Abstract: The present invention provides a method for producing a planographic printing plate and a dummy plate for planographic printing in a CTP plate-making system, the method including: taking one product out of a pile of multiple planographic printing plate precursors piled up on a base substrate and a pile of multiple dummy plate precursors for planographic printing piled up on another base substrate, distinguishing the kind of the one product, exposing the one product to an infrared ray when the one product is a planographic printing plate precursor, and developing the one product when the one product is other than the base substrate, wherein the base substrate surface, the planographic printing plate precursor, and the dummy plate precursor for planographic printing each have a different absorption maximum in a range of 350 to 700 nm and an absorbance at the absorption maximum of 0.2 or more.

Abstract: A photosensitive composition that includes a compound which generates a radical upon being heated or exposed to light; a polymer having on a side chain thereof a phenyl group substituted by a vinyl group; a monomer having in a molecule thereof at least two phenyl groups each substituted by a vinyl group; an infrared absorbent; and a dye having absorption maximum wavelength in a range from 500 to 700 nm, and an image recording material which has the photosensitive layer disposed on a support.

Abstract: A lithographic printing plate precursor comprising an aluminum support and at least one photosensitive layer containing a polymerization initiator, a polymerizable compound, a binder polymer, an infrared absorber and a coloring agent, wherein the photosensitive layer has a halogen ion concentration in a range of from 0 to 4×10?5 moles/m2.

Abstract: A lithographic printing plate precursor comprising, in this order, a support, an undercoat layer and a photosensitive layer containing an infrared absorber, a polymerization initiator, a polymerizable compound and a binder polymer, wherein the undercoat layer contains a polymer compound having an acid group, and Ra, ?S and a45 of a surface of the support are satisfied with the following conditions (i) to (iii), respectively: (i) Ra: 0.2 to 0.40 ?m, (ii) AS: 35 to 85%, (iii) a45: 25 to 55%, in which Ra, ?S (%) and a45 are defined herein.

Abstract: In the planographic printing plate precursor of the present invention, a negative type recording layer is formed on an aluminum support which has been subjected to surface-roughening treatment and anodic oxidation treatment and has a central line average roughness Ra of 0.25 to 0.7 ?m, and the recording layer comprises a compound (A) which can generate a radical by application of light or heat, a polymer (B) having on its side chain a phenyl group substituted with a vinyl group, a monomer (C) having two or more phenyl groups each substituted with a vinyl group, and an infrared absorbing agent (D).

Abstract: The present invention provides a photosensitive composition including a compound that generates a radical by application of light or heat, a polymer having a phenyl group substituted with a vinyl group on the side chain, a monomer having two or more phenyl groups substituted with a vinyl group, an infrared absorbing agent, and a compound having at least one carboxylic acid group and a weight average molecular weight of 3,000 or less. Additionally, the invention provides a planographic printing plate precursor including a substrate and a negative recording layer provided on the substrate and containing the above photosensitive composition.

Abstract: A photosensitive composition comprising: (A) a polymerizable compound represented by the following formula (I): A—{O—[(CH(—R1)CH(—R2))m—O]n—C(?O)—C(—R3)?CH2]P ??(I) wherein R1, R2and R3 each represents a hydrogen atom or a methyl group, A represents a polyhydric alcohol residue or a polyhydric phenol residue, m represents an integer of from 1 to 6, n represents an integer of from 1 to 20, and represents an integer of from 1 to 6; (B) an infrared absorber; and (C) an onium salt.

Abstract: The present invention provides a planographic printing plate precursor suitable for direct printing using infrared laser light, comprising, on a substrate, a photosensitive layer containing an infrared absorbing agent, a sulfonium salt polymerization initiator, a polymerizable compound, and a binder polymer, wherein the central line average surface roughness (Ra) of the surface of the substrate on which the photosensitive layer is arranged is in the range of 0.35 to 0.55 &mgr;m.

Abstract: The present invention provides an image forming method comprising the steps of exposing imagewisely an image forming material having a photosensitive layer comprising an infrared absorbing agent, a polymerization initiator and a polymerizable compound on a substrate to overlapping infrared beams. The solubility of the photosensitive layer in an alkali developing solution reduces upon exposure to light of wavelengths in the range of 750 nm to 1400 nm. The exposed image forming material is developed, and the infrared beam diameter used in light exposure is 20 &mgr;m or less, and the overlapping coefficient is 0.8 or more.

Abstract: The present invention provides a photosensitive composition including an infrared absorbing agent, a sulfonium salt polymerization initiator, a polymerizable compound, a binder polymer and a compound having a weight average molecular weight of 3000 or less and having at least one carboxylic acid group, as well as a planographic printing plate precursor containing the photosensitive composition in a photosensitive layer on a substrate.

Abstract: Disclosed is a highly sensitive photothermographic material containing on a support a silver salt of an organic acid, a photosensitive silver halide, a reducing agent, a binder and, for example, a compound of which one-electron oxidized derivative produced by one electron oxidation of the compound is capable of releasing two or more electrons with a bond cleavage.

Abstract: A planographic printing plate precursor, including: a substrate; a photosensitive layer containing an IR absorber, a polymerization initiator, a polymerizable compound and a binder polymer; and a protective layer containing a UV absorber, disposed in this order. The photosensitive layer exhibits reduction in solubility in an alkaline developing solution upon being exposed to light having a wavelength of 750 nm to 1400 nm.

Abstract: The present invention provides a photosensitive composition including an infrared absorbing agent, a sulfonium salt polymerization initiator, a polymerizable compound having a urethane skeleton and a binder polymer, as well as a planographic printing plate precursor containing the photosensitive composition in a photosensitive layer on a substrate.

Abstract: A water jet propulsion type outboard motor which includes: a power source; a driving system; a housing; a curved tubular duct member; guide blades; and an impeller. The duct member is fixed to the housing on which the power source is mounted, and having a suction port and a discharge port. The guide blades are provided within the duct member in the vicinity of the discharge port of the duct member. The impeller is rotated by the driving system for transmitting a driving power of the power source, and has a spiral blade with outer peripheral edge thereof close to an inner peripheral face of the duct member, and outer peripheral distal end portion thereof extending toward the suction port.

Abstract: The present invention provides an infrared photosensitive composition including a binder polymer (A), a polymerizable compound (B), an infrared absorber (C), and a compound (D) which can generate radicals by the action of light or heat, wherein an acid value of a film produced from the composition is from 0.15 mmol/g to 0.8 mmol/g. The invention also provides a planographic printing plate precursor including a substrate having disposed thereon a recording layer that contains the infrared photosensitive composition.

Abstract: The present invention provides a polymerizable composition comprising (A) a compound including a polymerizable unsaturated group and (B) a macromolecular compound including, at a side chain thereof, a structure represented by the following general formula (I). The present invention also provides a negative type planographic printing plate precursor responsive to an infrared laser, the precursor being superior in recording sensitivity and printing durability and using the polymerizable compound as a recording layer.

Abstract: Disclosed is a photothermographic material containing a silver salt of an organic acid, a silver halide and a reducing agent on a transparent support, which has, in silver iodide content distribution of total silver halide grains contained in the photothermographic material plotted with silver iodide content in abscissa and silver content in silver halide grains in ordinate, at least one maximum value in a silver iodide content range of less than 10 mol % and at least one maximum value in a silver iodide content range of 10 mol % or more. The photothermographic material shows low fog, little increase of fog and little sensitivity fluctuation during storage before light exposure.

Abstract: The invention provides a photopolymerizable composition hardenable by an infrared exposure, and an image recording material including such composition in a recording layer. The recording layer contained in the image recording material satisfies at least one of the following conditions (1) the recording layer, when exposed with an infrared laser after film formation, has a ratio of an electrostatic capacitance rate of increase in an exposed area to that in an unexposed area of 0.7 or less, (2) an image obtained by an exposure to an infrared laser and a development has a gradation (&ggr;) of at least 4, (3) a ratio of a film hardness after exposure to that before exposure is 1.1 or higher, and (4) a ratio of a surface contact angle after exposure to that before exposure is 1.1 or higher.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a negative planographic printing plate precursor for infrared exposure having an image recording layer containing an infrared absorbing agent, a radical generator and a radical polymerizable compound on a support characterized in that a sensitivity ratio (S1/S60) of a sensitivity (S60) when developed 60 minutes after infrared laser exposure to a sensitivity (S1) when developed one minute after exposure is at least 0.5 and less than 1.0 in the image recording layer. It is preferable that this composition contains a polymer compound which has a functional group having high radical reactivity and can be dissolved or swollen in water or an aqueous alkali solution.

Abstract: The present invention provides a planographic printing plate precursor comprising a substrate and a negative image recording layer provided on the substrate containing: a compound that generates a radical or an acid by light or heat; a polymerizable compound or a crosslinking compound; and an infrared ray absorbing agent, wherein a dynamic friction coefficient of the outermost surface of the planographic printing plate precursor, at the side of the negative image recording layer being provided toward an inserting paper inserted into between the planographic printing plate precursors when the planographic printing plate precursors are laminated, is within a range from 0.2 to 0.7, as well as a planographic printing plate precursor laminate comprising the pluralty of the planographic printing plate precursors and inserting paper.