PRINTING FORM PRECURSOR, A PROCESS FOR MAKING THE PRECURSOR, AND A METHOD FOR PREPARING A PRINTING FORM FROM THE PRECURSOR

    公开(公告)号:US20230001684A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-01-05

    申请号:US17939588

    申请日:2022-09-07

    IPC分类号: B41C1/00 G03F7/20

    摘要: The invention pertains to a photosensitive element, particularly a photopolymerizable printing form precursor; a method of preparing the photosensitive element to form a printing form for use in relief printing; and, a process of making the photosensitive element. The printing form precursor includes a layer of a photosensitive composition, a digital layer that is adjacent to a side of the photosensitive layer, and a cell pattern layer that is disposed between the photosensitive layer and the digital layer. The cell pattern layer includes a plurality of features in which each feature an area between 5 to 750 square microns and is composed of an ink that is opaque to actinic radiation and transparent to infrared radiation. Since the cell pattern layer is integral with the printing form precursor, digital imaging can occur rapidly with relatively low resolution optics to form a mask without needing to also form a microcell pattern of the digital layer. The printing form precursor having the integrated cell pattern layer facilitates the preparation of relief printing forms to have a print surface suitable for printing solids with uniform, dense coverage of ink.

    METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR APPLYING A PATTERN ON A MASK LAYER

    公开(公告)号:US20220176688A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-06-09

    申请号:US17439919

    申请日:2020-03-19

    IPC分类号: B41C1/00

    摘要: A method for applying a pattern on a mask layer includes obtaining an image file representing pixels with a first pixel size in a first direction parallel to an edge of the pixel, and a second pixel size in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, where the first and second pixel size are the same or different, treating the mask layer such that a plurality of areas with altered physical properties are created in the mask layer, the plurality of areas corresponding to a plurality of pixels of the image file, where the treatment is done such that a first and/or a second area size of an area of said plurality of areas, seen in said first and/or said second direction, is smaller than the first and/or second pixel size, respectively.

    NONPLANAR PATTERNED NANOSTRUCTURED SURFACE AND PRINTING METHODS FOR MAKING THEREOF

    公开(公告)号:US20210094272A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-04-01

    申请号:US15733300

    申请日:2018-12-26

    摘要: A method of applying a pattern to a nonplanar surface. A stamp has a major surface with pattern elements having a lateral dimension of greater than 0 and less than about 5 microns. The major surface of the stamp has a functionalizing molecule with a functional group selected to chemically bind to the nonplanar surface. The stamp is positioned to initiate rolling contact with the nonplanar surface, and contacts the nonplanar surface to form a self-assembled monolayer (SAM) of the functionalizing material thereon and impart the arrangement of pattern elements thereto. The major surface of the stamp is translated with respect to the nonplanar surface such that: a contact pressure is controlled at an interface between the stamping surfaces and the nonplanar surface, and a contact force at the interface is allowed to vary while the stamping surfaces and the nonplanar surface are in contact with each other.

    Apparatus and method for producing flexographic printing plates

    公开(公告)号:US10691021B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-06-23

    申请号:US15506088

    申请日:2015-08-27

    摘要: A device for producing flexographic printing plates starting from digitally imagable flexographic printing elements, with which at least the method steps of reverse exposure, main exposure, development using washout media, drying, and aftertreatment can be carried out in automated form, the device comprising at least two different transport devices with which the flexographic printing elements or plates, respectively, are transported through the device. A method for producing flexographic printing plates using said device.

    Digitally imageable flexo-printing plate with integrated barrier layer

    公开(公告)号:US10518571B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-12-31

    申请号:US15577103

    申请日:2016-05-24

    摘要: A digitally imageable, photopolymerizable flexographic printing element that includes, disposed one above another in order, at least a dimensionally stable support, at least one photopolymerizable, relief-forming layer having a layer thickness of 300-6000 μm, including at least one elastomeric binder, an ethylenically unsaturated monomer, and a photoinitiator or a photoinitiator system, an oxygen-blocking barrier layer which is transparent to UVA light and has a layer thickness of 0.3-5 μm, a laser-ablatable mask layer having a layer thickness of 0.3-5 μm, including at least one elastomeric binder and a material which absorbs UV/VIS light, and a removable outer film, wherein the at least one relief-forming layer, the barrier layer and the mask layer are soluble or dispersible in an organic solvent, and the barrier layer includes at least one oxygen-blocking binder and an oligomeric or polymeric basic adhesion component.

    Embossing die creation
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    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US10046593B2

    公开(公告)日:2018-08-14

    申请号:US15455553

    申请日:2017-03-10

    申请人: HP INDIGO B.V.

    摘要: An embossing die is created by printing multiple ink layers (530, 540) in superposition thereby to build up a printed relief pattern (510) in accordance with received design data specifying a design to be embossed. The design data is modified after receipt to introduce into the printed relief pattern to be built, one or more channels (610) which extend depth-wise through multiple ink layers of the printed relief pattern (510) and serve to fully or partially segment the printed relief pattern.