Patent ID: 8551286

Claim:
A method of mounting a printing plate to an impression cylinder, said method comprising mounting said printing plate to said impression cylinder with an adhesive tape comprising a carrier and a layer of adhesive applied on at least one side of the carrier, the carrier comprising at least one foam layer comprising a polyolefin-based polymer, wherein the polyolefin-based polymer comprises 100% of an ethylene multi-block copolymer, the ethylene multi-block copolymer being composed of semi crystalline blocks, comprising at least 95% (w/w) of ethylene and a comonomer of 1-Octene, and of amorphous blocks, comprising ethylene and a comonomer, the fraction of comonomer in the amorphous blocks being between 10 and 20 mol% and the foam having a density of 30 to 300 kg/m 3 .