A structure that forms a visual representation may include a first outer layer, a second outer layer, and an interlayer being disposed between the first outer layer and the second outer layer. The interlayer may have a first side adjacent to the first outer layer and a second side adjacent to the second outer layer. The interlayer includes a plurality of cuts extending from the first side of the interlayer towards the second side of the interlayer. Each of the plurality of cuts may have an angle with respect to a plane formed by a surface of the first side of the interlayer. Each angle for at least a portion of the plurality of cuts is based on one or more pixel values of at least one image that forms the basis of the visual representation.

The purpose of the present invention is to provide a planographic printing plate precursor which suppresses bleeding or transferring of a substance over time while maintaining edge stain preventing performance, a plate-making method of a planographic printing plate, and a printing method using the planographic printing plate. The planographic printing plate precursor includes a support; and an image recording layer formed on the support, in which layer arrangement described in any one of the following i to iv is provided, a hydrophilizatioin agent layer containing a hydrophilization agent is provided in a region in a specific position of the layer arrangement from the end portion of the planographic printing plate precursor to a portion inside the end portion by 1 cm, and the image recording layer includes an infrared absorbing agent and a specific radical polymerizable compound. i: a mode in which the support layer and the image recording layer are provided in this order. ii: a mode in which the support layer, an undercoat, and the image recording layer are provided in this order. iii: a mode in which the support layer, the image recording layer, and a protective layer are provided in this order. iv: a mode in which the support layer, the undercoat, the image recording layer, and the protective layer are provided in this order.

An on-machine development lithographic printing plate precursor includes an image-recording layer on an aluminum support having an anode oxide film, wherein an end portion of the lithographic printing plate precursor has a shear droop shape, the image-recording layer contains a compound having a support adsorptive property, having a molecular weight of 1,000 or less, and not having an unsaturated double bond group in a molecule, and a content of the compound is substantially the same in a plane of the image-recording layer.

Provided are a planographic printing plate precursor including an aluminum support, and an image recording layer and a protective layer which are provided on the aluminum support in this order, in which a thickness of the protective layer is 0.2 μm or greater, and Expression (1) is satisfied in a case where a Bekk smoothness of a surface of an outermost layer on a side opposite to a side where the image recording layer is provided is denoted by b seconds; a planographic printing plate precursor laminate; a plate-making method for a planographic printing plate; and a planographic printing method.

Provided is an on-press development type lithographic printing plate precursor having a support, an image-recording layer, and an outermost layer in this order, in which the image-recording layer contains an infrared absorber, an electron-accepting polymerization initiator, and a polymerizable compound, LUMO of the electron-accepting polymerization initiator-LUMO of the infrared absorber is 0.45 eV or more, and the outermost layer contains a discoloring compound. Also provided is a method of preparing a lithographic printing plate and a lithographic printing method in which the on-press development type lithographic printing plate precursor is used.

A structure that forms a visual representation may include a first outer layer, a second outer layer, and an interlayer being disposed between the first outer layer and the second outer layer. The interlayer may have a first side adjacent to the first outer layer and a second side adjacent to the second outer layer. The interlayer includes a plurality of cuts extending from the first side of the interlayer towards the second side of the interlayer. Each of the plurality of cuts may have an angle with respect to a plane formed by a surface of the first side of the interlayer. Each angle for at least a portion of the plurality of cuts is based on one or more pixel values of at least one image that forms the basis of the visual representation.

The present invention relates to a printing plate including a first silicone layer and a second silicone layer which have different ink acceptabilities on a support. An object of the present invention is to provide a printing plate that dispenses with a development step and that has excellent image reproducibility, ink repellency, ink acceptability, and printing durability.

Provided is a laminate including a lithographic printing plate precursor and interleaving paper, in which the lithographic printing plate precursor is an on-press development type lithographic printing plate precursor containing an acid color developing agent in at least any of layers, and a pH of the interleaving paper is 5 or more.

An object of the invention is to provide a water-based lithographic printing method that is excellent in printing quality and environmental aspects. The invention concerns a method of producing a printed material, including the steps of: allowing a water-based ink to adhere to a surface of a heat sensitive layer of a lithographic printing plate having a surface on which an ink repelling layer and the heat sensitive layer exist; and transferring the adhering water-based ink directly or via a blanket to a printing substrate.

A planographic printing plate precursor includes: a support; and an image recording layer which includes a radical initiator, a radical polymerizable component, and a radiation absorption compound, and in which the image recording layer shows two or more peaks of a radical generation amount in a radical generation amount-versus-time curve after exposure to image forming radiation, in which the radical initiator includes an electron-donating radical initiator and an electron-accepting radical initiator, and the radiation absorption compound comprises a compound represented by the following Formula 1. ##STR00001##