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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 25, 2006
Filed:
Aug. 16, 2001
Rolf Knöll, Weinheim, DE;
Thomas Telser, Weinheim, DE;
Hans Menn, Willstätt, DE;
BASF Aktiengesellschaft, Ludwigshafen, DE;
Abstract
A process for the manufacture of organically developable, photopolymerizable flexographic elements on flexible metallic supports by coating a flexible metallic support with a tack-free adhesive coating composition which is insoluble and non-swelling in printing inks and organic developers, attaching an elastomeric, photopolymerizable layer to a protective film, and laminating the photopolymerizable layer to the metallic support coated with said adhesive coating composition. A photopolymerizable flexographic element comprising a photopolymerizable layer which is attached to a metallic support by means of a tack-free adhesive film that is non-swelling and insoluble in printing inks and organic developers.