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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 07, 1998
Filed:
Mar. 11, 1996
Paul Richard West, Fort Collins, CO (US);
Jeffery Allen Gurney, Greeley, CO (US);
Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, NY (US);
Abstract
A peel-developable lithographic printing plate is comprised of a substrate, a hydrophilic layer comprising a polymeric acid overlying the substrate, a radiation-sensitive image-forming layer overlying the hydrophilic layer and a stripping layer that is strippably adhered to the image-forming layer. The image-forming layer is comprised of a photo-polymerizable composition comprising a polymeric binder, a plurality of addition-polymerizable ethylenically-unsaturated compounds at least one of which possesses phosphorus-derived acidic functionality and a photopolymerization initiator. After imagewise exposure of the plate to activating radiation, the stripping layer is peeled from the image-forming layer with only the unexposed regions of the image-forming layer adhering thereto so as to reveal the underlying hydrophilic layer and thereby form a lithographic printing surface.