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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 29, 2020
Filed:
Feb. 16, 2018
Miraclon Corporation, Oakdale, MN (US);
Kevin M. Kidnie, St. Paul, MN (US);
Elsie Anderson Fohrenkamm, St. Paul, MN (US);
M. Zaki Ali, Mendota Heights, MN (US);
MIRACLON CORPORATION, Oakdale, MN (US);
Abstract
A relief image is prepared by: A) imaging an imageable material to form a mask element; B) exposing a relief-forming precursor through the mask element; C) removing the mask element; and D) developing the imaged relief-forming precursor. The imageable material has, in order: (a) a transparent polymeric carrier sheet; (b) a non-ablatable light-to-heat converting having an average dry thickness of 1-5 μm and comprising: (i) an infrared radiation absorbing material at 0.1-5 weight %; (ii) a thermally crosslinked organic polymeric binder material; and (iii) non-thermally ablatable particles having an average particle size of 0.1-20 μm in an amount of 0.2-10 weight %; and (c) a non-silver halide thermally-ablatable imaging layer (IL) disposed on the LTHC layer, the IL comprising a second infrared radiation absorbing material and a UV-light absorbing material dispersed within one or more thermally-ablatable polymeric binder materials. The imageable material can be included in a relief image-forming assembly.