Hoechst Aktiengesellschaft

Vereinigte Aluminum-Werke Aktiengesellschaft

Kurt Reiss

Gerhard Sprintschnik

Walter Niederstaetter

Walter Niederstatter

Gunther Scharf

Dieter Mohr

Peter Lehmann

Joachim Stroszynski

Wolfgang Von Asten

Barbara Grzemba

Dieter Bohm

Wolfgang V Asten

Barbara Grzembra

The invention is directed toward a base material for aluminum offset printing plates having improved heat stability comprising an aluminum alloy consisting of from about 0.2 to about 0.6% by weight of iron, less than about 0.25% by weight silicon and copper combined, from about 0.1 to about 0.3% by weight manganese and the remainder being aluminum and trace production impurities, said base material further characterized as containing secondary precipitates in the form of phases of the Al Mn Si: Al Fe: Al Mn type which bear a ratio to one another of from about 1:1:2 to about 1:1:3, the mean particle size being from about 0.25 to about 0.010 micron with a maximum particle size of less than about 0.3 micron and further containing a precipitation structure with a degree of dispersion of less than about 50 phases per cubic micron and a process for producing such material. The sheet material according to this invention may be uniformly roughened in either HCl or HNO.sub.3 electrolyte baths under very similar process parameters.

Process for producing base material for an aluminum offset printing plate

The invention is directed toward a base material for aluminium offset printing plates having improved heat stability comprising an aluminum alloy consisting of from about 0.2 to about 0.6% by weight of iron, less than about 0.25% by weight silicon and copper combined, from about 0.1 to about 0.3% by weight manganese and the remainder being aluminum and trace production impurities, said base material further characterized as containing secondary precipitates in the form of phases of the Al Mn Si: Al Fe: Al Mn type which bear a ratio to one another of from about 1:1:2 to about 1:1:3, the mean particle size being from about 0.25 to about 0.010 micron with a maximum particle size of less than about 0.3 micron and further containing a precipitation structure with a degree of dispersion of less than about 50 phases per cubic micron and a process for producing such material. The sheet material according to this invention may be uniformly roughened in either HCl or HNO.sub.3 electrolyte baths under very similar process parameters.

Base material for an aluminum offset printing plate

An aluminum alloy suitable as a base for printing plates consists essentially of aluminum containing iron (Fe) and manganese (Mn), the Fe content being 1.2 to 2.1% by weight, the Mn content being 0.1 to 0.9% by weight and the sum of the Fe and Mn contents being 1.3 to 2.2% by weight. A printing plate can be produced with such a base, the base being mechanically, chemically and/or electrochemically roughened and if required, anodically oxidized and hydrophilized. The printing plate includes at least one radiation-sensitive reproduction layer applied on the base.

Radiation-sensitive printing plates with base which consists of an

Disclosed is a sheet, foil or strip material comprising aluminum or an alloy thereof, which is first mechanically and then electrochemically roughened on one or both surfaces to produce the following parameters:

Sheet material of mechanically and electrochemically roughened aluminum,

The present invention describes a light-sensitive copying material comprising a support and a light-sensitive layer which contains from 0.01 to 10 percent by weight of a non-ionic ester which is obtained by reacting a perfluoro-carboxylic acid with a polyalkylene glycol or of an ether which is obtained by reacting a highly fluorinated or a perfluorinated alkanol with a polyalkylene glycol. By the addition of the fluorinated compound, a more uniform coating is achieved, even when one solvent alone is used for the coating solution.

Light-sensitive copying material and process for the manufacture thereof

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Wiesbaden, Germany

Kurt Reiss