EP0167087B1 - Procédé pour le décapage électrochimique de plaques d'acier pour l'utilisation comme supports pour plaques d'impression offset ainsi qu'une solution électrolytique appropriée à ce procédé - Google Patents
Procédé pour le décapage électrochimique de plaques d'acier pour l'utilisation comme supports pour plaques d'impression offset ainsi qu'une solution électrolytique appropriée à ce procédé Download PDFInfo
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
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- the present invention relates to a method for the electrochemical roughening of printing plate supports based on steel in an aqueous electrolyte containing chloride ions and additives, a corrosion protection effect being achieved in addition to a uniform roughening of the surface.
- the invention also relates to the use of an aqueous electrolyte solution containing chloride ions and additives for the electrochemical roughening of printing plate supports based on steel.
- Offset printing plates which in the following are referred to as printing plates for the sake of simplicity, generally consist of a support on which at least one reproduction layer sensitive to radiation is applied, this being applied to the support either by the consumer in the case of non-pre-coated plates or by the industrial manufacturer in the case of pre-coated (pre-sensitized) plates is applied.
- Metallic materials are mainly used as the printing plate carrier, mainly aluminum and its alloys being used. But carrier plates made of normal carbon steel or steel alloys (chrome-nickel steels, manganese steels etc.) are also used.
- the printing plate In order to achieve certain properties necessary for a printing plate, such as adhesion to the layer, differentiation of hydrophilic and hydrophobic areas with specific behavior, corrosion properties, hardness of the surface, which is important for the print run, the printing plate is generally subjected to a pretreatment. These include, for example, modification by mechanical, chemical, electrochemical roughening, which is also called graining or etching, chemical or electrochemical oxidation of the surface, treatment with hydrophilizing agents or temperature hardening.
- the modification usually consists of a combination of mechanical and / or electrochemical roughening and an anodic oxidation, optionally with a subsequent hydrophilization step.
- Carrier plates based on aluminum are used to a large extent and have largely proven themselves, even if they have a lower mechanical strength and abrasion resistance than steel plates due to the material. However, they are not accessible to an advantageous magnetic attachment on the printing cylinders.
- the desirable property of magnetic fastening is of particular interest in high-speed reel machines.
- the printing plate supports have been designed as multi-layer plates.
- Multi-layer plates which consist of a base support made of aluminum or steel, on which are made of two different metals, printing and non-printing areas.
- the printing areas are mainly made of copper, the non-printing areas are made of chrome.
- Such multilayer boards have the advantage in terms of magnetic fastening and have strength, kink resistance and surface hardness.
- a disadvantage of multi-layer boards is, among others, in their technically complicated manufacture.
- a pressure plate based on steel was developed according to DE-A 31 00 630.
- Steel as a lithographic base material is sufficiently hydrophilic to form non-image area directly, but it has the disadvantage of being highly susceptible to corrosion.
- the steel plates are electro-roughened in a chloride solution with an inhibiting salt solution, e.g. a sodium nitrite solution. The copy layer is then applied. Hexacyanoferrates or cobaltates are used as hydrophilizing agents.
- Such printing plates have the advantages of strength, kink resistance, magnetic adhesion in the printing press and a certain corrosion resistance when storing and / or developing the exposed plates and / or developing the exposed plates and / or compared to the previously mentioned printing plates Printing process.
- the object is achieved according to the invention by a process for the electrochemical roughening of printing plate supports based on steel in an aqueous electrolyte containing chloride ions and additives, the characteristic feature of which is that the printing plate support is electrochemically contained in an electrolyte containing 1 to 100 g / l hydrochloric acid and Roughening 1 to 50 g / l of at least one neutral or nitrogen-containing corrosion inhibitor with a wetting agent effect (wetting agent inhibitor).
- the electrolyte composed of hydrochloric acid and a corrosion inhibitor with wetting agent properties may optionally contain compounds which form fluoride ions and are soluble in the electrolyte.
- steel is to be understood to mean all steels which can be etched with hydrochloric acid, i.e. Both unalloyed and correspondingly alloyed steels can be used according to the invention. If the process is also effective for steels with a higher C content, particularly uniform roughening is achieved especially with steels whose C content does not exceed 0.1%.
- wetting agent inhibitors which delay the formation of scars when etched by hydrochloric acid.
- neutral reacting compounds such as Nonylphenol polyglycol, especially N-containing compounds.
- Amines, imines and ammonium compounds are particularly suitable.
- Fluoride ions bring about an improved surface attack with finer structuring, particularly in the case of steels with a coarse grain structure.
- hydrofluoric acid and soluble fluorine compounds in particular alkali metal fluorides such as sodium fluoride or else double fluorides, have proven themselves as compounds which form fluoride ions in the electrolyte.
- the concentrations of the hydrochloric acid and the compounds forming the fluoride ions are between 10 and 100 g / l.
- iron compounds preferably FeCl 3 , of 10 to 50 g / l can be added without any negative effects on the roughening pattern.
- direct current is used in such a way that the sheet to be roughened is switched as an anode. If necessary, a defoaming agent can also be added.
- the process according to the invention is carried out either discontinuously or, preferably, continuously with strips made of steel or its alloys.
- the process parameters in continuous processes during roughening lie in the following ranges: the temperature of the electrolyte between 20 and 60 ° C, the current density between 3 and 130 A / dm 2 , the residence time of a material point to be roughened in the electrolyte between 10 and 300 sec and Electrolyte flow rate on the surface of the material to be roughened between 5 and 100 cm / sec.
- the current densities required tend to be in the lower part and the residence times are in the upper part of the ranges specified; the flow of the electrolyte can also be dispensed with.
- the stage of electrochemical roughening of the printing plate support material made of steel can also be followed by one or more post-treatment stages.
- Aftertreatment is understood to mean in particular a hydrophilizing chemical or electrochemical treatment of the steel beam, for example an electrochemical treatment (anodization) in an aqueous alkali silicate solution according to DE-A 2532769, an immersion treatment in an aqueous alkali silicate solution according to DE-A 14 71 707 or an immersion treatment of the material in an aqueous polyvinylphos Phonic acid solution according to DE-A 16 21 478.
- These post-treatment stages serve in particular to additionally increase the hydrophilicity of the iron carrier material, which is already sufficient for many areas of application, with the other desired properties of this layer being at least retained.
- all layers are suitable as light-sensitive reproduction layers which, after exposure, optionally with a subsequent development and / or fixation, provide an image-like area from which printing can take place and / or which represent a relief image of a template. They are applied either by the manufacturer of presensitized printing plates or by so-called dry resists or directly by the consumer to one of the usual carrier materials using known methods.
- the light-sensitive reproduction layers include those as e.g. in “Light-Sensitive Systems” by Jaromir Kosar, John Wiley & Sons Verlag, New York 1965. Layers containing unsaturated compounds in which these compounds are isomerized, rearranged, cyclized or crosslinked during exposure (Kosar, Chapter 4); Layers containing photopolymerizable compounds in which monomers or prepolymers optionally polymerize during exposure by means of an initiator (Kosar, Chapter 5), and layers containing o-diazoquinones such as naphthoquinonediazides, p-diazoquinones or diazonium salt condensates (Kosar, Chapter 7).
- Suitable layers also include electrophotographic layers, i.e. those containing an inorganic or organic photoconductor.
- Negative-working mixed condensation products of aromatic diazonium compounds can furthermore be used, for example those according to DE-A 20 24 244, which each have at least one unit of the general types (AD) n and B - connected by a double-bonded intermediate member derived from a condensable carbonyl compound.
- the symbols are defined as follows: A is the remainder of a compound containing at least two aromatic carbocyclic and / or heterocyclic nuclei, which is capable of condensation with an active carbonyl compound in at least one position in an acid medium.
- D is a diazonium salt group bonded to an aromatic carbon atom of A, n is an integer from 1 to 10 and B is the remainder of a diazonium group-free compound capable of condensing with an active carbonyl compound in at least one position of the molecule in an acidic medium.
- Positive-working layers such as those according to DE-A 26 10 842, which contain a compound which cleaves off on irradiation, a compound which has at least one C-0-C group which can be cleaved by acid (for example an orthocarboxylic acid ester group or a carboxylic acid amide acetal group) and optionally contain a binder can be used.
- acid for example an orthocarboxylic acid ester group or a carboxylic acid amide acetal group
- binder optionally contain a binder
- Negative-working layers of photopolymerizable monomers, photoinitiators, binders and optionally other additives can also be used.
- the monomers used here are, for example, acrylic and methacrylic acid esters or reaction products of diisocyanates with partial esters of polyhydric alcohols, as described, for example, in US Pat. Nos. 2,760,863 and 30,60023 and DE-A 20 64 079 and 23 61 041.
- Suitable photoinitiators include Benzoin, benzoin ethers, multinuclear quinones, acridine derivatives, phenazine derivatives, quinoxaline derivatives or synergistic mixtures of different ketones.
- soluble organic polymers can be used as binders, e.g. Polyacetal resins, polyamides, polyesters, alkyd resins, polyvinyl alcohol, polyvinyl pyrrolidone, polyethylene oxide, gelatin or cellulose ether.
- binders e.g. Polyacetal resins, polyamides, polyesters, alkyd resins, polyvinyl alcohol, polyvinyl pyrrolidone, polyethylene oxide, gelatin or cellulose ether.
- negative-working layers which contain a diazonium salt polycondensation product or an organic azido compound as the photosensitive compound and a high molecular weight polymer with pendant alkenylsulfonyl or cycloalkenylsulfonylurethane groups as the binder.
- photo-semiconducting layers such as e.g. in DE-A 11 17 391, 15 22 497, 15 72 312, 23 22 046 and 23 22 047 are described, to which support materials are applied, which results in highly light-sensitive, electrophotographic layers.
- the materials roughened by the method according to the invention for printing plate supports have a uniform surface topography, which has a positive effect on the support stability and the water flow when printing printing forms made from these supports influenced. There are few “scars” (distinctive depressions compared to the roughening of the surroundings); these can even be almost completely suppressed. These surface properties can be achieved without any great expenditure on equipment.
- the simultaneous action of chloride ions and a wetting agent inhibitor may accelerate hole passivation and induce a finer surface structure.
- the addition of fluorine compounds can intensify this effect, so that such an addition is a preferred embodiment.
- the sheets were roughened with direct current under the conditions given in the table.
- the quality of the roughening was determined visually using a microscope.
- a classification into 10 quality levels was carried out, whereby a completely homogeneously roughened and scar-free surface was given quality level “1”.
- Quality level "10” received a completely unevenly roughened surface (very different roughness depths) and / or a surface that had thick scars of more than 100 flm depth.
- the plates roughened according to the examples according to the invention were subjected to a conventional stress test in distilled water at room temperature for 17 hours. A rust attack could not be found after this time.
- the panels were also subjected to a corrosion test at room temperature with an aqueous NaCl solution of 50 g / l for 5 hours. Even at bending points, no trace of rust could be detected after this time.
- the plates produced according to the comparative examples without a wetting agent inhibitor showed marked rust attack in distilled water after 17 hours in the above-mentioned tests. Significant traces of rust appeared after about 2 hours in the NaCI test. After five hours of treatment, the sheets were completely rusty.
- a steel plate was treated in an electrolyte solution consisting of 40 g / l hydrochloric acid, 10 g / l sodium fluoride, 5 g / l dodecor 2725 and 27 g / l iron chloride.
- the plate was roughened with direct current with a current density of 60 A / dm 2 within a period of 30 seconds.
- the thus treated plate was rinsed with water to remove the adhering electrolyte and dried.
- the roughened plate was provided with a positive working copy layer.
- the copy layer consisted of
- cresol-formaldehyde novolak (with a softening range of 105-120 ° C according to DIN 53181)
- the plate produced in this way was able to produce about 25,000 prints without any interference.
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