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New Technologies for the Filmless Manufacture of Printing Forms
Author(s) -
Vollmann Hansjörg W.
Publication year - 1980
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition in english
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 0570-0833
DOI - 10.1002/anie.198000991
Subject(s) - reproduction , information storage , process (computing) , transfer printing , nanotechnology , computer science , engineering , process engineering , mechanical engineering , materials science , ecology , database , biology , operating system
The economic reproduction of graphic information was first made possible in the western world by Gutenberg's invention of movable type. In the printing methods of that time, mechanical transfer processes played the major role, while chemical processes were of secondary importance. When Alois Senefelder invented planographic printing (lithoprinting) at the end of the 18th century he called the new process “chemical printing”. Since then, chemistry has attained great importance in the production of printing forms: Thus the manufacture of surface (litho‐) printing forms with light required temporary storage materials and image reproduction processes based on chemical reactions. Since the advent of electronic processing of information, however, several former temporary storage media have become obsolete; newer, more sensitive image reproduction processes are increasingly making less use of chemical principles than of the electrical properties of materials.