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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 04, 2001
Filed:
Jan. 18, 2000
Printing plate substrate and method of making a printing plate substrate or an offset printing plate
Jürgen Kaulen, Grevenbroich, DE;
Wolfgang von Asten, Pulheim, DE;
Helmut Schmiedel, Frechen, DE;
Barbara Grzemba, Bonn, DE;
VAW aluminum AG, Bonn, DE;
Abstract
The invention relates to a printing plate substrate made of a rolled and embossed aluminum strip, wherein the surface has depressions with an average diameter of <25 &mgr;m and an aspect ratio of <1.5 (ratio length/width relative to the transport direction of the strip). The number of depressions is >2,500/mm,. The invention also relates to a method of making an aluminum printing plate substrate, wherein the surface of the aluminum strip is roughened using rollers. The surfaces of the rollers have microscopically small, stochastically distributed, dome-shaped projections. In cross-sectional view, the rollers have a round ridge-shaped roughness profile. The invention is also directed to an offset printing plate, wherein a printing plate substrate is produced with the method and provided with an anodically deposited oxide layer. A light-sensitive hydrophobic, oleophilic layer is deposited on the oxide layer.