a minimum amount of point defects after the coating step.
This object is realized by the heat-sensitive negative-working lithographic printing plate precursor as defined in claim 1; i.e. a printing plate precursor comprising on a grained and anodized aluminium support a coating comprising hydrophobic thermoplastic polymer particles, a hydrophilic binder and an organic compound characterized in that said organic compound comprises at least one phosphonic acid group or at least one phosphoric acid group or a salt thereof.
According to the present invention it was found that the number and size of point defects present in the coating of a precursor comprising hydrophobic latex particles are highly reduced when said coating comprises an organic compound comprising at least one phosphonic acid group or at least one phosphoric acid group or a salt thereof. In addition, it was found that a precursor comprising hydrophobic latex particles and an organic compound comprising at least one phosphonic acid group or at least one phosphoric acid
group or a salt thereof also improves the shelf life of said precursor .
The organic compound is preferably represented by the following formula I : 1
R
or a salt thereof and wherein : n represents 0 or 1;
1 2 R and R independently represent hydrogen, an optionally substituted straight, branched, cyclic or heterocyclic alkyl group having upto 8 carbon atoms, a halogen, a hydroxyl group, an optionally substituted aryl or heteroaryl group; and
R represents an optionally substituted straight, branched, cyclic or heterocyclic alkyl group having upto 8 carbon atoms, a halogen, a hydroxyl group, an optionally substituted aryl or heteroaryl group, a carboxyl group, a phosphonic acid group, a phosphoric acid group, a sulphuric acid group or a sulfonic acid group .
Other preferred embodiments of the present invention are further defined in the dependent claims .
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION
The coating of the printing plate precursor of the present invention comprises hydrophobic thermoplastic particles. The coating may comprise one or more layer (s) and the layer comprising the hydrophobic thermoplastic particles is referred to herein as 'image- recording layer'. The hydrophobic particles preferably have a number average particle diameter below 200 nm, more preferably between 10 and 100 nm. In a specific embodiment, the average particle size is comprised between 35 nm and 70 nm, more preferably between 40 nm and 65 nm. The particle size is defined herein as the particle diameter,
measured by Photon Correlation Spectrometry, also known as Quasi- Elastic or Dynamic Light-Scattering. This technique produces values of the particle size that match well with the particle size measured with transmission electronic microscopy (TEM) as disclosed by Stanley D. Duke et al . in Calibration of Spherical Particles by Light Scattering, in Technical Note-002B, May 15, 2000 (revised 1/3/2000 from a paper published in Particulate Science and Technology 7, p. 223-228 (1989).
The amount of hydrophobic thermoplastic polymer particles contained in the coating is preferably between 20 and 90 percent by weight (wt.%), relative to the weight of all the components in the coating. In a preferred embodiment, the amount of hydrophobic thermoplastic polymer particles present in coating is at least 45 wt.% and more preferably at least 50 wt.%. An amount between 50 and 85 wt.% produces excellent results.
The hydrophobic thermoplastic polymer particles which are present in the coating are preferably selected from polyethylene, poly (vinyl) chloride, polymethyl (meth) acrylate , polyethyl (meth) acrylate, poyvinylidene chloride, poly (meth) acrylonitrile, polyvinylcarbazole, polystyrene or copolymers thereof. According to a preferred embodiment, the thermoplastic polymer particles comprise polystyrene or derivatives thereof, mixtures comprising polystyrene and poly (meth) acrylonitrile or derivatives thereof, or copolymers comprising polystyrene and poly (meth) acrylonitrile or derivatives thereof. The latter copolymers may comprise at least 50% by weight of polystyrene, and more preferably at least 65% by weight of polystyrene. In order to obtain sufficient resistivity towards organic chemicals such as hydrocarbons used in plate cleaners, the thermoplastic polymer particles preferably comprise at least 5% by weight of nitrogen containing units as described in EP 1,219,416 , more preferably at least 30% by weight of nitrogen containing units, such as (meth) acrylonitrile . According to the most preferred embodiment, the thermoplastic polymer particles consist essentially of styrene and acrylonitrile units in a weight ratio between 1:1 and 5:1 (styrene : acrylonitrile) , e.g. in a 2:1 ratio.
The weight average molecular weight of the thermoplastic polymer particles may range from 5,000 to 1,000,000 g/mol .
The hydrophobic thermoplastic polymer particles can be prepared by addition polymerization or by condensation polymerization. They are preferably applied onto the lithographic base in the form of a dispersion in an aqueous coating liquid. These water based dispersions can be prepared by polymerization in a water-based system e.g. by free-radical emulsion polymerization as described in US 3,476,937 or EP 1,217,010 or by means of dispersing techniques of the water-insoluble polymers into water. Another method for preparing an aqueous dispersion of the thermoplastic polymer particles comprises: dissolving the hydrophobic thermoplastic polymer in an organic water immiscible solvent, dispersing the thus obtained solution in water or in an aqueous medium and removing the organic solvent by evaporation. Emulsion polymerization is typically carried out through controlled addition of several components - i.e. vinyl monomers, surfactants (dispersion aids) , initiators and optionally other components such as buffers or protective colloids - to a continuous medium, usually water. The resulting polymer of the emulsion polymerization is a dispersion of discrete particles in water. The surfactants or dispersion aids which are present in the reaction medium have a multiple role in the emulsion polymerization: (i) they reduce the interfacial tension between the monomers and the aqueous phase, (ii) they provide reaction sites through micelle formation in which the polymerization occurs and (iii) they stabilize the growing polymer particles and ultimately the latex emulsion. The surfactants are absorbed at the water/polymer interface and thereby prevent coagulation of the fine polymer particles. Both non-ionic and anionic surfactants are preferably used in emulsion polymerization. Anionic surfactants are absorbed on the polymer particle and surround the particle with a charged double layer deriving from their anionic end groups and the positively charged counterions . This double layer on the surface of the polymer particles provides an energy barrier which stabilizes the emulsion or in other words which prevents coagulation of the particles. Emulsions stabilized with anionic surfactants are however sensitive to the presence of salts as salts will contract said double layer surrounding the latex
particles resulting in a reduced latex stability. The hydrophobic thermoplastic particles used in the present invention are preferably stabilized with an anionic dispersion aid. In the coating, the anionic dispersion aid may be present in its protonated form. The dispersion aid is preferably an organic compound comprising a sulphate, sulphonate, phosphate or carboxylate group and may be represented by Ra-Sθ4~ X+, R -SO3" X+, RC-Pθ4H~ X+ or R -C00~ X+ wherein R , R , R and R independently represent a straight or branched alkyl group having at least 10 carbon atoms, an aryl or heteroaryl group substituted with at least one straight or branched alkyl group having at least 10 carbon atoms or a polyether group which comprises at least one straight or branched alkyl group having at least 10 carbon such as an alkyl substituted polyalkylene-oxide group, and X represents a cation such as Na or NH4 . The polyalkylene-oxide group may comprises a plurality of alkylene-oxide recurring units of the formula -CnH2n~O- wherein n is preferably an integer in the range 2 to 5. Preferred alkylene-oxide recurring units are typically ethylene oxide, propylene oxide or mixtures thereof. The number of the recurring units range preferably between 2 and 10 units, more preferably between 2 and 7 units, and preferably less than 100, more preferably less than 60.
In a preferred embodiment the latex dispersion is stabilized with an organic compound comprising a carboxylate group.
Specific examples of suitable anionic dispersion aids include sodium lauryl sulphate, sodium lauryl ether sulphate, sodium dodecylbenzene sulphonate, sodium lauryl phosphate and sodium lauryl ether ethylene oxide 6 carboxylate; suitable non-ionic dispersion aids are for example ethoxylated lauryl alcohol and ethoxylated octylphenol . According to the present invention it was surpringly found that the addition of an organic compound comprising at least one phosphonic acid group or phosphoric acid group or a salt thereof to the coating, significantly reduces the size and number of point defects occurring on the surface of a coated grained and anodized aluminum support. Without prejudice to the scope of our claims it
seems that Al ions which are typically present on the surface of a grained and anodized aluminum support, destabilize the latex dispersion by for example contracting or reducing the charged double layer (see above) and cause local coagulation of latex particles which becomes visible as point defects. It was found that the
3+ presence of a compound which can interact with these Al ions seems to prevent this destabilization process and thus the coagulation of latex particles and thereby prevents the forming of point defects.
Possible forms of interaction between said compound and these Al ions may be for example formation of ionic bonds, covalent- coδrdination bonds such as complex formation or other.
Furthermore, it was surprsingly found that the shelf life of a precursor coated with a coating comprising an organic compound comprising at least one phosphonic acid group or phosphoric acid group or a salt thereof, is significantly improved.
The organic compound comprising a phosphonate group is present
2 in the coating in an amount preferably ranging from 5 to 550 mg/m ,
2 more preferably in an amount ranging from 8 to 250 mg/m , most
2 preferably in an amount ranging from 10 to 160 mg/m . In a preferred embodiment of the present invention, it was found that the sensitivity of a printing plate precursor comprising a coating comprising latex particles which are stabilized with a dispersion aid having a carboxylate group and the organic compound according to the present invention is higher compared to a coating comprising another anionic dispersion aid or a non-ionic disperion aid as described above.
In a preferred embodiment, the organic compound of the present invention is represented by the following formula I:
1 R
H2PO3-(O)n- C - R
R or a salt thereof and wherein:
n represents 0 or 1;
1 2 R and R independently represent hydrogen, an optionally substituted straight, branched, cyclic or heterocyclic alkyl group having upto 8 carbon atoms, a halogen, a hydroxyl group, an optionally substituted aryl or heteroaryl group;
R represents an optionally substituted straight, branched, cyclic or heterocyclic alkyl group having upto 8 carbon atoms, a halogen, a hydroxyl group, an optionally substituted aryl or heteroaryl group, a carboxyl group, a phosphonic acid group, a phosphoric acid group, a sulphuric acid group or a sulphonic acid group.
The optional substituents present on the straight, branched, cyclic or heterocyclic alkyl group or on the aryl or heteroaryl group represent a halogen such as a chlorine or bromine atom, a hydroxyl group, an amino group, a (di) alkylamino group, an alkoxy group, a carboxyl group, a sulphonic acid group, a sulphuric acid group, phosphoric acid group and a phosphonic acid group. The aryl or heteroaryl group may further comprise an alkyl group as optional substituent . In a more preferred embodiment, the organic compound compound is represented by formula II:
4 R
I
H2PO3- C - PO3H2 1S
R
R and R independently represent hydrogen, an optionally substituted straight, branched, cyclic or heterocyclic alkyl group having upto 8 carbon atoms, a halogen, a hydroxyl group, an optionally substituted aryl or heteroaryl group.
The optional substituents present on the straight, branched or cyclic or heterocyclic alkyl group or on the aryl or heteroaryl group represent a halogen such as a chlorine or bromine atom, a hydroxyl group, an amino group, a (di) alkylamino group, an alkoxy
group, a carboxyl group, a sulphonic acid group, a sulphuric acid group, a phosphoric acid group and a phosphonic acid group. The aryl or heteroaryl group may further comprise an alkyl group as optional substituent .
In a most preferred embodiment, the organic compound compound is represented by formula III:
OH I H2PO3- C - PO3H2
or a salt thereof and wherein :
6 R independently represent hydrogen, an optionally substituted straight, branched, cyclic or heterocyclic alkyl group or an optionally substituted aryl or heteroaryl group.
The optional substituents present on the straight, branched or cyclic or heterocyclic alkyl group or on the aryl or heteroaryl group represent a halogen such as a chlorine or bromine atom, a hydroxyl group, an amino group, a (di) alkylamino group, an alkoxy group, a carboxyl group, a sulphonic acid group, a sulphuric acid group, phosphoric acid group and a phosphonic acid group. The aryl or heteroaryl group may further comprise an alkyl group as optional substituent .
Specific compound especially suitable to be used in the current invention are the following compounds com-1 and com-2 :
OH
OH OH
1 ^
., P
0 ' . ! - O
OH OH
com-1
The image-recording layer further comprises a hydrophilic binder which is preferably soluble in an aqueous developer having a pH ≥ 10. Examples of suitable hydrophilic binders are homopolymers and copolymers of vinyl alcohol, acrylamide, methylol acrylamide, methylol methacrylamide, acrylic acid, methacrylic acid, hydroxyethyl acrylate, hydroxyethyl methacrylate and maleic anhydride/vinylmethylether copolymers .
The support of the lithographic printing plate precursor is a grained and anodized aluminum support. The support may be a sheet- like material such as a plate or it may be a cylindrical element such as a sleeve which can be slid around a print cylinder of a printing press.
The aluminum is preferably grained by electrochemical graining, and anodized by means of anodizing techniques employing phosphoric acid or a sulphuric acid/phosphoric acid mixture. Methods of both graining and anodization of aluminum are very well known in the art.
By graining (or roughening) the aluminum support, both the adhesion of the printing image and the wetting characteristics of the non-image areas are improved. By varying the type and/or concentration of the electrolyte and the applied voltage in the graining step, different type of grains can be obtained.
By anodising the aluminum support, its abrasion resistance and hydrophilic nature are improved. The microstructure as well as the thickness of the AI2O3 layer are determined by the anodising step,
2 the anodic weight (g/m AI2O3 formed on the aluminium surface)
2 varies between 1 and 8 g/m .
The grained and anodized aluminum support may be post-treated to improve the hydrophilic properties of its surface. For example, the aluminum oxide surface may be silicated by treating its surface with a sodium silicate solution at elevated temperature, e.g. 950C. Alternatively, a treatment may be applied which involves treating the aluminum oxide surface with a solution that may further contain an inorganic fluoride.
Further, the aluminum oxide surface may be rinsed with an organic acid and/or salt thereof, e.g. carboxylic acids, hydrocarboxylic acids, sulphonic acids or phosphonic acids, or their salts, e.g. succinates, s, phosphonates, sulphates, and sulphonates . A citric acid or citrate solution is preferred. This treatment may be carried out at room temperature or may be carried out at a slightly elevated temperature of about 300C to 500C. A further interesting treatment involves rinsing the aluminum oxide surface with a bicarbonate solution.
Still further, the aluminum oxide surface may be treated with polyvinylphosphonic acid, polyvinylmethylphosphonic acid, phosphoric acid esters of polyvinyl alcohol, polyvinylsulfonic acid, polyvinylbenzenesulfonic acid, sulfuric acid esters of polyvinyl alcohol, and acetals of polyvinyl alcohols formed by reaction with a sulfonated aliphatic aldehyde.
In a particularly preferred embodiment, the grained and anodized lithographic support is post treated with a polymer containing acrylic acid monomeric units. The amount of acrylic acid monomeric units in the polymer is preferably at least 30 mol%, more preferably at least 50 mol%, most preferred at least 75 mol%. The best results in terms of point defects are obtained with a polymer consisting essentially of acrylic acid monomeric units. An example of a suitable polymer containing acrylic acid monomeric units is GLASCOL E15, polyacrylic acid commercially available from ALLIED COLLOID MANUFACTURING.
It is further evident that one or more of these post treatments may be carried out alone or in combination. More detailed descriptions of these treatments are given in GB 1084070, DE
4423140, DE 4417907, EP 659909, EP 537633, DE 4001466, EP A 292801, EP A 291760 and US 4458005.
An optimal ratio between pore diameter of the surface of the aluminium support and the average particle size of the hydrophobic thermoplastic particles may enhance the press life of the printing plate and may improve the toning behaviour of the prints . This ratio of the average pore diameter of the surface of the aluminium support to the average particle size of the thermoplastic particles present in the image-recording layer of the coating, preferably ranges from 0.05:1 to 0.8:1, more preferably from 0.10:1 to 0.35:1.
The coating preferably also contains a compound which absorbs infrared light and converts the absorbed energy into heat. The amount of infrared absorbing agent in the coating is preferably between 0.25 and 25.0 % by weight, more preferably between 0.5 and 20.0 % by weight. In a preferred embodiment, its concentration is at least 6 % by weight. The infrared absorbing compound can be present in the image-recording layer and/or an optional other layer. Preferred IR absorbing compounds are dyes such as cyanine, merocyanine, indoaniline, oxonol, pyrilium and squarilium dyes or pigments such as carbon black. Examples of suitable IR absorbers are described in e.g. EP-As 823327, 978376, 1029667, 1053868, 1093934; WO 97/39894 and 00/29214. A preferred compound is the following cyanine dye IR-I or a suitable salt thereof:
IR-I
To protect the surface of the coating, in particular from mechanical damage, a protective layer may also optionally be applied. The protective layer generally comprises at least one water-soluble polymeric binder, such as polyvinyl alcohol, polyvinylpyrrolidone, partially hydrolyzed polyvinyl acetates,
gelatin, carbohydrates or hydroxyethylcellulose, and can be produced in any known manner such as from an aqueous solution or dispersion which may, if required, contain small amounts, i.e. less than 5% by weight, based on the total weight of the coating solvents for the protective layer, of organic solvents. The thickness of the protective layer can suitably be any amount, advantageously up to 5.0 μm, preferably from 0.05 to 3.0 μm, particularly preferably from 0.10 to 1.0 μm.
The coating may in addition to the image-recording layer also contain one or more additional layer (s) . Besides the additional layers already discussed above - i.e. an optional light-absorbing layer comprising one or more compounds that are capable of converting infrared light into heat and/or a protective layer such as e.g. a covering layer which is removed during processing - the coating may further for example comprise an adhesion-improving layer between the image-recording layer and the support.
Optionally, the coating may further contain additional ingredients . These ingredients may be present in the image-recording layer or in on optional other layer. For example, additional binders, polymer particles such as matting agents and spacers, surfactants such as perfluoro surfactants, silicon or titanium dioxide particles, development inhibitors, development accelerators or colorants are well-known components of lithographic coatings. Especially addition of colorants such as dyes or pigments which provide a visible color to the coating and remain in the exposed areas of the coating after the processing step, are advantageous. Thus, the image-areas which are not removed during the processing step form a visible image on the printing plate and examination of the developed printing plate already at this stage becomes feasible. Typical examples of such contrast dyes are the amino-substituted tri- or diarylmethane dyes, e.g. crystal violet, methyl violet, victoria pure blue, flexoblau 630, basonylblau 640, auramine and malachite green. Also the dyes which are discussed in depth in the detailed description of EP-A 400,706 are suitable contrast dyes. Dyes which, combined with specific additives, only slightly color the coating but which become intensively colored after exposure, are also of interest.
The printing plate precursor of the present invention can be image-wise exposed directly with heat, e.g. by means of a thermal head, or indirectly by infrared light, preferably near infrared light. The infrared light is preferably converted into heat by an IR light absorbing compound as discussed above. The heat-sensitive lithographic printing plate precursor of the present invention is preferably not sensitive to visible light. Most preferably, the coating is not sensitive to ambient daylight, i.e. visible (400-750 nm) and near UV light (300-400 ran) at an intensity and exposure time corresponding to normal working conditions so that the material can be handled without the need for a safe light environment.
The printing plate precursors of the present invention can be exposed to infrared light by means of e.g. LEDs or an infrared laser. Preferably, the light used for the exposure is a laser emitting near infrared light having a wavelength in the range from about 700 to about 1500 nm, e.g. a semiconductor laser diode, a Nd: YAG or a Nd: YLF laser. The required laser power depends on the sensitivity of the image-recording layer, the pixel dwell time of the laser beam, which is determined by the spot diameter (typical
2 value of modern plate-setters at 1/e of maximum intensity : 10-25 μm) , the scan speed and the resolution of the exposure apparatus (i.e. the number of addressable pixels per unit of linear distance, often expressed in dots per inch or dpi; typical value : 1000-4000 dpi) . Two types of laser-exposure apparatuses are commonly used: internal (ITD) and external drum (XTD) plate-setters. ITD plate- setters for thermal plates are typically characterized by a very high scan speed up to 1500 m/sec and may require a laser power of several Watts. The Agfa Galileo T (trademark of Agfa Gevaert N. V. ) is a typical example of a plate-setter using the ITD-technology . XTD plate-setters for thermal plates having a typical laser power from about 20 mW to about 500 mW operate at a lower scan speed, e.g. from 0.1 to 20 m/sec. The Creo Trendsetter plate-setter family (trademark of Creo) and the Agfa Xcalibur plate-setter family (trademark of Agfa Gevaert N. V. ) both make use of the XTD-technology.
Due to the heat generated during the exposure step, the hydrophobic thermoplastic polymer particles fuse or coagulate so as to form a hydrophobic phase which corresponds to the printing areas of the printing plate. Coagulation may result from heat-induced coalescence, softening or melting of the thermoplastic polymer particles. There is no specific upper limit to the coagulation temperature of the thermoplastic hydrophobic polymer particles, however the temperature should be sufficiently below the decomposition temperature of the polymer particles. Preferably the coagulation temperature is at least 100C below the temperature at which the decomposition of the polymer particles occurs. The coagulation temperature is preferably higher than 5O0C, more preferably above 1000C.
After exposure, the precursor can be developed by means of a suitable processing liquid. In the development step, the non-exposed areas of the image-recording layer are removed without essentially removing the exposed areas, i.e. without affecting the exposed areas to an extent that renders the ink-acceptance of the exposed areas unacceptable. The processing liquid can be applied to the plate e.g. by rubbing in with an impregnated pad, by dipping, (spin-) coating, spraying, pouring-on, either by hand or in an automatic processing apparatus. The treatment with a processing liquid may be combined with mechanical rubbing, e.g. by a rotating brush. The developed plate precursor can, if required, be post-treated with rinse water, a suitable correcting agent or preservative as known in the art. During the development step, any water-soluble protective layer present is preferably also removed.
Alternatively, the printing plate precursor can, after exposure, be mounted on a printing press and be developed on-press by supplying ink and/or fountain to the precursor.
Suitable processing liquids are plain water or aqueous solutions, e.g. a gumming solution or an alkaline solution. The gum solution which can be used in the development step, is typically an aqueous liquid which comprises one or more surface protective compounds that are capable of protecting the lithographic image of a printing plate against contamination or damaging. Suitable examples of such compounds are film-forming hydrophilic polymers or
surfactants. The gum solution has preferably a pH from 4 to 10, more preferably from 5 to 8. Preferred gum solutions are described in EP 1,342,568.
The embodiment using an alkaline solution is now described in more detail. A preferred developer solution is a developer with a pH of at least 10, more preferably at least 11, most preferably at least 12. Preferred developer solutions are buffer solutions such as for example silicate-based developers or developer solutions comprising buffers. Silicate-based developers which have a ratio of silicon dioxide to alkali metal oxide of at least 1 are advantageous because they ensure that the alumina layer (if present) of the substrate is not damaged. Preferred alkali metal oxides include Na2O and K2O, and mixtures thereof. A particularly preferred silicate- based developer solution is a developer solution comprising sodium or potassium metasilicate, i.e. a silicate where the ratio of silicon dioxide to alkali metal oxide is 1.
In addition to alkali metal silicates, the developer may optionally contain further components, such as buffer substances, complexing agents, antifoams, organic solvents in small amounts, corrosion inhibitors, dyes, surfactants and/or hydrotropic agents as known in the art .
The development is preferably carried out at temperatures of from 20 to 400C in automated processing units as customary in the art. For regeneration, alkali metal silicate solutions having alkali metal contents of from 0.6 to 2.0 mol/1 can suitably be used. These solutions may have the same silica/alkali metal oxide ratio as the developer (generally, however, it is lower) and likewise optionally contain further additives . The required amounts of regenerated material must be tailored to the developing apparatuses used, daily plate throughputs, image areas, etc. and are in general from 1 to 50 ml per square meter of plate precursor. The addition of replenisher can be regulated, for example, by measuring the conductivity of the developer as described in EP-A 0,556,690.
The development step may be followed by a rinsing step and/or a gumming step. The gumming step involves post-treatment of the lithographic printing plate with a gum solution. A gum solution is typically an aqueous liquid which comprises one or more surface
protective compounds that are capable of protecting the lithographic image of a printing plate against contamination or damaging. Suitable examples of such compounds are film- forming hydrophilic polymers or surfactants. The plate precursor can, if required, be post-treated with a suitable correcting agent or preservative as known in the art. To increase the resistance of the finished printing plate and hence to extend the run length, the layer can be briefly heated to elevated temperatures ("baking") . The plate can be dried before baking or is dried during the baking process itself. During the baking step, the plate can be heated at a temperature which is higher than the glass transition temperature of the thermoplastic particles, e.g. between 1000C and 23O0C for a period of 40 minutes to 5 minutes. A preferred baking temperature is above 6O0C. For example, the exposed and developed plates can be baked at a temperature of 2300C for 5 minutes, at a temperature of 1500C for 10 minutes or at a temperature of 12O0C for 30 minutes. Baking can be done in conventional hot air ovens or by irradiation with lamps emitting in the infrared or ultraviolet spectrum. As a result of this baking step, the resistance of the printing plate to plate cleaners, correction agents and UV-curable printing inks increases. Such a thermal post- treatment is described, inter alia, in DE 1,447,963 and GB 1,154,749.
The printing plate thus obtained can be used for conventional, so-called wet offset printing, in which ink and an aqueous dampening liquid is supplied to the plate. Another suitable printing method uses so-called single-fluid ink without a dampening liquid. Suitable single-fluid inks have been described in US 4,045,232; US 4,981,517 and US 6,140,392. In a most preferred embodiment, the single-fluid ink comprises an ink phase, also called the hydrophobic or oleophilic phase, and a polyol phase as described in WO 00/32705.
Examples .
Example 1.
1) Preparation of the lithographic support.
A 0.30 mm thick aluminum foil was degreased by immersing the foil in an aqueous solution containing 40 g/1 of sodium hydroxide at 600C for 8 seconds and rinsed with demineralized water for 2 seconds. The foil was then electrochemically grained during 15 seconds using an alternating current in an aqueous solution containing 12 g/1 of hydrochloric acid and 38 g/1 of aluminum sulfate (18-hydrate) at a temperature of 33°C and a current density
2 of 130 A/dm , After rinsing with demineralized water for 2 seconds, the aluminum foil was then desmutted by etching with an aqueous solution containing 155 g/1 of sulfuric acid at 700C for 4 seconds and rinsed with demineralized water at 25°C for 2 seconds. The foil was subsequently subjected to anodic oxidation during 13 seconds in an aqueous solution containing 155 g/1 of sulfuric acid at a
2 temperature of 45°C and a current density of 22 A/dm , then washed with demineralized water for 2 seconds and post-treated for 10 seconds with a solution containing 4 g/1 of polyvinylphosphonic acid at 400C, rinsed with demineralized water at 200C during 2 seconds and dried. The support thus obtained has a surface roughness Ra of
2 0.21 μm and an anodic weight of 4 g/m of AI2O3.
2 ) Preparation of the printing plate precursors.
The printing plate precursors PPP-I to PPP-5 were produced by applying a coating onto the above described lithographic support.
The coating was applied from an aqueous coating solution, dried and the layer thus obtained had a composition as defined in Table 1. Before coating, the pH of the coating solution was adjusted to 3.55.
Table 1: composition of the dry coating (mg/m
(1) weight ratio 60/40, stabilized with an anionic wetting agent; average particle size of 50 run, measured with a PL- PSDA Particle Size Distribution Analyzer, commercially available from Polymer Laboratories;
(2) Pigment available from Cabot Corporation, added as 5% aqueous dispersion (modified Cu-phtalacyanine) ;
(3) Infrared absorbing dye IR-I as defined above;
(4) Aquatreat AR-7H from National Starch & chemical company, Mw = 500 000 g/mol;
(5) Surfactant commercially available from Dupont;
(6) 1-hydroxyethylidene-l , 1-diphosphonic acid, 60% in water commercially available from from Solutia.
3 ) Evaluation of the printing plate precursors.
The printing plate precursors PPP-I to PPP-5 were inspected for point defects by visual evaluation. The inspection procedure was the following:
(i) four independent visual evaluations for determing point defects were carried out on each printing plate precursor;
(ii) the number of point defects as well as the size of the point defects were evaluated. PPP-I was used as a reference and the number and size of point defects present on PPP-I was set to 100.
The point defects were measured according to the above procedure on two levels :
• level I: a point defect visible with the eye;
• level II: a point defect only visible upon 8 X magnification.
The results of the measurements are summarized in Table 2.
Table 2: number and size of point defects.
The results of Table 2 show that the presence of citric acid in the coating (comparative precursors PPP-2 and PPP-3) does not influence the number or size of the point defects. The inventive printing plate precursors PPP-4 and PPP-5 comprising the organic compound of the present invention has a significant effect on the number and size of the point defects: the number and/or size are drastically reduced.
4. Lithographic behaviour.
The lithographic behaviour of the printing plates precursors PPP-I to PPP-5 and the related, printing plates in terms of speed, shelf life and run length were the same for all plates. There is no influence on the lithographic behaviour upon the addition of citric acid (PPP-2 and PPP-3) or the organic compound of the present invention (PPP-4 and PPP-5) compared to the reference PPP-I.
Example 2.
1 ) Preparation of the lithographic support.
The support was prepared as in Example 1
2) Preparation of the printing plate precursor.
The printing plate precursors PPP-6 to PPP-IO were produced by applying a coating onto the above described lithographic support. The coating was applied from an aqueous coating solution, dried and the layer thus obtained had a composition as defined in Table 3. Before coating, the pH of the coating solution was adjusted to 3.5.
Table 3: composition of the dry coating (mg/m ).
(1) weight ratio 60/40, stabilized with an anionic wetting agent; average particle size of 50 run, measured with a PL-PSDA Particle Size Distribution Analyzer, commercially available from Polymer Laboratories; (2) Pigment available from Cabot Corporation, added as 5% aqueous dispersion (modified Cu-phtalacyanine) ;
(3) Infrared absorbing dye IR-I as defined above;
(4) 5 %wt solution of Glascol E15 commercially available from Ciba Speciality Chemicals, Mw = 500 000 g/mol; (5) Surfactant commercially available from Dupont;
(6) 1-hydroxyethylidene-l, 1-diphosphonic acid, 60% in water commercially available from from Solutia.
The plate precursors 6 - 10 were exposed with a Creo Trendsetter 2344T (40W) (plate-setter, trademark from Creo, Burnaby,
2 Canada) , operating at 150 rpm and at an energy density of 275mJ/cm .
3) Shelf life results.
After exposure, the plate precursors were processed in an Agfa Clean Out Unit 80 (trademark from Agfa-Gevaert) , operating at a speed of 1.1 m/min and at 22°C, using Agfa RC520 as developer solution (trademark from Agfa-Gevaert) . Dmin values were measured on the non-image areas of the obtained printing plates and are summarized in Table 4. Than, the printing plates were aged in an oven for 7 days at 35°C and a RH value of 80%. After the aging test, the printing plates were processed (see above) and again Dmin was measured at the non-image areas. The difference between the Dmin values before and after the ageing test Δ(Dmin) is a measure of shelf life; the smaller the difference, the better the shelf life. The results show that Δ(Dmin) is for the invention printing plates 7 - 10 much smaller compared to the reference printing plate 6 indicating an improved shelf life for the plates comprising the organic compound of the present invention. Dmin is measured with a Gretag Macbeth densitometer Type D19C (available from Gretag Macbeth AG) .
Table 4: shelf life results.
*: Δ(Dmin) is a measure of shelf life: the lower the value the better the shelf life.
Example 3.
1) Preparation of the lithographic support.
The support was prepared as in Example 1.
2) Preparation of the printing plate precursors.
The printing plate precursors PPP-Il to PPP-14 were produced by applying a coating onto the above described lithographic support. The coating was applied from an aqueous coating solution, dried and the layer thus obtained had a composition as defined in Table 5. Before coating, the pH of the coating solution was adjusted to 3.6.
Table 5: composition of the dry coating (mg/m
1) weight ratio 50/50, stabilized with sodium dodecyl sulphonate; average particle size of 49 nm, measured with a Brookhaven BI-90 analyzer, commercially available from Brookhaven Instrument Company, Holtsville, NY;
2) weight ratio 50/50, stabilized with 3% Akypo RLM45 from Kao Chemicals GmbH, particle size 43 nm, measured with a Brookhaven BI-90 analyzer, commercially available from Brookhaven Instrument Company, Holtsville, NY, USA; Akypo RLM45 3) Contrast dye from BASF, added as a 20% aqueous dispersion (modified Cu- free phtalocyanine dye) ;
4) Infrared absorbing dye IR-I as defined above;
5) 5 %wt solution of Glascol E15 commercially available from Ciba Speciality Chemicals, Mw = 500 000 g/mol; 6) Perfluoro surfactant commercially available from Dupont; 7) 1-hydroxyethylidene-l, 1-diphosphonic acid, 60% in water commercially available from from Solutia.
The plate precursors 11 - 14 were exposed with a Creo Trendsetter 2344T (40W) (plate-setter, trademark from Creo, Burnaby, Canada) , operating at 170 rpm and at a varying energy density
2 2 ranging from 180 mJ/cm to 260 mJ/cm .
3) Preparation of the printing plates.
After exposure, the plate precursors were processed in an Agfa Clean Out Unit 80 (trademark from Agfa-Gevaert) , operating at a speed of 1.1 m/min and at 22°C, using Agfa RC527 as developer solution (trademark from Agfa-Gevaert) . Dmin values were measured on the non- image areas of the obtained printing plates and are summarized in Table 6.
Subsequently the printing plates were mounted on a GTO46 printing press (available from Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG) and a print job up to 1000 impressions was performed using K+E Novavit 800 Skinnex ink (available from BASF Drucksystem GmbH) and 3% Agfa FSlOl (trademark from Agfa) + 10% isopropanolamine as a fountain solution.
Table 6: Sensitivity results and clean out behaviour.
1) Sensitivity is defined as the energy density at which the 2% dots @ 200 lpi can be reproduced in a stable and consistent way on the printed sheet.
2) Dmin is measured with a densitometer Gretag D19C using a cyan filter.
3) Visual assessment of toning on the printed sheet as well as ink build-up on the blanket.
The results in Table 6 show that latex particles stabilised with a carboxylate dispersion aid improve the sensitivity of the printing plate without significantly reducing its clean-out performance.
Claims
1. A lithographic printing plate precursor comprising on a grained and anodized aluminium support a coating comprising hydrophobic thermoplastic polymer particles and a hydrophilic binder characterized in that said coating further comprises an organic compound comprising at least one phosphonic acid group or at least one phosphoric acid group or a salt thereof.
2. A printing plate precursor according to claim 1 wherein the hydrophobic thermoplastic particles are stabilized with an anionic dispersion aid.
3. A printing plate precursor according to claim 2 wherein the anionic dispersion aid is an organic compound comprising a carboxylate group.
4. A printing plate precursor according to any of the preceding claims wherein the organic compound is represented by the following formula I:
R H2Pθ3-(O)n- C - R
\ R
or a salt thereof and wherein:
n represents 0 or 1 ;
1 2 R and R independently represent hydrogen, an optionally substituted straight, branched, cyclic or heterocyclic alkyl group having upto 8 carbon atoms, a halogen, a hydroxyl group, an optionally substituted aryl or heteroaryl group;
R represents an optionally substituted straight, branched, cyclic or heterocyclic alkyl group having upto 8 carbon atoms, a halogen, a hydroxyl group, an optionally substituted aryl or heteroaryl group, a carboxyl group, a phosphonic acid group, a phosphoric acid group, a sulphuric acid group or a sulfonic acid group.
5. A printing plate precursor according to claim 4 wherein n is 0.
6. A printing plate precursor according to any of claims 1, 2 or 3 wherein the organic compound is represented by the following formula II :
R4
I
H2PO3- C - PO3H2
R
or a salt thereof and wherein :
4 5 R and R independently represent hydrogen, an optionally substituted straight, branched, cyclic or heterocyclic alkyl group having upto 8 carbon atoms, a halogen, a hydroxyl group or an optionally substituted aryl or heteroaryl group.
7. A printing plate precursor according to any of claims 1, 2 or 3 wherein the organic compound is represented by the following formula III:
OH
I
or a salt thereof and wherein:
6 R independently represent hydrogen, an optionally substituted straight, branched, cyclic or heterocyclic alkyl group having upto 8 carbon atoms or an optionally substituted aryl or heteroaryl group.
8. A printing plate precursor according to any of the preceding claims wherein the organic compound is present in the coating in
2 an amount ranging from 10 to 160 mg/m .
9. A printing plate precursor according to any of the preceding claims wherein the hydrophobic thermoplastic polymer particles have an average particle size in the range from 40 to 70 nm.
10. A printing plate precursor according to any of the preceding claims wherein the amount of the hydrophobic thermoplastic polymer particles in the coating is at least 70 % by weight.
11. A printing plate precursor according to any of the preceding claims wherein the hydrophobic thermoplastic polymer particles comprise at least 5% by weight of nitrogen containing units.
12. A method for making a lithographic printing plate precursor comprising the step of providing on a grained and anodized aluminum support a coating comprising hydrophobic thermoplastic polymer particles, a hydrophilic binder, and an organic compound as defined in any of the preceding claims 1 to 8.
13. A method according to claim 12 wherein the hydrophobic thermoplastic polymer particles have an average particle size in the range from 40 to 70 nm.
14. A method according to claim 12 wherein the amount of the hydrophobic thermoplastic polymer particles in the coating is at least 70 % by weight.
15. A method according to claim 12 wherein the hydrophobic thermoplastic polymer particles comprise at least 5 %wt of nitrogen containing units.
16. A method for making a lithographic printing plate comprising the steps of
(i) providing a printing plate precursor according to any of the preceding claims 1 to 11;
(ii) exposing said printing plate precursor to heat; (iii) developing the exposed precursor by removing the unexposed areas in a processing liquid.
17. A method for making a lithographic printing plate comprising the steps of
(i) providing a printing plate precursor according to any of the preceding claims 1 to 11;
(ii) exposing said printing plate precursor to heat; (iii) mounting said precursor on a printing press and developing it by supplying ink and/or fountain to said precursor .
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