Toray Industries, Inc.

Yuichi Tsuji

Takejiro Inoue

Seiichiro Murase

Akihiro Iihara

Koichi Fujimaru

Hironobu Sadakuni

Noboru Koshimizu

An object of the present invention is to provide a method for producing printed material on which active energy ray-curable ink is printed, the method being capable of improving print density without impairing gradation expressivity. The present invention is a method for producing printed material, the method including, in order: a transfer process of transferring ink to a transfer target surface of a substrate; and an impression process of bringing each of impression cylinders into contact with the transfer target surface to which the ink has been transferred, and at least one of the impression cylinders has a patterned impression part.

Method for producing a printed material

To provide is a manufacturing method for obtaining printed material in which, in lithographic printing, a printed part where multiple colors are superimposed on each other has a high gloss, and also a lithographic printing ink set. The method for manufacturing printed material according to the present invention includes a step of coating at least black ink for lithographic printing, cyan ink for lithographic printing, magenta ink for lithographic printing, and yellow ink for lithographic printing on a substrate, in which a difference in surface tension between the inks to be coated on a substrate is at most equal to 3.5 mN/m. The lithographic printing ink set according to the present invention is a lithographic printing ink set including at least black ink, cyan ink, magenta ink, and yellow ink, in which a difference in surface tension between the inks included in the lithographic printing ink set is at most equal to 3.5 mN/m.

Method for manufacturing printed material using lithographic printing ink, and lithographic printing ink set

Provided is a lithographic ink having superior surface staining resistance and fluidity. Also provided is a method for manufacturing a printed material using the lithographic ink. The lithographic ink has all of a viscosity (A) at a rotational speed of 0.5 rpm, a viscosity (B) at a rotational speed of 20 rpm, and a viscosity (C) at a rotational speed of 50 rpm of 5 Pa&#xb7;s or more and 100 Pa&#xb7;s or less, the viscosities (A), (B), and (C) being measured by using a cone-plate rotating viscometer at 25&#xb0; C., and has a viscosity ratio (C)/(B) of 0.8 or more and 1.0 or less.

Lithographic ink

The present invention aims to provide a method of producing a printed matter that shows suppressed scumming in planography. A method of producing a printed matter, the method including the steps of: allowing a dampening water to adhere to a hydrophilic layer of a planographic printing plate having at least the hydrophilic layer and a heat sensitive layer; allowing an ink to adhere to the heat sensitive layer; and transferring the ink adhering to the heat sensitive layer to an object to be printed; wherein the pH (A) of the ink and the pH (B) of the dampening water are both from 1 to 6.5.

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