Toray Industries, Inc.

Shigetora Kashio

Shinji Tanaka

Katsutoshi Sasashita

Kuniyuki Takahashi

Junichi Fujikawa

Tsutomu Mizumi

Ken-ichi Morita

Takao Kinashi

Tamio Adachi

Yoshiro Kinoshita

Tomio Adachi

Toju Kosuga

Hiroshi Tamada

Katutoshi Sasashita

Yasuko Yokoyama

Disclosed are a photosensitive resin composition for printing plate materials, which comprise a polymer having an ionic group and a polymerizable group in the side chain, and a printing plate material as formed by applying the composition onto a support. The hardness of the photosensitive layer of the composition is hardly influenced by temperature and water, and the layer, after having been developed, has good resistance to aqueous ink.

Photosensitive resin composition with polymer having an ionic group and

Photosensitive resin composition

Photosensitive resin compositions for printing plates and photosensitive

Disclosed are a photosensitive resin composition essentially comprising 100 parts by weight of modified polyvinyl alcohol comprising a structural units of formulae (I), (II) and (III): ##STR1## wherein R represents a hydrocarbon group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms; X represents an aliphatic, alicyclic or aromatic divalent hydrocarbon group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms or a divalent group having at least one carboxyl group in the molecule thereof, the proportion of the structural unit of formula (I) being from 1 to 40 mol %, the total proportion of the structural units of formulae (II) and (III) being from 60 to 99 mol %, and the carboxyl equivalent attributed to the structural unit of formula (III) being from 0.3 to 5 mol/kg, (B) from 0.1 to 10 parts by weight of an unsaturated epoxy compound, (C) from 20 to 200 parts by weight of a polymerizable unsaturated compound having an ethylenical double bond in the molecule thereof, and (D) from 0.1 to 10 parts by weight of a photopolymerization initiator. A photosensitive resin composition containing modified polyvinyl alcohol obtained by reacting partially saponified polyvinyl alcohol having a degree of saponification of 60 to 99 mol % and a number average degree of polymerization of 300 to 2,000 with a carboxylic acid anhydride in a molten state is also disclosed. Additionally, and a process for producing a photopolymerizable resin composition comprising reacting partially saponified polyvinyl alcohol having a degree of saponification of 60 to 99 mol % and a number average degree of polymerization of 300 to 2,000 with a carboxylic acid anhydride in a molten state to prepare (A-2) modified polyvinyl alcohol and mixing modified polyvinyl alcohol (A-2) with (C) a polymerizable unsaturated compound having an ethylenical double bond in the molecule thereof, and (D) a photopolymerization initiator is disclosed. The photosensitive resin compositions provide a printing plate material having high sensitivity and highly precise image reproducibility, from which material is obtained a printing plate whose relief has excellent toughness. The use of the modified polyvinyl alcohol obtained by a molten reaction makes it easy to prepare a solution of a photosensitive resin composition.

Photosensitive resin composition and process for producing the same

The present invention relates to a photosensitive relief or intaglio printing plate comprising a base and a photocurable photosensitive layer formed on the base, the photocurable photosensitive layer containing a dye precursor which forms a dye upon irradiation of actinic light. A relief (convex) pattern or a concave pattern can be recognized by coloring, thereby facilitating the printing plate inspecting work. The developing solution used is not colored or contaminated.

Photosensitive relief printing plate and photosensitive intaglio

This invention relates to a photosensitive polymer composition containing as essential components (A) a soluble polymer, (B) a photopolymerizable compound having an ethylenic double bond in the molecule there of and (C) a photopolymerization initiator, the soluble polymer comprising a water-soluble polymer and an alcohol-soluble polymer, the composition having a sea-and-islands structure comprising sea containing the water-soluble polymer as a main component and islands containing the alcohol-soluble polymer as a main component, and the islands are independently in the form of sphere or oval having a diameter of 0.1 to 20 microns. The photosensitive polymer composition affords a printing plate having high image reproducibility and water-developability and capable of withstanding the coating of an aqueous polymer according to a printing method.

Photosensitive polymer composition containing a soluble polymer of

According to the present invention there are provided method and apparatus for producing a simple printing plate having open cells, which method and apparatus area simple in construction and permit accurate and continuous production of the printing plate. More specifically, as the method there is provided a method of producing a simple printing plate having open cells by pressing both an embossing member having a relief image and a to-be-embossed member which is a sheet having open cells, in a heated state of the embossing member, allowing the relief image to be transferred to the to-be-embossed member, characterized in that the embossing member is attached to an embossing cylinder, the to-be-embossed member is attached to a to-be-embossed cylinder, one or both of the embossing cylinder and the to-be-embossed cylinder being in an arcuate form, and both cylinders are rotated in synchronism with each other, thereby pressing the embossing member and the to-be-embossed member in a rolling fashion.

Apparatus for producing simple printing plate having open cells

A method for producing a printing plate which involves forming an image on the surface of a sheet having open cells by selectively applying a thermal exposure to the surface of the sheet. The sheet is a thermoplastic resin preferably having melting point between about 50.degree. to 150.degree. C. The resulting printing plate has a planar surface with no relief sections; instead there are porous and nonporous sections, with the porous sections being permeable to ink infused within the printing plate. A method of printing using the above plate is also disclosed.

Method for producing a printing plate and method if its use

According to the present invention there are provided method and apparatus for producing a simple printing plate having open cells, which method and apparatus area simple in construction and permit accurate and continuous production of the printing plate. More specifically, as the method there is provided a method of producing a simple printing plate having open cells by pressing both an embossing member having a relief image and a to-be-embossed member which is a sheet having open cells, in a heated state of the embossing member, allowing the relief image to be transferred to the to-be-embossed member, characterized in that the embossing member is attached to an embossing cylinder, the to-be-embossed member is attached to-be-embossed cylinder, one or both of the embossing cylinder and the to-be-embossed cylinder being in an arcuate form, and both cylinders are rotated in synchronism with each other, thereby pressing the embossing member and the to-be-embossed member in a rolling fashion.

Method for producing simple printing plate having open cells

A photosensitive resin composition comprising components A, B and C described below is provided. The composition of the present invention is quite effectively usable for the preparation of photosensitive resin printing plates having excellent water developability, image reproducibility and printability. The composition comprises:

Water developable photosensitive resin composition

Organic fibrous material is changed to heat-stabilized material by heating in an atmosphere, and then the heat-stabilized material is carbonized in a carbonizing furnace at a temperature of from about 800.degree.C to 1600.degree.C. When temperature at any given point in the furnace is plotted on a vertical axis and the particular location along the length of the carbonizing furnace is plotted on a horizontal axis, the slope of the resulting temperature profile above 800.degree.C either remains constant or decreases until the maximum temperature in the furnace is reached.

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