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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8113116 | Lithographic printing plate precursor A lithographic printing plate precursor which is capable of undergoing on-press development by supplying at least one of printing ink and dampening water and includes a support and an image-recording layer, wherein the image-recording layer contains at least one of ... | 02/14/2012 |
| 7363856 | Flat bed platesetter system The present invention provides a flat bed platesetter system and a method for its use, particularly for imaging printing plates. For providing a precise, continuous, rapid and format-independent system which is reliable, the present invention suggests to move the pr... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7360851 | Automated pattern recognition of imprint technology An apparatus and method for control of spreading of liquid drops are disclosed. An initial pattern of drops of liquid is deposited on a first surface. A second surface is brought into sufficient contact with the initial pattern of the drops that the liquid starts to... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7331283 | Method and apparatus for imprint pattern replication Provided is a method and system for imprinting a pattern formed on a surface of an imprint mask into a substrate. A method includes deforming at least one of the surface of the imprint mask and a surface of the substrate to produce a deformed surface having an arc t... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7299749 | Lithographic printing plate support and production method thereof A lithographic printing plate support comprising a substrate having thereon a porous layer comprising metal oxide particles bound by a compound containing a metal atom and a phosphorus atom. ... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7267928 | Printing plate material and printing process Disclosed is a printing plate material comprising a support and provided thereon, a hydrophilic layer and a thermosensitive image formation layer containing a blocked isocyanate compound, which is a reaction product of an isocyanate compound, a polyol, and an isocya... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7224528 | Optically variable security devices A security article includes a light transmissive substrate having a first surface and an opposing second surface, with the first surface having an optical interference pattern such as a holographic image pattern or an optical diffraction pattern thereon. A color shi... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7214469 | Lithographic printing plate precursor and lithographic printing method The present invention provides a lithographic printing plate precursor and a lithographic printing method using the lithographic printing plate precursor, which is capable of an image recording by infrared laser scanning and an on-press development and excellent in ... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7194956 | Offset printing method and printing apparatus using heat and light to make a printing plate hydrophilic and hydrophobic There is prepared a printing plate on which a material being hydrophilic due to light energy at a first temperature and being hydrophobic at a second temperature due to heat energy which is lower than the first temperature is provided. First, the whole surface of th... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7152530 | Printing form and method for modifying its wetting properties A printing form (10) having a surface (12) of pure silicon or of a silicon ceramic, which bears a pattern composed of hydrophilic and hydrophobic regions, the hydrophilic regions having a first chemical state and the hydrophobic regions having a second... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7146909 | Image forming material An image forming material, a lithographic printing plate precursor and a lithographic printing method, in which a color image with good visibility is obtained by laser exposure, are provided, wherein the image forming material and the lithographic printing plate pre... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7134395 | Acid inkjet imaging of lithographic printing plates The present invention includes a method of preparing an inkjet ink imaged lithographic printing plate by imagewise applying an acidic inkjet ink onto a substrate coated with an inkjet ink reactive coating composition which is acid-catalyzed, to produce an imaged coa... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7100503 | Method and device for producing different printed images on the same print substrate In a method and system to generate a print image on a carrier material, the surface of a print substrate is covered with at least one of an ink-repelling and an ink-attracting layer. In a structuring process, ink-attracting regions and ink-repelling regions are gene... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7097957 | Photosensitive resin laminate A photosensitive resin laminate comprising at least a support, a photosensitive resin layer and an IR ablation layer, wherein the IR ablation layer comprises an IR absorbent metal layer which is disposed in contact with the photosensitive resin layer. ... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7089856 | On-press development of thermosensitive lithographic printing member Method of on-press developing a thermosensitive lithographic printing member with ink and/or fountain solution is described. The printing member comprises on a substrate a thermosensitive layer soluble or dispersible in ink and/or fountain solution and capable of ha... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7078152 | Lithographic printing with printing members having plasma polymer layers A plasma polymer layer facilitates selective removal of the imaging layer of a lithographic printing member, which allows for imaging with low-power lasers. The printing member can be used on press immediately after being imaged without the need for a post-imaging p... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7073440 | Printing members having solubility-transition layers and related methods Solubility transitions rather than ablation mechanisms facilitate selective removal of the imaging layer of a lithographic plate, which allows for imaging with low-power lasers that need not impart ablation-inducing energy levels. ... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7067232 | Printing Plate A printing plate for computer-to plate lithography having a laser-ablatable member supported by a substrate. At least one portion of the laser-ablatable member is formed form an acrylic polymer containing laser-sensitive particles. The laser-sensitive particles abso... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7063935 | Support for lithographic printing plate and presensitized plate and method of producing lithographic printing plate Disclosed is a support for a lithographic printing plate, wherein an adhering amount of a rare-earth element atom to a surface thereof is 0.1 to 20 mg/mg2, and a presensitized plate provided with an image recording layer on the support for a lithographic ... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7048988 | Support for lithographic printing plate and presensitized plate The first embodiment is a support for a lithographic printing plate, wherein the surface area ratios obtained from three-dimensional data by use of an atomic force microscope meets the following requirements (1-i) to (1-iii). The second embodiment is a suppor... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7037635 | Presensitized plate The present invention provides a presensitized plate, comprising: an aluminum plate having an aluminum purity of not less than 99 wt %; and a photosensitive layer formed on the surface of said aluminum plate, wherein a fatigue fracture strength of the presensitized ... | 05/02/2006 |
| 6977132 | Planographic printing plate precursor The invention provides a planographic printing plate precursor, utilizing a support member having a hydrophilic surface excellent in hydrophilicity and durability, providing effects of improving scumming in the printing operation and capable of forming large numbers... | 12/20/2005 |
| 6964841 | Directly imageable waterless planographic printing plate precursor The invention is a directly imageable waterless planographic printing plate precursor comprising: at least a heat insulating layer, a heat sensitive layer, and an ink repellent layer that are provided in that order on a substrate, wherein a transmittance of the heat... | 11/15/2005 |
| 6929895 | Lithographic printing plate precursor A lithographic printing plate precursor comprising an aluminum substrate, an image-recording layer and a hydrophilic film, the aluminum substrate being subjected to an electrochemical surface-roughening treatment in an aqueous solution comprising hydrochloric acid a... | 08/16/2005 |
| 6912956 | Printing plate material Disclosed is a printing plate material comprising a substrate and a component layer provided thereon, the substrate having a center line average surface roughness Ra of from 0.2 to 1.0 μm, and an oil-retention volume A2 of from 1 to 10, wherein the center li... | 07/05/2005 |
| 6911295 | Planographic printing plate precursor The positive planographic printing plate precursor of the present invention is a precursor comprising (I) a positive recording layer including a water-insoluble and alkali-soluble polymer compound and a light to heat converting agent, on a support having a hydrophil... | 06/28/2005 |
| 6890700 | Lithographic printing plate precursor A lithographic printing plate precursor is disclosed, comprising a metal support having formed thereon an anodic oxide film, and an image-forming layer containing a light-to-heat converting agent, or a light-sensitive layer capable of image-forming with infrared las... | 05/10/2005 |
| 6869743 | Method of processing light-sensitive material There is disclosed a method of processing a light-sensitive material which comprises exposing a light-sensitive material having at least one light-sensitive layer on a support, and subjecting to development by a dipping system or a coating system, and then, peeling ... | 03/22/2005 |
| 6849380 | Positive heat-sensitive lithographic printing plate A positive heat-sensitive lithographic printing plate comprising an anodically oxidized aluminum support having laminated thereon an undercoating layer containing a polymer having a constituent having an acid radical and a constituent having an onium group, an inter... | 02/01/2005 |
| 6832553 | Printing method of planographic printing plate and planographic printing plate processed by this method The present invention provides a method for printing, comprising the steps of: a) developing an image forming surface of a planographic printing plate; b) after the developing, hydrophilizing a portion of a vicinity of an edge of the image forming surface; c) after ... | 12/21/2004 |
| 6806031 | Support for lithographic printing plate and presensitized plate Disclosed is a presensitized plate, having an anodized layer and recording layer provided on a support for a lithographic printing plate, wherein the anodized layer is provided by subjecting an aluminum plate to graining and anodizing treatments. The presensitized p... | 10/19/2004 |
| 6783836 | Pretreated sheet product for lithographic plates A lithographic sheet product having a substrate with a roll textured surface covered by a pretreatment layer. The pretreatment layer enhances adhesion of a printing composition to the sheet product and is composed of a polymer selected from the group consisting of p... | 08/31/2004 |
| 6764807 | Planographic printing A planographic printing member precursor comprises a first component, for example a hydroxy group containing polymer, and a second component which may be a siloxane or a compound of general formula (I), wherein M represents a silicon or a titanium atom and each of R... | 07/20/2004 |
| 6740470 | Lithographic printing plate precursor A lithographic printing plate precursor comprises: a support; and an image-forming layer including a copolymer containing a specific fluoroaliphatic group and a repeating unit corresponding to at least one of a poly(oxyalkylene) acrylate and a poly(oxyalkylene) meth... | 05/25/2004 |
| 6692896 | Heat mode-compatible planographic printing plate The present invention relates to a heat mode-compatible planographic printing plate comprising a photosensitive layer which is capable of recording with an infrared laser and formed by applying a photosensitive layer coating solution onto a hydrophilic su... | 02/17/2004 |
| 6681699 | Planographic printing plate machining device, planographic printing plate machining method and planographic printing plate The present invention discloses a planographic printing plate having a notched portion on its surface having a required size, and having smaller burrs at a rear face, and a planographic printing plate cutting device and a planographic printing plate cutti... | 01/27/2004 |
| 6620573 | Processless lithographic printing plate A negative-working heat-sensitive material for making a lithographic printing plate by direct-to-plate recording is disclosed which comprises in the order given a lithographic base having a hydrophilic surface, an oleophilic imaging layer and a cross-link... | 09/16/2003 |
| 6596457 | Positive photosensitive lithographic printing plate responsive to near infrared rays; method of producing it and method for forming a positive image A positive photosensitive printing plate is prepared wherein the photosensitivity is to near-infrared rays which do not induce a chemical change in a photosensitive component. The photosensitive material has an inclined structure from the viewpoint of dis... | 07/22/2003 |
| 6593057 | Heat-sensitive lithographic printing plate precursor A heat-sensitive lithographic printing plate precursor is disclosed, comprising a metal substrate having thereon 1) an ink-receptive layer, 2) a water-receptive layer comprising a colloidal particulate oxide or hydroxide of at least one element selected f... | 07/15/2003 |
| 6593061 | Heat-sensitive lithographic printing plate, and substrate for the plate and method of producing the same Provided is a heat-sensitive lithographic printing plate comprising a support having thereon an undercoat layer and a heat-sensitive layer in this order, with at least one of the undercoat layer and the heat-sensitive layer comprising polymer hollow micro... | 07/15/2003 |
