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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 16, 2017
Filed:
Jun. 25, 2016
Xerox Corporation, Norwalk, CT (US);
David J. Gervasi, Pittsford, NY (US);
Santokh S. Badesha, Pittsford, NY (US);
Mandakini Kanungo, Penfield, NY (US);
Xerox Corporation, Norwalk, CT (US);
Abstract
This disclosure is directed to a material composition that may be usable as a surface component in a plate design for use in variable data digital lithographic image forming devices. The disclosed material composition incorporates infra-red (IR) absorbing filler materials, including carbon black filler material particles in a fluorosilicone polymer or elastomer. The inclusion of the disclosed carbon black material compositions promotes precise heating in a patterning step for a layer of dampening fluid while minimizing harmful byproduct emissions including emissions of trifluoropropionaldehyde (TFPA) resulting from localized heating of a principally fluorosilicone imaging layer. The disclosed homogeneously-dispersed carbon black particles are particularly usable for improving operational characteristics of fluorosilocone-based reimageable surface layers of imaging members employed in the variable data digital lithographic image forming devices.