The invention concerns a compressible plate for flexographic printing, designed to be positioned on a support cylinder of a printing machine. The polyimidemetal laminates are excellent in adhesion under the ordinary conditions and, moreover, can sustain the adhesive strength at a high ratio after exposure to high temperature or high temperature and high humidity. IO request related work for a received IO request directed to the storage is processed by determining the DMA engine assigned to the processor processing the IO request related work and accessing the determined DMA engine to perform the IO related work. Each block has an offset based on the number of entries in the blocks preceding it in order. Another communication terminal includes a housing having a display portion and an operation portion disposed therein; and a non-contact communication portion for conducting close range wireless communication.