EP0570879B1 - Procédé et dispositif pour effacer la couche d'alimentation d'encre sur la surface d'une forme d'impression imagée - Google Patents

Procédé et dispositif pour effacer la couche d'alimentation d'encre sur la surface d'une forme d'impression imagée Download PDF

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EP0570879B1
EP0570879B1 EP93107980A EP93107980A EP0570879B1 EP 0570879 B1 EP0570879 B1 EP 0570879B1 EP 93107980 A EP93107980 A EP 93107980A EP 93107980 A EP93107980 A EP 93107980A EP 0570879 B1 EP0570879 B1 EP 0570879B1
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
    • B41N—PRINTING PLATES OR FOILS; MATERIALS FOR SURFACES USED IN PRINTING MACHINES FOR PRINTING, INKING, DAMPING, OR THE LIKE; PREPARING SUCH SURFACES FOR USE AND CONSERVING THEM
    • B41N3/00—Preparing for use and conserving printing surfaces
    • B41N3/006—Cleaning, washing, rinsing or reclaiming of printing formes other than intaglio formes
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
    • B41C—PROCESSES FOR THE MANUFACTURE OR REPRODUCTION OF PRINTING SURFACES
    • B41C1/00—Forme preparation
    • B41C1/10—Forme preparation for lithographic printing; Master sheets for transferring a lithographic image to the forme
    • B41C1/1091—Forme preparation for lithographic printing; Master sheets for transferring a lithographic image to the forme by physical transfer from a donor sheet having an uniform coating of lithographic material using thermal means as provided by a thermal head or a laser; by mechanical pressure, e.g. from a typewriter by electrical recording ribbon therefor

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  • the invention relates to a method and a device for repeatedly erasing the ink-carrying layer from the surface of an imaged printing form suitable for offset printing and for hydrophilizing this surface for the purpose of repeated imaging.
  • a printing cylinder with a ceramic cylinder jacket or a solid ceramic or glass cylinder can also be used as the printing form.
  • printing forms illustrated in the manner described above must be regenerated, i.e. the material forming the printing areas must be removed or erased and, if necessary, the printing form surface must then additionally be subjected to a hydrophilization treatment.
  • the erasing of the surface of the printing form is usually carried out after the printing process.
  • the inking and dampening unit is first switched off and the remaining remnants of the printing ink on the forme cylinder are removed using the cleaning devices customary in the machine.
  • This method enables reactive deletion of organic substance parts on the surface of the printing form which have been applied to it by means of ink-jet, electrostatic as well as thermal transfer methods.
  • the invention has for its object to develop a method for deleting the ink-carrying layer (layers, inks, toners) for such an illustrated printing form, after which repeated imaging of the water-carrying layer of the printing form is possible, which is comparatively simpler and easier Facility for performing the method allows.
  • Fig. 1 denotes a flat printing plate and thus outside of a printing press
  • 2 denotes an extinguishing device carrying a water jet 3.
  • Very small image elements 4 corresponding in size to a pixel were detached from the coating of a thermal transfer film and placed on the printing form 1. They have solidified on the surface of the printing form 1 and, because of their oleophilic properties, form the ink-carrying layer on the water-carrying 5 of the printing form 1.
  • These elements 4 have been greatly enlarged in the drawing in order to be able to represent them at all.
  • the extinguishing device 2 essentially has a nozzle 6, which can be connected using the means of a commercially available high-pressure cleaning system, such as are known, for example, from car washes.
  • the nozzle 6 is directed obliquely onto the surface of the printing form 1, so that the water jet 3 strikes the surface of the printing form 1 at an angle ⁇ , which is less than 90 °.
  • the nozzle 6 can be guided either manually or automatically line by line and lengthwise in the direction of arrow a over the printing form 1, so that the water jet 3 can detach the image elements 4 from the water-bearing layer 5 of the printing form 1.
  • An area 7 that has already been deleted can be seen in the direction of arrow a behind the extinguishing device 2.
  • FIG. 2 A second example of an application of the invention is shown in FIG. 2.
  • a printing form 8 is mounted on a plate cylinder 9, the method for repeatedly erasing the ink-carrying layer, which is represented by the picture elements 10, is thus carried out within the printing press.
  • An erasing device 11 is fixedly arranged in the printing press across the width of an area of the surface of the printing form 8.
  • the extinguishing device 11 has a plurality of nozzles 12, which are arranged in a line across the width of the printing form 8, in an analogous manner to the first example using the means of a commercially available high-pressure cleaning system and a plurality of jets 13 of a medium under pressure, preferably water at an angle , which is less than 90 ° on the surface of the printing form 8, while the printing form 8 is rotated under the quenching device 11.
  • the arrangement and number of nozzles 12 is selected so that the entire surface of the printing form 8 can be erased.
  • the nozzles 12 of the extinguishing device 11 have an encapsulation that is open toward the printing form 8 to protect the environment, the capsule 14 defining a working space 15 and being provided with a further opening 16 for disposal of the water introduced into the working space 15 and the removed coating.
  • the opening 16 is usually via a nozzle 17 to a pump, not shown connectable.
  • the capsule 14 is advantageously provided with suitable sealing elements 18 for placement on the printing form 8.
  • the advantageous sealing of the working space 15 against the printing form 8 takes place in the manner known from the sealing technology of rotary unions, for example in the form of sliding seals or through the use of ferrofluids.
  • the erasing device with its sealing elements is lifted off the printing form.
  • the arrangement of the extinguishing device is possible at all freely accessible locations on the circumference of the printing form cylinder (eg also "overhead”)
  • the water is kept in the extinguishing device 2 or 11 at least under a pressure which is greater than 5 bar.
  • a pressure which is greater than 5 bar.
  • the ink-carrying layer can be removed quickly and completely, preferably at a pressure of 100 bar and a water temperature of approximately 90.degree.
  • this can be done in a known manner by means of one or more radiation sources arranged in the interior of the plate cylinder 9, which are directed onto the inner lateral surface of the printing form 8 and cause the temperature on the surface of the printing form 8 to rise almost to the melting point of the substance forming the picture elements can.
  • the plate cylinder will advantageously be made of glass or glass ceramic.
  • the erasing device 2, 11 can be lifted far away from the printing form surface, so that there is always space for, for example, a CPT imaging unit in the printing press.
  • a gravure cylinder filled by a thermal transfer method can also be erased, that is to say the surface of the cylinder which is completely provided with cups and is filled with an organic substance in non-image-guiding regions.

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  1. Procédé pour effacer la couche d'adduction d'encre de la surface d'une forme d'impression dont l'image est formée et qui convient pour l'impression offset, et pour rendre hydrophile cette surface, au moyen de la formation répétée de l'image, caractérisé en ce qu'on dirige un jet d'eau (3,13) placé sous pression et exempt de solvant, au moyen d'un dispositif d'effacement (2,11), obliquement sur la surface de la forme d'impression (1,8) sur laquelle l'image est formée, qu'on exécute un déplacement relatif entre la forme d'impression (1,8) et le dispositif d'effacement (2,11) de telle sorte que les éléments d'image (4,10) sont éliminés sur l'ensemble de la surface de la forme d'impression (1,8) et que simultanément la surface de la forme d'impression (1,8) est rendue hydrophile.
  2. Procédé selon la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce que le retrait de la couche d'adduction d'encre, qui est déposée au moyen du procédé de transfert thermique, à partir de la surface de la forme d'impression (1,11) est facilité par l'action d'une chaleur.
  3. Procédé selon la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce que le jet (3,13) est maintenu sous une pression qui est supérieure à 5 x 105 Pa (5 bars).
  4. Procédé selon la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce que le jet d'eau (3,13) est maintenu à une pression d'environ 107 Pa (100 bars) et que la température de l'eau est réglée à environ 90°C.
  5. Procédé selon la revendication 2, caractérisé en ce qu'on chauffe la forme d'impression (1,8), de sorte que la température atteint, sur sa surface, presque le point de fusion de la substance formant les éléments d'image (4,10).
  6. Procédé selon l'une des revendications précédentes, caractérisé en ce que le dispositif d'effacement (2), qui guide le jet (3) de l'eau sous pression, est guidé ligne par ligne transversalement et longitudinalement sur toute la surface de la forme d'impression (1).
  7. Procédé selon l'une des revendications précédentes, caractérisé en ce que la forme d'impression (8) est balayée, à l'aide d'un dispositif d'effacement (11), qui s'étend sur toute la largeur de la forme d'impression, au moyen du jet (13) de l'eau sous pression, tandis que la forme d'impression (8) est déplacée en rotation au-dessous du dispositif d'effacement (11).
  8. Dispositif pour effacer d'une manière répétée la couche d'adduction d'encre de la surface d'une forme d'impression, sur laquelle l'image est formée et qui convient pour l'impression offset, et pour rendre hydrophile cette surface, caractérisé en ce qu'un dispositif d'effacement (2,11), qui guide un jet d'eau sans solvant (3,13), est dirigé sur la surface de la forme d'impression (1,8), que le dispositif d'effacement (2,11) possède au moins une buse (6,12), à l'aide de laquelle le jet d'eau (3,13) est envoyé de telle sorte qu'il rencontre obliquement la surface de la forme d'impression (1,8), sur laquelle l'image est formée, et que la forme d'impression (1,8) et le dispositif d'effacement (2,11) peuvent être déplacés l'un par rapport à l'autre.
  9. Dispositif selon la revendication 8, caractérisé en ce que le dispositif d'effacement (11) est monté fixe dans la machine d'impression de telle sorte qu'une pulvérisation peut être appliquée sur une zone de la surface de la forme d'impression (8), sur toute sa largeur, à l'aide d'un jet (13), tandis que la forme d'impression (8) peut être déplacée en rotation au-dessous du dispositif d'effacement.
  10. Dispositif selon les revendications 8 et 9, caractérisé en ce que les buses (12) du dispositif d'effacement (11) possèdent un capot, qui est ouvert en direction de la forme d'impression (8), le capot (14) définissant une chambre de travail (15) et étant pourvu d'une autre ouverture (16) servant à évacuer le jet introduit dans l'espace de travail (15) et le revêtement détaché.
EP93107980A 1992-05-20 1993-05-17 Procédé et dispositif pour effacer la couche d'alimentation d'encre sur la surface d'une forme d'impression imagée Expired - Lifetime EP0570879B1 (fr)

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