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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 05, 2002
Filed:
Dec. 22, 1999
Jayanti Patel, Woodcliff Lake, NJ (US);
Shahhikant Saraiya, Parlin, NJ (US);
Celin Savariar-Hauck, Badenhausen, DE;
Jianbing Huang, Woodridge, NJ (US);
Frederic Mikell, Parsippany, NY (US);
Ken-ichi Shimazu, Briarcliff Manor, NY (US);
Nishith Merchant, North Bergon, NJ (US);
Kodak Polychrome Graphics LLC, Norwalk, CT (US);
Abstract
A thermal lithographic printing plate, which can be imaged by thermal energy typically by imagewise exposure with an infrared emitting laser, a thermal printing head, etc., is made up of a hydrophilic substrate, and a composite layer structure composed of two layer coatings. Preferably, the first layer of the composite is composed of an aqueous developable polymer mixture containing a solubility inhibiting material and a photothermal conversion material which is contiguous to the hydrophilic substrate. The second layer of the composite is insoluble in the aqueous solution, is ink receptive, and is composed of one or more non-aqueous soluble polymers which are soluble or dispersible in a solvent which does not dissolve the first layer. The plate is exposed with an infrared laser or a thermal print head, and upon aqueous development of the imaged plate, the exposed portions are removed exposing hydrophilic substrate surfaces receptive to conventional aqueous fountain solutions. The unexposed portions contain the ink-receptive image areas. The second layer may also contain a photothermal conversion material. Alternatively, the composite layer may be free of photothermal conversion material when thermal imaging is carried out using a thermal printing head.