Toray Industries, Inc.

Masanao Isono

Norimasa Ikeda

Ken Kawamura

Masaya Asano

Shinji Tanaka

Shigeo Abiko

Katsutoshi Sasashita

Mikio Tsuda

Norikazu Tabata

Tetuo Suzuki

Yuzuru Baba

A photosensitive resin composition comprising (A) a polymer as derived from its latex dispersion in water, (B) a hydrophilic photopolymerizable monomer, (C) rubber, and (D) a photopolymerization initiator, especially that as prepared by mixing (A&prime;) a latex dispersion in water and (B) a hydrophilic photopolymerizable monomer to give a component (E), followed by kneading under heat the resulting component (E) with (C) rubber and (D) a photopolymerization initiator, can be developed with a developer not containing additives such as surfactants and alkali metal salts. The composition has good image reproducibility and is favorable to flexographic printing plates.

Photosensitive resin composition, method for producing photosensitive resin composition, and printing plate material

Lithographic printing plate

According to the present invention there is provided a laminate comprising a photosensitive layer and a silicone rubber layer both laminated successively onto a base substrate, in which a main component of the photosensitive layer is formed by an adduct obtained by an addition reaction of a photopolymerizable glycidyl (meth)acrylate and a monoglycidyl ether compound not having a photopolymerizable group with a diamine compound. Because of using a photosensitive layer having such a specific composition as mentioned above, the dry planographic printing plate obtained from the present invention is suitably employable in commercial web offset printing and newspaper web offset printing.

Laminate used for the production of a dry planographic printing plate

The present invention is concerned with a printing plate of which image formation is done by photoirradiation, having a front side covered waith a peelable or removable protective layer which contains a photofading material. The printing plate is safe against fogging to light and can be used under ordinary illumination.

Printing plate

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