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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 22, 2013
Filed:
Sep. 27, 2011
Ido Gal, Kafar-Saba, IL;
Ophira Melamed, Shoham, IL;
Jankiel Kimelblat, Ra'anana, IL;
Mazi Amiel-levy, Or-Yehuda, IL;
Ido Gal, Kafar-Saba, IL;
Ophira Melamed, Shoham, IL;
Jankiel Kimelblat, Ra'anana, IL;
Mazi Amiel-Levy, Or-Yehuda, IL;
Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, NY (US);
Abstract
Flexographic printing precursors are prepared by providing an elastomeric mixture of one or more elastomeric resins and non-metallic fibers having an average length of at least 0.1 mm and an average diameter of at least 1 μm, and adding a vulcanizing composition and optional other components to the elastomeric mixture. The elastomeric mixture is then mechanically treated to orient the non-metallic fibers predominantly in the same dimension in the elastomeric mixture. It is then vulcanized and formed into a laser-engraveable layer having two orthogonal dimensions. The non-metallic fibers are predominantly oriented in one of the two orthogonal dimensions.