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US 2011/0252993 A1Published application
Photopolymerizable flexographic printing elements for printing with uv inks
AssigneeFlint Group Germany GmbH
InventorsStefanie Dottinger, Uwe Stebani
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Abstract
Photopolymerizable flexographic printing elements which contain cyclohexanepolycarboxylic esters as plasticizers and also their use for producing flexographic printing forms for printing with UV inks, in particular for UV narrow web printing.
Claims15
1-15. (canceled)
A photomerizable flexographic printing element for producing flexographic printing forms for printing with UV inks, which comprises at least
- A) a dimensionally stable support and
- B) a photopolymerizable, relief-forming layer comprising at least
- 1) from 40 to 90% by weight of a thermoplastic-elastomeric block copolymer comprising at least one block which consists essentially of alkenylaromatics and at least one block which consists essentially of 1,3-dienes,
- 2) from 1 to 20% by weight of ethylenically unsaturated monomers,
- 3) from 0.1 to 5% by weight of photoinitiator and
- 4) from 1 to 40% by weight of plasticizer,
- where the amounts are in each case based on the total amount of all components of the photopolymerizable layer, and
- wherein at least one of the plasticizers is from 1 to 40% by weight of at least one cyclohexanepolycarboxylic ester of the general formula R1-(COOR2)n where
- n is 2, 3 or 4,
- R1 represents an n-valent cyclohexane radical
- R2 represents, independently of one another, a linear, branched or cyclic, aliphatic hydrocarbon radical having from 3 to 20 carbon atoms.
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