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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 16, 2001
Filed:
Nov. 16, 1998
Atsushi Kakuta, Ibaraki, JP;
Masatoshi Sakata, Ibaraki, JP;
Yutaka Shoji, Ibaraki, JP;
Shigenori Suematsu, Ibaraki, JP;
Hitachi Koki Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A solid-ink printing original plate which comprises a substrate and an image comprising an ink dot formed on the substrate, and which is prepared by a process comprising the steps of: melting a solid ink that is a solid at a room temperature; and jetting the melt of the solid ink onto a substrate to form an ink dot, wherein the ink dots that have solidified on the substrate have an ink dot height of at least 5 &mgr;m, and a ratio (aspect ratio) of the ink dot height to the minor axis size of the ink dot of from 0.05 to 0.5. Also disclosed is a process for producing the solid-ink printing original plate.