Abstract: A layered printing plate that attains a high degree of clarity and improved clean out. The printing plate may include an oleophilic substrate, a laser absorbing imaging layer and an oleophobic silicon layer. One embodiment utilizes an amine resin rather than a traditional polymer as the basic organic matter of the imaging layer, adds of colloidal silica into the imaging layer to improve the cleanout properties, and utilizes a substrate that absorbs IR radiation rather than reflects it.

Abstract: A layered printing plate that attains a high degree of clarity and improved clean out. The printing plate may include an oleophilic substrate, a laser absorbing imaging layer and an oleophobic silicon layer. One embodiment utilizes an amine resin rather than a traditional polymer as the basic organic matter of the imaging layer, adds of colloidal silica into the imaging layer to improve the cleanout properties, and utilizes a substrate that absorbs IR radiation rather than reflects it.

Abstract: Embodiments of the invention are directed to a method for preparing a printing member. The method may include selectively applying an imaging material onto the hydrophilic coating of a transfer media to form an image The transfer media include a heat-resistant layer and hydrophilic coating. The transfer media may further include a thermoplastic layer. The method may further include hot laminating the transfer media with a substrate having hydrophilic surface and separating the substrate and the transfer media such that at least the image is transferred onto the hydrophilic surface of the substrate.