Abstract: Lithographic printing plate precursors are prepared with a unique aluminum-containing substrate prepared using two separate anodizing processes to provide an inner aluminum oxide layer of average dry thickness (Ti) of 300-3,000 nm and a multiplicity of inner micropores of average inner micropore diameter (Di) of ?100 nm. An outer aluminum oxide layer is also provided to have a multiplicity of outer micropores of average outer micropore diameter (Do) of 15-30 nm and a dry thickness (To) of 30-650 nm. A hydrophilic layer disposed on the outer aluminum oxide layer at 0.0002-0.1 g/m2 has at least a hydrophilic copolymer composed of (a) recurring units having an amide group and (b) recurring units comprising an —OM group directly connected to a phosphorus atom, wherein M represents a hydrogen, sodium, potassium, or aluminum atom.

Abstract: A print on demand bespoke wrapping paper vending machine comprising an external housing, at least one display screen mounted relative to the external housing for customer access, a payment system associated with the machine, at least one printing device to print the wrapping paper, a cutting device to cut the printed paper to length, a roller mechanism to roll the printed paper, a labelling mechanism to apply a label to the printed and rolled paper, and a delivery chute into which the printed, rolled and labelled wrapping paper is delivered for customer removal from the machine.

Abstract: An imprint apparatus performs an imprint process including aligning a substrate and a mold in a state in which the mold is in contact with an imprint material on the substrate and curing the imprint material by light irradiation after the aligning. The apparatus includes a first irradiation unit configured to perform first light irradiation of the imprint material on the substrate before bringing the mold into contact with the imprint material on the substrate for the aligning, a second irradiation unit configured to perform second light irradiation of the imprint material on the substrate in the aligning, and a third irradiation unit configured to perform third light irradiation of the imprint material on the substrate in the curing, wherein an exposure amount by the first light irradiation is determined based on an exposure amount by the second light irradiation.

Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure relate to color compositions and methods of making a printed layer using the color composition as well as an article that can include the printed layer.

Abstract: A finished flexo plate with printing dots and non-printing indicia. The printing dots have an elevation above the plate floor sufficient to transfer ink to a substrate in a printing step, whereas the non-printing indicia are configured for persistent readability relative to the plate floor but have a height relative to the plate floor insufficient to transfer ink to the substrate in the printing step. The non-printing indicia define a pattern of alphanumeric characters, non-text graphics, or a combination thereof, and are disposed on the plate floor in the form of areas of presence and absence of polymer defined by structures formed of microdots, each microdot having an elevation relative to the plate floor lower than a printing height.

Abstract: Provided is a lithographic printing plate precursor having a support and an image-recording layer on the support, in which the image-recording layer has an infrared absorber, a polymerization initiator, a polymerizable compound 1, a polymerizable compound 2, and a polymerizable compound 3, in which a molecular weight of the polymerizable compound 1 is less than 1,000, a weight-average molecular weight of the polymerizable compound 2 is 1,000 or more and 3,000 or less, and a weight-average molecular weight of the polymerizable compound 3 is more than 3,000 and 15,000 or less.

Abstract: A cylinder sleeve, comprising a cylinder base sleeve consisting of cylindrical base layers arranged on top of each other, wherein said cylindrical base layers comprise one or more cylindrical polyurethane layers, wherein, independently of each other, at least 50 weight-% of each of said cylindrical polyurethane layers consist of polyurethane, and wherein the outermost cylindrical base layer is a cylindrical polyurethane layer; and one or more cylindrical layers, arranged on top of each other, wherein the innermost cylindrical layer is applied on the lateral surface of the cylinder base sleeve according to (a) and wherein the outermost layer of said one or more cylindrical layers is an adhesive layer for attaching a printing plate thereto, wherein the cylinder base sleeve according to (a) exhibits a carbon dioxide release coefficient RCO2 in the range of from 0 to 9.5 ppmv cm?3 d?1.

Abstract: A coating composition can form a cured film which has excellent transparency, hardness, abrasion resistance, adhesion, and weather resistance. The stability of the composition itself is excellent. An optical member has a cured film formed from the coating composition.

Abstract: This application provides an alignment film transfer printing plate including a substrate, a first dot arranged on the substrate, and a plurality of second dots arranged around the first dot. A height of each of the second dots in a direction perpendicular to a surface of the substrate is less than or equal to a height of the first dot in the direction perpendicular to the surface of the substrate, a blocking portion is formed on an end of the first dot away from the substrate, and an area of an end surface of each of the second dots away from the substrate is less than an area of an end surface of the blocking portion away from the substrate.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides an aluminium alloy strip for lithographic printing plate supports, which has a rolled-in surface topography on one strip surface. Further, a method is disclosed for manufacturing the aluminium alloy strip and a printing plate for lithographic printing, with a printing plate support made of aluminium alloy. The object of proposing an aluminium alloy strip for lithographic printing plate supports is that it provides a long service life in the printing process and is roughened with less charge support entry. This is achieved in that the surface of the aluminium alloy strip has a mean peak number measured perpendicular to the rolling direction of the aluminium alloy strip.

Abstract: There is provided an anti-counterfeit ink composition, an anti-counterfeit ink, and an anti-counterfeit printed matter that transmits a visible light region, having absorption in an infrared region, and capable of judging authenticity of a printed matter, and containing composite tungsten oxide fine particles, the composite tungsten oxide fine particles having a hexagonal crystal structure, having a lattice constant such that a-axis is 7.3850 ? or more and 7.4186 ? or less, and c-axis is 7.5600 ? or more and 7.6240 ? or less, and having a particle size of the near-infrared absorbing material fine particles is 100 nm or less, and a method for producing the anti-counterfeit ink composition, the anti-counterfeit ink, the anti-counterfeit printed matter, and the anti-counterfeit ink composition.

Abstract: Provided are a planographic printing plate precursor including a support and an image recording layer on the support, in which the image recording layer contains an organic particle containing a resin that has a constitutional unit A having a cation moiety and a constitutional unit B having an anion moiety; and a method of preparing a planographic printing plate using the planographic printing plate precursor.

Abstract: Flexographic printing members amenable to aqueous (or organic) development do not exhibit the deleterious effects on printing performance characteristic of some conventional alternatives. Embodiments of the invention utilize a photopolymerizable layer comprising, consisting of, or consisting essentially of a photopolymerization initiator and a water-dilutable (but not water-soluble) monomer.

Abstract: The present invention provides a printing plate precursor including a layer which includes particles and is provided at a printing surface side of an aluminum support, in which a modulus of elasticity of the particles is 0.1 GPa or more, and in a case where a Bekk smoothness of an outermost layer surface at the printing surface side is denoted by A second, a specific expression (1) is satisfied; a printing plate precursor laminate; a method for making a printing plate; and a printing method.

Abstract: Systems and processes for making a flexo plate, and plates made thereby. Non-printing indicia defined by areas of presence and absence of polymer in the plate floor created using microdots imaged during a LAMS layer imaging step are readable downstream of the washing or other non-cured-polymer-removal step but not to print in the printing step. The non-printing indicia may define a repeating pattern of alphanumeric characters, non-text graphics, or a combination thereof. A difference in growth of plate structures corresponding to different types of microdots may be used for characterizing processing conditions.

Abstract: A printing machine comprises a printing module (28) having a flexographic printing mode and a gravure printing mode, wherein the printing module comprises at least two printing cylinders (34, 36) defining the printing mode of the printing module, and a printing tool handling unit being configured for withdrawing and inserting the at least two printing cylinders (34, 36) from and into the printing module, respectively. The printing tool handling unit comprises a coupling interface and the at least two printing cylinders each comprise a complementary coupling interface such that the printing tool handling unit can at least temporarily be coupled to one or more of the at least two printing cylinders (34, 36) via the respective coupling interfaces.

Abstract: In an example, a rotogravure printer roller is described. The printer roller (300) comprises a contact surface formed from a plurality of adjacent roller sections (302, 304). The roller sections are constructed and arranged to be removably assembled to form the roller.

Abstract: A method for printing on a substrate comprises two steps. The first step consists essentially of: applying onto a substrate one or more layers of an energy curable ink and applying one or more layers of a water-based coating over the top of the one or more layers of energy curable ink. The second step comprises the steps of, in any order: a) drying the one or more layers of water-based coating, and b) actinically or electron beam curing simultaneously all the energy curable ink layers.

Abstract: Disclosed is a patterning method by ink lithography. More particularly, the patterning method includes coating thin film-forming nanoparticles surrounded by the first ligand on a substrate to form a nanoparticle thin film; directly spraying a ligand-substituting ink to a selected region on the nanoparticle thin film to form a region in which the first ligand is substituted with the second ligand; and washing the nanoparticle thin film with a washing solvent so that the region substituted with the second ligand is patterned.

Abstract: A planographic printing plate precursor containing in the following order: an aluminum support; an image recording layer; and a protective layer, in which a thickness of the protective layer is 0.2 ?m or greater, and in a case where a Bekk smoothness of a surface of an outermost layer at a side where the image recording layer is provided is 1000 seconds or less.