A flexographic printing raw plate comprising at least a support, a photosensitive resin composition layer, an infrared ablation layer, and a cover film sequentially stacked, wherein the infrared ablation layer contains an infrared absorber, a binder polymer, and a dispersant, and a base number of the dispersant is 5 to 100 mgKOH/g.

A method for manufacturing a display device including providing a protection resin having a base resin, a first initiator, and a second initiator to the non-display area, irradiating light having a first wavelength region to the protection resin to form a preliminary protection layer, bending the flexible substrate so that the bending part has a first curvature radius, and additionally curing the preliminary protection layer to form a protection layer.

Disclosed herein are methods for patterning two-dimensional atomic layer materials, the methods comprising: illuminating a first location of an optothermal substrate with electromagnetic radiation, wherein the optothermal substrate converts at least a portion of the electromagnetic radiation into thermal energy, and wherein the optothermal substrate is in thermal contact with a two-dimensional atomic layer material; thereby: generating an ablation region at a location of the two-dimensional atomic layer material proximate to the first location of the optothermal substrate, wherein at least a portion of the ablation region has a temperature sufficient to ablate at least a portion of the two-dimensional atomic layer material within the ablation region, thereby patterning the two-dimensional atomic layer material. Also disclosed herein are systems for performing the methods described herein, patterned two-dimensional atomic layer materials made by the methods described herein and methods of use thereof.

The invention relates to a laser-ablatable mask film for the exposing of relief printing plates and screen printing stencils, comprising at least (i) a dimensionally stable base sheet, (ii) a UV-transparent adhesion layer, and (iii) a laser-ablatable mask layer, characterized in that the laser-ablatable mask layer (iii) comprises a) a binder comprising a crosslinked polyvinyl alcohol, b) a material which absorbs UV/VIS light and IR light, and c) optionally an inorganic filler.

An ablation layer for a photosensitive resin for a relief printing plate, the ablation layer containing at least an acid-modified polymer and an infrared-absorbing agent and having a layer acid value as defined below of 2 mg KOH/g or more and 400 mg KOH/g or less, and a neutralized salt ratio as defined below of 0.9 or less:

Layer acid value=(Acid value of the acid-modified polymer)×(Mass ratio of the acid-modified polymer to an entire ablation layer); and

Neutralized salt ratio=(Number of moles of polymer wherein acid in the acid-modified polymer exists in neutralized salt state)/(Total number of moles of the acid-modified polymer).

A thermal treatment apparatus including a hot plate which heats a substrate mounted thereon, in a treatment chamber including a lid body covering a surface to be treated of the substrate mounted on the hot plate, the thermal treatment apparatus includes: a control unit which controls at least a temperature of the hot plate, and a temperature measuring unit which measures a temperature of the lid body, wherein the control unit is configured to perform, when a set temperature of the hot plate is changed, correction of a heating amount by the hot plate for obtaining the set temperature after change, based on the temperature of the lid body measured by the temperature measuring unit.

The present invention aims to provide a CTP flexographic printing original plate having such high performances that, even under a severe low-temperature condition of 10° C. or lower, no crack is generated in a heat-sensitive mask layer and further that, even when the heat-sensitive mask layer is formed as a thin film, no unevenness is generated in an optical density in transmission. A photosensitive CTP flexographic printing original plate, characterized in that, it comprise at least a support, a photosensitive resin layer and a heat-sensitive mask layer which are sequentially layered, that the heat-sensitive mask layer contains a methoxymethylated polys side resin (A) and a water-soluble polyamide resin (B) containing a basic nitrogen atom in a molecule, and that a glass transition point of the polyimide resin (A) is 0° C. to 30° C.

A method for identifying a relief precursor or a relief comprising a carrier and a relief-forming layer, having the steps: a) providing a relief precursor comprising a carrier and a relief-forming layer; b) providing data which identifies the type of relief precursor and, if appropriate, contains process-relevant data for processing it, in the form of at least one two-dimensional code; c) introducing the at least one two-dimensional code into the relief-forming layer as a relief.

Systems and methods for making a flexo plate, and plates, machines, readers, and computer readable media for use therewith. In the system, a plurality of processing machines, each configured to perform one or more process steps in a workflow, includes a controller, a variable operating parameter controlled by the controller, and a reader configured to read machine-readable indicia on the flexo plate. The machine-readable indicia (e.g. bar code, RFID tag, text) is configured for persistent readability downstream of washing (and cutting) steps, without printing in the printing step. The indicia may embody information including at least a plate identifier and instructions corresponding to the at least one variable operating parameter for each of the processing machines or information corresponding to an address in computer storage where the information resides.

Described is a recording element which is suitable for the production of high-resolution flexographic printing plates by means of digital information transmission that can be imaged with actinic laser radiation and comprises or consists of the following layers: (A) a carrier film, (B) a photopolymerizable layer/relief forming polymer layer which is cross-linkable by actinic radiation, (C) an actinic radiation transparent intermediate layer composite, comprising at least two polymer comprising composite layers lying on top of each other, a first composite layer (C1) acting as blocking layer or barrier layer and a second composite layer (C2) acting as adhesion modulator against the relief forming polymer layer, (D) a recordable template layer comprising a monomeric diazonium compound, and (E1) optionally a peelable protective film or cover film on the recordable template layer (D).