Article: Japanese Inventors Develop Printing Plate Material

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 10 -- Takeshi Sampei of Mitaka, Japan, and Saburou Hiraoka of Machida, Japan, have developed a printing plate material, a process of folding the same, and a printing process.

According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are a printing plate material capable of being folded by heating, a printing process employing the printing plate material and a process of folding the printing plate material, the printing plate material comprising a support and provided thereon, an image formation layer, the support being a polyester sheet with a thickness dispersion of not more then 10%."

The inventors were issued U.S. Patent No. 7,086,333 on Aug. 8.

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