Agfa-gevaert Ag

Hoechst Aktiengesellschaft

Agfa Gevaert Nv

Afga-gevaert Nv

Afga-gevaert

Andreas Elsaesser

Otfried Gaschler

Dieter Mohr

Werner Frass

Guenter Hultzsch

Steffen Denzinger

Hans W Frass

Fritz-Feo Grabley

Gerhard Buhr

Hans-Joachim Schlosser

Mathias Eichhorn

Klaus Joerg

Klaus-Peter Konrad

Shane Hsieh

Rudolf Zertani

David L Siegfried

Martin Benzing

Rudolf Neubauer

Michael Brenk

Joerg Jung

Juergen Mertes

Thomas Leichsenring

Ine Gramm

Manfred Michel

Michael Doerr

Jutta Bachstein

Helmut Haberhauer

Ernst I Leupold

Engelbert Pliefke

Siegfried Scheler

Franz Durst

Gabor I Koletar

Peter Lehmann

Raimund Haas

Klaus Rode

Douglas A Seeley

Wolfgang Zahn

Allen Peter Gates

Thorsten Lifka

Klaus Bergmann

John Kynaston Davies

Roland Robinson

Mario Boxhorn

Karin Maerz

Guenther Hultzsch

Ernst-August Hackmann

Dietmar Koenneke

Frank Fischer

Gabor Jerling

Guenter Hutzsch

Guenter Brenn

Klaus Peter Konrad

Paul Eckler

Radiation-sensitive mixtures comprising IR-absorbing cyanine dyes having a betaine structure or having a betaine structure and containing an anion, and recording materials prepared therewith

The invention relates to a developer concentrate which comprises water, at least one agent which is alkaline in water and an amphoteric surfactant and additionally at least one anionic surfactant, at least one complexing agent, at least one aminoalcohol and at least one N-alkoxylated mono- or polyfunctional amine. A ready-to-use developer can be prepared from this concentrate by dilution with tap water advantageously in the ratio of from 1:0.5 to 1:10, preferably in the ratio of from 1:2 to 1:6. The developer or the replenisher is preferably used in the production of printing plates.

Concentrate and aqueous developer produced therefrom for imagewise exposed recording materials

The invention relates to a recording material for the production of an offset printing plate, having a substrate on whose front a photosensitive image layer is present and on whose back a layer of an organic polymeric material having a glass transition temperature T,of 45&deg; C. or more is present. The photosensitive image layer, or any top layer present thereon, has a pigment layer formed thereon.

Pigmented recording material having a backing coating for the production of offset printing plates

A positive-working, radiation-sensitive mixture which contains an organic, polymeric binder which is insoluble in water but soluble or at least swellable in aqueous alkaline solution and at least one IR-absorbing dye,

Radiation-sensitive mixture comprising IR-absorbing, anionic cyanine dyes and recording material prepared therewith

The present invention relates to a recording material having a substrate and a negative-working, radiation-sensitive layer which contains a diazonium salt, metal-free colored pigments dispersed in an organic polymeric binder, transparent spacer pigments having a pore volume of more than 1.0 ml/g and a polymeric binder. The predispersal of the colored pigments is achieved by milling with an organic polymeric binder containing hydroxyl groups, some or all of which have been reacted with a di- or polycarboxylic anhydride so that the binder has an acid number of from 20 to 200. Printing plates in which the printing parts have a clearly visible contrast relative to the substrate can be produced from the recording material.

Recording material having a pigment-colored radiation-sensitive layer

The invention relates to polymers containing N-substituted maleimide units, to a positive- or negative-working radiation-sensitive mixture comprising a) a polymeric binder which is insoluble in water, but soluble in aqueous-alkaline solutions, and b) at least one radiation-sensitive compound, where the binder comprises a polymer containing N-substituted maleimide units of the formula (I)

Polymers containing N-substituted maleimide units and their use in radiation-sensitive mixtures

The invention relates to a recording material having a substrate and a radiation-sensitive, water-insoluble layer which contains a component absorbing IR radiation and which, after the action of infrared radiation, becomes soluble or at least swellable in an aqueous alkaline developer. A top layer which is opaque to white light but transparent to radiation in the IR range and can be removed with water or an aqueous solution is present on the radiation-sensitive layer. The recording material is substantially insensitive to daylight. By imagewise exposure to IR radiation and subsequent development with an aqueous alkaline developer, it is possible to produce a printing plate for offset printing from the recording material. If the top layer is washed off beforehand, the recording can also be carried out using conventional UV radiation.

Thermally recordable material insensitive to white light

The invention relates to a developer for irradiated, radiation-sensitive recording materials, in particular for the production of offset printing plates, which contains water, a compound which is alkaline in aqueous solution and a copolymer which acts as an emulsifier and has units of (I) a hydrophobic vinyl compound which has at least one optionally substituted mono- or bicyclic (C.sub.6 -C.sub.14)aryl radical and (II) a hydrophilic, ethylenically unsaturated carboxylic acid. Some of the carboxyl groups of the copolymer are esterified with reaction products of (A) (C.sub.1 -C.sub.30)alkanols, (C.sub.8 -C.sub.25)alkanoic acids, (C.sub.1 -C.sub.12)-alkylphenols or di(C.sub.1 -C.sub.20)alkylamines with (B) (C.sub.2 -C.sub.4)-alkylene oxides or tetrahydrofuran, the molar ratio (A):(B) being in the range from 1:2 to 1:50. If it is intended to develop recording materials having a negative-working layer, the developer additionally contains a water-miscible organic solvent and a surface-active compound. The developer has a low initial viscosity, which increases only slowly with increasing contamination with layer components. Furthermore it shows only a particularly low tendency to foam.

Developer for irradiated, radiation-sensitive recording materials

A positive-working or negative-working radiation-sensitive mixture includes as an IR absorbing component a carbon black pigment having a primary particle size smaller than 80 nm. The carbon black pigment is predispersed in a polymer containing acidic units having a pK.sub.a of less than 13. The radiation-sensitive component may include an ester of (i) a 1,2-naphthoquinone-2-diazide-4-sulfonic acid or a 1,2-naphthoquinone-2-diazide-5-sulfonic acid and (ii) a compound having at least one phenolic hydroxyl group, such as 3 to 6 phenolic hydroxyl groups. After imagewise radiation exposure, the recording material including the radiation-sensitive mixture can be developed without difficulties in an aqueous alkaline solution without leaving residual coating on the areas that became soluble or that remained soluble upon exposure.

Radiation-sensitive mixture and recording material made thereof for

A positive-working, radiation-sensitive recording material capable of being used for the production of planographic printing plates, comprising: an aluminum support and a radiation-sensitive layer coated thereon, wherein

Radiation-sensitive recording material for the production of

The invention relates to a sheet-like radiation-sensitive recording material whose surface is a discontinuous dulling layer comprising monodisperse particles is present. The dulling layer can be produced by spraying on a dulling liquid. An apparatus comprising an oscillation generator, which can transmit oscillations to the liquid in the apparatus, and has an orifice plate which has at least one hole with a diameter of from 5 to 250 .mu.m and from which the liquid emerges in the form of at least one laminar free jet which disintegrates into monodisperse drops is suitable for this purpose. The oscillation generator is preferably a piezoelectric ceramic.

Dulled radiation-sensitive recording material and process for its

A developer for irradiated, radiation-sensitive recording materials, in particular for the production of offset printing plates, which contains water, a compound which is alkaline in aqueous solution and a copolymer which acts as an emulsifier and has units of (I) a hydrophobic vinyl compound which has alkyl radicals having up to 30 carbon atoms and (II) a hydrophilic, ethylenically unsaturated carboxylic acid. Some of the carboxyl groups of the copolymer are esterified with reaction products of (A) (C.sub.1 -C.sub.30)alkanols, (C.sub.8 -C.sub.25)alkanoic acids, (C.sub.1 -C.sub.12)alkylphenols or di(C.sub.1 -C.sub.20)alkylamines with (B) (C.sub.2 -C.sub.4)alkylene oxides or tetrahydrofuran.

A process for developing irradiated radiation-sensitive recording materials using an aqueous-alkaline developer which contains compounds of the formula (I) ##STR1## wherein A is H, Na, K, NH.sub.4 or NR.sub.4, where

Developer for irradiated radiation-sensitive recording materials

A photosensitive recording material is described which has a layer base, a negative-working photosensitive layer containing a diazonium salt and a water-insoluble polymeric binder which is soluble or swellable in aqueous alkaline solutions, and a discontinuous top layer which forms a rough surface and which is composed of particles of a water-insoluble polymer which is dispersible in water in the presence of anionic or anionic/nonionic dispersants and which has a content of free acid groups or acid groups neutralized by salt formation of less than 0.8 mmol/g, the mean height of the particles being 2 to 6 .mu.m, the maximum height less than 10 .mu.m, the mean horizontal diameter less than 40 .mu.m, the maximum diameter less than 80 .mu.m and the number of particles being 100 to 10,000 per cm.sup.2. The material is suitable for the production of planographic printing plates and requires only short vacuum times in a vacuum-operated copying frame. The material can be developed without residue after exposure, the rough surface remaining intact at the image areas.

Photosensitive recording material containing negative working diazonium

A positive-working recording material is disclosed that has an aluminum base and a mat-finished radiation-sensitive layer that contains a 1,2-naphthoquinone-2-diazide as radiation-sensitive compound and a binder which is insoluble in water but soluble or swellable in aqueous alkali. The radiation-sensitive 1,2-naphthoquinone-2-diazide is an ester of 1,2-naphthoquinone-2-diazide-4- or -5-sulfonic acid and a phenolic compound that contains at least 2, preferably at least 3, phenolic hydroxyl groups, which ester has a phenolic hydroxyl group content of at least 0.5 mmol/g and a diazo unit content of at least 1.5 mmol/g. The binder is a phenol/formaldehyde novolak that contains at least 5 mmol/g phenolic hydroxyl groups, the phenol component of which contains at least 30 mol percent m-cresol and at least 10 mol percent of at least one xylenol and which has a weight-average M.sub.w of 2,000 to 12,000 (determined by means of GPC with polystyrene as standard). The radiation-sensitive layer additionally contains at least one phenolic additive which has a molecular weight M.sub.w of not more than 600 and contains 2 to 4 uncondensed phenyl nuclei and at least 6 mmol/g phenolic hydroxyl groups.

Positive-working recording material containing aluminum base and

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