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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 10, 2020
Filed:
Mar. 02, 2017
Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, NY (US);
Oliver Merka, Gottingen, DE;
Jan-Phillip Kemmling, Bilshausen, DE;
Oliver Richard Blum, Bovenden, DE;
Benedikt Uhl, Ulm, DE;
EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY, Rochester, NY (US);
Abstract
Lithographic printing plate precursors are prepared with a unique substrate and one or more radiation-sensitive imageable layers. The substrate is prepared by two separate anodizing processes to provide an inner aluminum oxide layer having an average dry thickness (T) of 650-3,000 nm and a multiplicity of inner micropores having an average inner micropore diameter (D) of ≤15 nm. A formed outer aluminum oxide layer comprises a multiplicity of outer micropores having an average outer micropore diameter (D) of 15-30 nm; an average dry thickness (T) of 130-650 nm; and a micropore density (C) of 500-3,000 micropores/μm. The ratio of Dto Dis greater than 1.1:1, and Din nanometers and the outer aluminum oxide layer micropore density (C) in micropores/μm, are further defined by the outer aluminum oxide layer porosity (P) according to the following equation:0.3≤≤0.8where Pis 3.14(C)(D)/4,000,000.