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US 11,466,165 B2Granted
Printing plate, method of manufacturing the same, and method of manufacturing printed matter using the same
AssigneeToray Industries, Inc.
InventorsAkihiro Iihara, Takejiro Inoue
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a printing plate including a first silicone layer and a second silicone layer which have different ink acceptabilities on a support. An object of the present invention is to provide a printing plate that dispenses with a development step and that has excellent image reproducibility, ink repellency, ink acceptability, and printing durability.
Claims15
A printing plate comprising an ink repellent first silicone layer and an ink acceptive second silicone layer in this order on a support, wherein
- the first silicone layer and the second silicone layer comprise 60% by mass or more of a cross-linked siloxane compound,
- the mean modulus of elasticity of the first silicone layer is 0.001 to 10 MPa, and
- the mean modulus of elasticity of the second silicone layer is 60 to 2,000 MPa.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.