IP Library Patent Application 11452927
Patent Application
App. No. 11/452,927

Coating method and planographic printing plate

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App. No.
11/452,927
Abstract

The present invention provides a method of coating a coating solution comprising: providing a web; providing a coating solution; coating the coating solution on at least one surface of the web; and drying the coating solution to form a coated layer, wherein a temperature of the web is maintained at 35° C. or more during coating. According to the coating method, a multi-layered planographic printing plate can be manufactured at low energy cost and running cost.

Claims (21)

1 - 8 . (canceled)

9 . A planographic printing plate, comprising:

a support web obtained by graining at least one surface of an aluminum web;

a plate-making layer formed on the grained surface of the support web; and

a protective layer that is superposed on the plate-making layer and protects the plate-making layer,

wherein the plate-making layer and the protective layer are formed by coating and drying respectively a plate-making layer forming solution and a protective layer forming solution, with a surface temperature of the support web maintained at a temperature of 35° C. or more.

10 . The planographic printing plate according to claim 9 , further comprising an intermediate layer located between the plate-making layer and the protective layer,

wherein the intermediate layer is formed by coating and drying an intermediate layer forming solution with the support web maintained at a temperature of 35° C. or more.

11 . The planographic printing plate according to claim 10 , wherein a temperature of the support web, when the intermediate layer forming solution is coated, is in a range of 35° C. to 0.8 Tb low (° C.).

12 . The planographic printing plate according to claim 10 , wherein the intermediate layer is a layer having oxygen barrier properties.

13 . The planographic printing plate according to claim 9 , wherein, when both the plate-making layer forming solution and the protective layer forming solution are coated, a temperature of the support web is in a range of 35° C. to 0.8 Tb low (° C.).

14 . The planographic printing plate according to claim 9 , wherein the plate-making layer is a photo-polymerizing type laser-sensitive layer that is polymerized by exposure to visible light or to ultra violet light, and the protective layer is an oxygen barrier layer that protects the photo-polymerizing type laser-sensitive layer from oxygen in the air.

15 . A planographic printing plate, comprising:

a support web obtained by graining at least one surface of an aluminum web; and

a plate-making layer formed on the grained surface of the support web,

wherein the planographic printing plate is formed by coating the coating solution in either a state where a web is wider than a predetermined value, or in a state where the web is thicker than a predetermined value, or in both such states, and with a temperature of the web of the plate-making layer maintained at a temperature of 35° C. or more.

16 . The planographic printing plate according to claim 15 , wherein the plate-making layer is formed by coating a plate-making layer forming solution on a support web maintained at a temperature of between 35° C. and 0.8 Tb low (° C.), and thereafter drying the support web.

17 . The planographic printing plate according to claim 15 , wherein the plate-making layer is a photo-polymerizing type laser-sensitive layer that is polymerized by exposure to visible light or to ultra violet light.

18 . The planographic printing plate according to claim 17 , further comprising an oxygen barrier layer that protects the photo-polymerizing type laser-sensitive layer from oxygen in the air,

wherein the oxygen barrier layer is superposed on the photo-polymerizing type laser-sensitive layer.

19 . The planographic printing plate according to claim 18 , wherein an intermediate layer of an oxygen barrier resin is formed between the photo-polymerizing type laser-sensitive layer and the oxygen barrier layer.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Feb 15, 2007
From: FUJIFILM HOLDINGS CORPORATION (FORMERLY FUJI PHOTO FILM CO., LTD.)
To: FUJIFILM CORPORATION
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