System for the production of dot-etched lithographic films
AssigneeE. I. Du Pont de Nemours and Company
InventorRuger Reinhold
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Abstract
A system for the preparation of dot etched lithographic films, consisting essentially of a light sensitive silver halide material for tanning development and an etching solution, in which system the light sensitive material of various layers contains at least one colorant, e.g., pigment or dye with acid groups, which is stable in the processing baths and forms with bases salts soluble in organic solvents, and the etching solution contains a base that ionizes the colorant, and a solvent for the resulting ion pair.
Claims10
A process for the preparation of dot-etched lithographic films, consisting essentially of (1) a light sensitive material for tanning development, and (2) an etching solution, in which light sensitive material, comprising
- (a) a support,
- (b) at least one unhardened or substantially unhardened gelatin layer containing at least one colorant, containing at least one acid group, the at least one colorant being stable in developers and forming with bases salts soluble in organic solvents,
- (c) a tannable, gelatin cover layer applied directly over layer (b), in which light sensitive material (1) at least one layer (b) and (c) contains silver halide, is exposed imagewise to an image containing halftone dots and developer, the unexposed areas are removed and the film is treated with an aqueous etching solution to reduce the size of the halftone dots, the aqueous etching solution (2) contains at least one base that ionizes the colorant and at least one organic solvent for the resultant ion pair.
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