Abstract: A dry developer composition suitable for use in the development of an electrostatic charge pattern is described. This developer composition comprises toner particles the average particle diameter whereof is comprised between 3 and 10 microns, and spacing particles the average diameter whereof is under 40 microns and at least twice the average particle diameter of the toner particles, and is characterized in that the part of spacing particles in the overall amount of spacing particles and toner particles is comprised between 1 and 8% by weight.

Abstract: This invention provides a lithographic base comprising a support provided with a hardened hydrophilic layer wherein the hardened hydrophilic layer comprises a dextran or pullulan modified with a group containing amine or amide functions having at least one free hydrogen.

Abstract: Method for making lithographic aluminum offset printing plates according to the DTR-process by photo-exposing a photosensitive monosheet layer assemblage comprising a hydrophilic aluminum foil, an intermediate layer comprising hydrophobic polymer beads prepared by polymerization of ethylenically unsaturated monomer(s) and having an average diameter not lower than 0.2 .mu.m, and a silver halide emulsion layer, applying an aqueous alkaline solution to the photo-exposed silver halide emulsion layer in the presence of a developing agent and a silver halide solvent to form a silver image and to allow unreduced silver halide or complexes formed thereof to diffuse image-wise from the developed silver halide emulsion layer to said aluminum foil to produce thereon a silver image, and separating said emulsion layer and said intermediate layer from the imaged aluminum foil. The invention also relates to the photosensitive monosheet layer assemblage used for making such printing plates.

Abstract: Method for making lithographic aluminum offset printing plates according to the DTR-process by photo-exposing a photosensitive monosheet layer assemblage comprising a hydrophilic aluminum foil, an intermediate layer comprising hydrophobic polymer beads prepared by polymerization of ethylenically unsaturated monomer(s) and having an average diameter not lower than 0.2 .mu.m, and a silver halide emulsion layer, applying an aqueous alkaline solution to the photo-exposed silver halide emulsion layer in the presence of a developing agent and a silver halide solvent to form a silver image and to allow unreduced silver halide or complexes formed thereof to diffuse imagewise from the developed silver halide emulsion layer to said aluminum foil to produce thereon a silver image, and separating said emulsion layer and said intermediate layer from the imaged aluminum foil. The invention also relates to the photosensitive monosheet layer assemblage used for making such printing plates.

Abstract: Method of making aqueous dispersions of hydrophobic polymer particles loaded with at least one hydrophobic compound, comprising the consecutive steps of dissolving said at least one hydrophobic compound in a water-immiscible organic solvent medium, dispersing the solution obtained in water or in an aqueous medium to form a dispersed phase having an average droplet size lower than 5 .mu.m, mixing the resulting dispersion with a dispersion of hydrophobic polymer particles in water or in an aqueous medium, said hydrophobic polymer particles being swellable in said water-immiscible solvent medium and having an average particle diameter ranging from 0.02 to 5.0 .mu.m, stirring the mixture obtained to allow said hydrophobic compound to associate with said hydrophobic polymer particles, and removing said water-immiscible organic solvent medium by evaporation.

Abstract: Electrophotographic method of obtaining lithographic printing plates comprising the following steps: (i) uniformly electrostatically charging a photoconductor element, (ii) image-wise discharging said photoconductor element, (iii) developing the resulting electrostatic charge pattern with dry toner particles of which more than 90% by volume have an equivalent particle size diameter less than 10 microns and more than 50% by volume have an equivalent particle size diameter less than 7 microns, (iv) electrostatically transferring the developed image to a toner receiving plate, said toner receiving plate comprising a plastic film support that is thermostable to a temperature of at least 140.degree. C. and a crosslinked hydrophilic layer thereon, said layer containing infrared absorbing substances in such an amount that the reflection density of said layer in the visible spectrum is between 0.4 and 1.4, and (v) fixing the transferred toner to said toner receiving plate by infrared radiation fusing.

Abstract: Method for making lithographic aluminium offset printing plates according to the DTR-process by photo-exposing a photosensitive monosheet layer assemblage comprising a hydrophilic aluminium foil, a water-swellable intermediate layer comprising a non-proteinic hydrophilic film-forming polymer, and a silver halide emulsion layer, applying an aqueous alkaline solution thereto in the presence of a developing agent and a silver halide solvent, allowing to reduce the photo-exposed silver halide, allowing the unreduced silver halide or complexes thereof to diffuse to said aluminium foil to form a silver image thereon, and separating said emulsion layer and said intermediate layer from the imaged aluminium foil. The invention also relates to the photosensitive monosheet layer assemblage used for making such printing plates.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an electrophotographic method of obtaining a lithographic printing plate comprising the step of transferring a toner image from a toner image bearing member to a toner receiving plate, said toner receiving plate comprising a thermoplastic film support and a crosslinked hydrophilic layer thereon, characterized in that said crosslinked hydrophilic layer either carries on top thereof or incorporates spacing particles forming protuberances on said layer.According to a preferred embodiment, the average particle diameter by volume of the spacing particles is at least twice the average particle diameter by volume of the electrophotographic toner.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method for making a lithographic aluminium offset printing plate comprising the steps of:information-wise exposing an imaging element comprising on an aluminium support a layer of physical development nuclei and a silver halide emulsion layerdeveloping said information-wise exposed imaging element in the presence of a silver halide solvent to obtain a silver image in said layer of physical development nuclei andremoving all layers on top of said silver image to expose said silver image by means of washing with rinsing water characterized in that said rinsing water has a pH of 4 to 8 and is bufferred.

Abstract: Method for making lithographic aluminium offset printing plates according to the DTR-process by photo-exposing a photosensitive monosheet layer assemblage comprising a hydrophilic aluminium foil, a water-swellable intermediate layer comprising a non-protenic hydrophilic film-forming polymer, and a silver halide emulsion layer, applying an aqueous alkaline solution thereto in the presence of a developing agent and a silver halide solvent, allowing to reduce the photo-exposed silver halide, allowing the unreduced silver halide or complexes thereof to diffuse to said aluminium foil to form a silver image thereon, and separating said emulsion layer and said intermediate layer from the image aluminium foil. The invention also relates to the photosensitive monosheet layer assemblage used for making such printing plates.

Abstract: Presensitized imaging element comprising a support and a light-sensitive hyrophilic layer thereon, said light-sensitive hydrophilic layer containing in homogeneously distributed state throughout the entire layer a hydrophilic (co)polymer or (co)polymer mixture, a tetraalkyl orthosilicate crosslinking agent in an amount of at least 0.2 parts by weight per part by weight of hydrophilic (co)polymer or (co)polymer mixture and a low-molecular weight diazonium salt and preferably also (a) substance(s) that increase(s) the mechanical strength and the porosity of the layer, by means of which a lithographic printing plate can be produced by imagewise exposing said imaging element to an ultraviolet radiation source, subsequently bringing it in the presence of an aqueous liquid in contact with a receptor element comprising a receiving layer containing a polyionic mordant for the diazonium salt and separating it from the receiving layer to leave the residual non-exposed diazonium salt on the receiving layer.

Abstract: A method for the production of a photographic image by silver complex diffusion transfer processing wherein a negative working silver halide emulsion material having particularly high exposure latitude and being manipulatable under room light conditions without prohibitive fogging is used, said material having a low intensity reciprocity failure (L.I.R.F). The material is contact-exposed with visible light through a sheet support carrying paper paste-up material with its information facing the silver halide emulsion layer of the photographic material, and the resulting latent image is developed in the presence of a silver halide complexing agent and the thus developed silver halide emulsion material is contacted with an image-receiving material to form according to a preferred embodiment a planographic printing plate.