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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 30, 2014
Filed:
Mar. 22, 2011
Christine Joanne Landry-coltrain, Fairport, NY (US);
Linda M. Franklin, Rochester, NY (US);
Christine Joanne Landry-Coltrain, Fairport, NY (US);
Linda M. Franklin, Rochester, NY (US);
Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, NY (US);
Abstract
Used flexographic printing members and unused flexographic printing precursors can be recycled for reuse. This recycling can be achieved by melting a laser-engraveable layer of a flexographic printing precursor or a laser-engraved layer of a flexographic printing member to form a melt, and reforming the melt into a new laser-engravable flexographic printing precursor. The laser-engraveable layer or laser-engraved layer comprises one or more thermoplastic elastomeric nanocrystalline polyolefins that can also be mixed with non-nanocrystalline polymers.