Printing inventions 11/05

20050257700 - Laser-assisted replication method: The invention concerns an apparatus and a process for producing a marking on a substrate. Substrates marked in that way are applied to documents such as for example credit cards, personal identity cards or banknotes as security features to provide protection from forgery. Embodiments of those security features have diffractive...

20050257701 - Apparatus and method for printing cylindrical surfaces: A printing machine having a closed cup ink supply system for printing cylindrical items. The printing machine includes a printing module which comprises a housing, a pair of pulleys rotatably supported by the housing and endless metal band disposed about the pulleys and having an etched printing image ink receiving...

20050257702 - Printing machines comprising several printing groups: A printing machine is comprised of several printing groups, at least one dryer and at least one folding apparatus. At least two of the printing groups are arranged side by side in the axial direction of the cylinders in the printing groups. A longitudinal direction of the dryer extends perpendicular...

20050257705 - Apparatus for the transportation of printing sleeves: An apparatus for transporting printing sleeves is provided. The transport apparatus includes a housing with a bottom wall, a plurality of side walls, and at least one cover. A plurality of reception devices are mounted in the housing. Each reception device receives a printing sleeve in a vertically oriented transport...

20050257704 - Method for lateral adjustment of a directly driven load without shifting the entire drive assembly: This invention uses a combination of a rotor (rotating) component of an electromagnet motor that is integrated as part of a driven rotational load and immersed within an longer stator (stationary) component of the motor allowing for axial motion of the load (rotor) independent of the motor stator and housing....

20050257703 - Printing cylinder supporting unit, use of printing cylinder supporting unit, and printing machine provided with printing cylinder supporting unit: Printing cylinder supporting unit for a printing machine, with a supporting frame (27) aid supporting means mounted on said supporting frame for rotatably supporting one of several printing cylinders (1), which are designed so that in the operating state they make contact along a contact line (6) with a substrate...

20050257707 - Internally piped print cylinder and method for making same: A print cylinder having a first header, a second header and a hollow cylinder body is internally piped. The first header includes an air inlet and an air outlet. The air outlet is sealingly connected to a central conduit which is sealingly attached to a disk, the disk being sealed...

20050257706 - Printing machines: A device for fixing a printing sleeve (3), in particular a printing form or a blanket drum, to a drive cylindrical shaft (1) on which a deformable cover (2) is arranged between the printing sleeve (3) and the shaft (1). The surface of the shaft (1) is grooved by a...

20050257708 - Graphic-arts laser imaging with reduced-length laser cavities and improved performance: Cavity lasers exhibit a relatively high beam quality (e.g., M2<1.25) despite a relatively small cavity length (e.g., 50-53 mm) for a high (e.g., ≧10 watt) output power device. This enables the construction of physically smaller laser and optical assemblies without sacrificing performance. Reduction of optical photonic interference, which can impair...

20050257709 - Systems and methods for three-dimensional lithography and nano-indentation: Systems and methods for three dimensional lithography, nano-indentation, and combinations thereof are disclosed. One exemplary three dimensional lithography method, among others, includes: providing a substrate having at least one optical element, wherein the optical element is selected from a refractive element and a diffractive element; disposing a polymer layer on...

20050252390 - Transparent electrothermal body and the method of making it: A method for making a transparent electrothermal body includes: a) plating ITO (indium tin oxide) onto a surface of a transparent substrate to form an ITO film, and b) printing a conducting material onto a surface of the ITO film to form two connecting portions each electrically connected to the...

20050252392 - Method of seamless printing on clothing and articles made therefrom: A method of printing design seamlessly on clothing, and clothing obtained thereby are provided. The method includes steps of placing a cylindrical cover around a print cylinder, placing a print medium, on which a design is printed, around the cylindrical cover, placing a cloth around print medium, and heating the...

20050252391 - Seamless printing device: A printing device for seamless printing on a cloth is provided. A design is transferred from a print medium to the cloth. The device includes a print cylinder and a heater heating the print cylinder. The print medium is wrapped around the print cylinder, and the cloth is wrapped around...

20050252393 - Base for a screen printing machine: A carousel screen printing machine which includes a stationary frame supporting a plurality of print heads, a rotatable central column supporting a plurality of pallet support arms and a base for the rotatable column consisting of two base frame members joined at one end and extending away from each other...

20050252394 - Screen printer print arm: A print arm for a screen printing machine of the type having radial print arms and radial pallet arms that rotate relative to the print arms the print arms incorporating a detachable print carriage drive assembly from which the print carriage is suspended the print carriage drive assembly incorporation an...

20050252395 - Screen printing apparatus and screen printing method: In a screen printing apparatus for contacting a lower surface of a mask plate with a substrate and moving a squeezee in a sliding motion on an upper surface of the mask plate thereby printing a paste onto the substrate, mask bend preventing members are mounted on conveying rails at...

20050252396 - Method and apparatus for managing box finishing machine: A computer network is used to manage and monitor operation of a box-finishing machine which prints information on and cuts or creases corrugated boards to be formed into boxes. The equipment used on the machine is provided with radio frequency information tags detected by an electronic reader which transmits the...

20050252397 - Offset lithographic printing press having seamed sleeved printing blanket: An offset lithographic printing press combined with a gapped or seamed cylindrical offset printing blanket having pre-made blanket material mounted on a cylindrical sleeve is disclosed, wherein conventional, manufactured blanket material in flat form is adhered to a cylindrical sleeve to economically produce a cylindrical sleeved blanket. The leading and...

20050252398 - Pattern form object and a manufacturing method thereof: A pattern form object and its manufacturing method are disclosed. The pattern form object includes a pattern constituted by an aggregate of grains, a supporting member for supporting the pattern, and a mixed layer formed at a boundary of the pattern and the supporting member. The mixed layer is constituted...

20050252399 - Apparatus and method for changing printing sleeves on a printing machine: The invention provides an apparatus for the mounting and/or demounting of at least two printing sleeves outside a printing unit of a printing machine. The printing sleeves include an outer printing sleeve forming a printing surface and an inner printing sleeve providing diameter compensation between the outer printing sleeve and...

20050252401 - Device and method for pressing a tympan to a cylinder of a printing machine by means of pressing elements: A dressing is pressed against a surface of a cylinder of a printing machine by the use of pressing elements. Several such dressings may be arranged next to each other in the axial direction of the cylinder. The pressing elements, used in connection with one of the plurality of dressings,...

20050252400 - Device for guiding a tympan on a cylinder of a printing machine: A dressing is guided onto a cylinder of a printing machine. At least one roller element is used to accomplish this dressing guidance. A support, which includes spaced first and second ends, is provided. The first end of the support is connected to a cross-piece that is running along parallel...

20050252402 - Method for operating a developing machine and developing machine: This invention relates to a method for operating a developing machine for producing printing plates, in particular offset printing plates, preferably in a CTP process. According to said method, contaminated liquid developer is fed to a separator to be treated. At least some of the contaminants are separated from the...

20050247216 - Rapid prototyping and filling commercial pipeline: Methods and apparatus provide a means to rapidly develop and modify prototype surface coverings for customer review and approval, and fill the commercial pipeline while more conventional production equipment is obtained, installed and tested. The present apparatus to rapid prototype and fill the commercial pipeline includes a digital printing system...

20050247218 - Damping unit for a press: A damping unit for a press has means for applying a damping solution to a printing form and means for setting the quantity of damping solution applied. At least one sensor is provided for registering the quantity of damping solution actually applied to the printing form. By means of a...

20050247217 - System for driving damping rollers in rotary printing machines: A system for driving the damping roller in rotary printing machines. The system has a driving mechanism for the damping roller, while the plate cylinder is being driven separately by an individual driving mechanism, for realizing the delta mode of operation. In this mode of operation, the driving mechanism of...

20050247219 - Method and device for initial adjustment of the register of the engraved cylinders of a rotary multicolour press: To adjust peripheral register of engraved cylinders, the positions of a respective angular register mark arranged on each cylinder is measured with respect to a zero reference, and an angular printing mark characteristic of the position of the engraving is associated with each cylinder. The data of the job to...

20050247220 - Method and device for adjusting a rotary roller printing machine crop mark: In order to control the cut register of a web (1) in a web-fed rotary press, a pulling device (Z3) which transports the web (1) is changed with regard to its circumferential speed....

20050247221 - Method and apparatus for producing printing forms: A method for producing a printing form of a rewritable type erases the surface of the printing form and than images the erased surface to provide a permanent and erasable image on the surface. The erasure and imaging of the surface of the printing form are carried out in such...

20050247222 - Method of making a photopolymer sleeve blank having an integral cushion layer for flexographic printing: A method of making a photopolymer sleeve blank for use in flexographic printing is provided which includes providing a base sleeve, applying a cushion layer over the base sleeve, applying an optional barrier layer over the cushion layer, and applying a photopolymer layer over the barrier or cushion layer. The...

20050247223 - Printing plate material, printing plate and printing process: Disclosed are a printing plate employing its printing material comprising a polyester support with no coating imperfection, excellent dot image quality, rich ink receptivity at the beginning of printing and excellent ink stain elimination property in non-image portions, and the printing process thereof. Specifically provided is the printing plate material...

20050247224 - Computer-to-conductive anodized and grained plate platesetting system and apparatus: A platesetting system and apparatus for providing computer-to-plate electrophotographic printing to a conductive plate. The apparatus may include an electrophotographic printer adapted to include an electrically isolated media path for receiving a conductive plate. A conductive plate may include anodized and grained aluminum (AL) that does not include a light...

20050247225 - Method and apparatus for producing printing forms: A printing image is provided on a rewritable surface of a printing form within a press. The steps of providing the image, including erasing the surface, generating the image on the surface, fixing the imaged surface, and conditioning the imaged surface, are carried out in a section-by-section manner over the...

20050247226 - Printing members having solubility-transition layers and related methods: Solubility transitions rather than ablation mechanisms facilitate selective removal of the imaging layer of a lithographic plate, which allows for imaging with low-power lasers that need not impart ablation-inducing energy levels....

20050247227 - Method and apparatus for the transport of printing plates: An apparatus positions a plate cylinder and a blanket cylinder in a transport position for assisting in transporting printing plates. The apparatus spaces the blanket cylinder and plate cylinder apart from one another such that a pressure acting on a printing plate during the printing operation is reduced in the...

20050247228 - Apparatus with slide-in unit and coating device attached thereto: An apparatus is provided comprising a slide-in unit including at least one plate cylinder, one image-carrying cylinder and one counter-pressure cylinder operatively arranged relative to one another. A coating device, comprising a doctor blade inking device and an application roller, are operatively arranged relative to the slide-in unit to apply...

20050247229 - Web printing press and method for controlling print-to-cut and/or circumferential register: A method for controlling a print-to-cut register in a shaftless web printing press having a first print unit having a first plate cylinder and first blanket cylinder for printing a web, at least one independent drive for the first print unit, and a folder having a cross cutter for cutting...

20050241501 - Method for roller adjustment in a printing press: Methods for performing a roller adjustment in a printing press include an axial spacing adjustment and an oblique position adjustment. The oblique position adjustment is carried out along a straight line of movement which extends perpendicularly relative either to another straight line of movement of the axial spacing adjustment or...

20050241502 - Sleeve for a printing machine: The invention relates to a sleeve, particularly a rubber blanket sheath, for a printing machine. The sleeve (10) has a two-layer structure comprising an internal layer designed as support layer (11), and an external layer designed as cover layer (12) and used for the print transfer, with the external or...

20050241503 - Transfer blanket, in particular rubber blanket, for a printing press: The transfer blanket (10), in particular a rubber blanket, for a printing press, has a carrier layer (11), a covering layer (12) and at least one intermediate layer (13, 14, 15) which is positioned between the carrier layer and the covering layer, the carrier layer protruding, compared with at least...

20050241504 - Ink proofer apparatus and system: An ink proofer arrangement includes an ink proofer tool, a cylindrical drum roller, a drive motor adapted to rotate the roller and a first movable mounting assembly to retain the ink proofer tool adjacent to and in a non-contact position with the roller, a first variable pressure assembly coupled to...

20050241505 - Printing press and method for printing two webs: Please add the Abstract of the Disclosure as set forth on the separate accompanying sheet. That Abstract of the Disclosure is essentially the same, in content, as the Abstract which is a part of the published PCT application WO 2004/016429 A1. No new matter is being added by the presentation...

20050241506 - Method for printing an electronic circuit component on a substrate using a printing machine: A method of printing an electronic circuit or components thereof uses a printing machine to print a conductive structure on the front printing side (back side of the sheet) of a printing substrate. The sheet is then reversed and a decorative printing motif is printed on the back side in...

20050241508 - Guide system for forming ink images: An inking system for forming an ink image on an inking surface, comprising a guide system and an inking assembly. The guide system defines at least one side edge surface and is arranged in a desired orientation on the inking surface. The inking assembly is used to form an ink...

20050241507 - Magnetic stamp, kit and method: A magnetic stamp includes a plurality of stamp dies magnetically couplable to a stamp plate. An indicator line is disposed on the stamp plate to align the stamp dies on the stamp plate. The stamp can be disposable within a container with a lid. The stamp dies can be magnetically...

20050241509 - System for thermal development of flexographic printing plates: The present invention is directed to a method and a system for forming a relief image on a photosensitive printing element. The system comprises an enclosure housing a conveyor and a heatable roller. The photosensitive printing element is positioned on a continuous loop of the conveyor and the heatable roller...

20050241510 - Sheet convey apparatus for sheet-fed offset rotary printing press with convertible press mechanism: A sheet convey apparatus for a sheet-fed offset rotary printing press with a convertible mechanism includes a gripper device and a gripper pad shaft. The gripper device swings between a first position to receive a sheet from a chucking cylinder on an upstream side in a sheet convey direction and...

20050241511 - Cylinders of a web-fed printing press and printing unit: A cylinder of a printing unit of a web-fed printing press includes a cylinder channel which receives plate ends and includes plate end retaining devices. A remotely controllable actuating device or an actuator is located in the channel. The actuating device, or actuator is preferably a piezoelectric system or is...

20050241512 - Image recording apparatus, notch forming apparatus, and method for use therewith: Punches 44 of punchers 41a to 41d each punch a plate P lying immediately thereunder to form a notch. Then, stopper pins 47 of the punchers 41c and 41d abut with the deepest portion of the notch, such that the plate P is further inserted. The punches 44 of the...

20050241513 - Method for forming black matrix of liquid crystal display device: A method for forming black matrixes of a liquid crystal display device is provided that includes preparing a transparent substrate, printing first black matrixes on the substrate, and printing second black matrixes on the first black matrixes....

20050241514 - Apparatus for clamping and holding a printing plate on an exposure drum: In the field of electronic reproduction technology, an apparatus for clamping and holding a printing plate on the surface of an exposure drum in a printing plate exposer includes a clamping apparatus for the front edge of the printing plate. The clamping apparatus has actuating elements that are accommodated in...

20050241515 - Apparatus for producing a printing image by means of a laser: In an apparatus for producing a printing image on a printing medium held by a cylinder (1) by a laser, the laser writing head (7) of which is positioned on a crossmember (3) so as to be displaceable parallel to the axis of the cylinder (1), a space-saving functionally reliable...

20050241517 - Method and apparatus for providing and transferring cassettes for printing plates: A method and an apparatus provide and transfer cassettes for printing plates to a device for removing printing plates from a cassette. The cassettes are stored in compartments disposed above one another in a magazine and are introduced into the magazine and removed through a loading opening. The cassettes are...

20050241516 - System and method for interleaf sheet and/or plate sheet removal and/or transport for use with a printing apparatus: The present invention relates generally to systems and methods that remove an interleaf sheet interposed between plate sheets from a material stack used, for example, in a computer-to-plate imaging system and/or environment. Embodiments of the system and method can also remove plate sheets from an interleaf sheet, and transport the...

20050241518 - Apparatus for pulling off sleeves: In an apparatus for pulling off sleeves (11, 14) which are applied to cylinders (10, 15) of a printing press, a force for pulling off the sleeve is applied in a gentle manner, in that a retaining rod (5), having a retaining head (1) which can be fixed to the...

20050241519 - Heat sink vacuum plate for printing press ultraviolet curing system: A sheet transfer assembly for use above an ultraviolet curing unit in a flexographic printing press used for printing corrugated sheets includes a vacuum plate with heat sinks. The vacuum plate includes openings for rollers that extend through the vacuum plate to drive printed sheets across the bottom of the...