Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Limited

Mitsuru Tabuchi

Hiroaki Ikeda

Masahiro Matsubara

Hitoshi Hirose

Hajime Yagi

Takuya Uematsu

Yuji Mizuho

Toshihiko Yamanaka

Hiroya Nishii

Toshiyuki Urano

The plate-making printing press is constructed by installing a plate-making apparatus in a printing press that supplies ink and dampening water to a printing plate and performs printing on a medium. In order to realize a high-precision plate-making operation, the printing press is equipped with a target disposed on the printing cylinder and a sensor for detecting the target and provided on the writing device, and the zero point of the encoder is corrected. Furthermore, at the time of plate-making, the adjustment mechanism is operated so that the printing cylinder is returned to the position of the point of origin.

Plate-making type printing press, multi-color printing press and plate-making type printing method

The regenerative plate making and printing process, and plate making and printing apparatus of the present invention are applied to a printing system requiring a separate developing step independent of a printing step. In accordance with the present invention, by repeatedly conducting (A) a photosensitive layer-coating step of coating a photosensitive plate material onto a substrate to prepare a photosensitive lithographic plate having a photosensitive layer thereon; (B) an exposure step of exposing the photosensitive layer to image light; (C) a development step of supplying a plate-treating agent to the photosensitive layer to form developed images thereon; (D) a printing step of supplying a printing ink and dampening water to surfaces of the thus obtained images to conduct printing; and (E) a substrate regeneration step of removing the image portions from the substrate to regenerate the substrate, on the same rotary drum or conveyer, it is possible to considerably improve the working efficiency and stably provide high-quality images.

Regenerative plate making and printing process, and plate making and printing apparatus

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Mihara, Japan

Mitsuru Tabuchi