Printing inventions 04/06

20060086266 - Embossing unit and relative production method: In an embossing unit, sheet material is fed between a first and at least one second embossing roller rotating in opposite direction and having first and second outer embossing tips respectively, and at least the first embossing roller has a metal core covered with a ceramic cylindrical jacket connected integrally...

20060086267 - Embossing assembly for sheet material: An embossing assembly for sheet material includes at least two embossing rollers, the ends of which are rotatably mounted in the side panels of an embossing machine. Each of the side panels is divided into a fixed portion and at least one movable portion. The ends of the embossing rollers...

20060086268 - Squeegee unit for a rotary screen-printing device: A squeegee unit for a rotary screen-printing device comprises a squeegee (2) with a squeegee edge (3) which is designed, during operation of a rotary screen-printing device in which the squeegee unit is mounted, to be pressed onto the inner side of a cylindrical screen of the rotary screen-printing device,...

20060086269 - Method and apparatus for printing conductive ink: Conductive ink is printed onto a wafer held on a vertically movable stage by using a squeegee to force the conductive ink through a stencil. The stencil is supported from below by a supporting member adjacent to the periphery of the stage. After the conductive ink has been printed through...

20060086270 - Method and device for keeping a number of spray nozzles in a printing press beam clean: In order to keep a spray nozzle (3) in a printing press spray beam (1) clean, air with a certain overpressure is supplied to a cover (5; 13; 24) surrounding the spray nozzle (3), the spray cone from the spray nozzle leaving the cover undisturbed through a slot (7; 16;...

20060086271 - Offset lithographic printing press: An improved printing press includes a tubular-shaped printing blanket removably disposed on a blanket cylinder rotatably supported by a frame and having an outer circumferential surface. The printing blanket is disposed in rolling engagement with a conventional printing plate disposed on a plate cylinder having an axially extending gap in...

20060086272 - Web cleaner: The invention is relates a web cleaning apparatus including: a pair of operatively rotating cleaning rollers operatively disposed on opposite sides of the web; a housing surrounding a major part of the surface of each roller; a vacuum chamber substantially co-extensive with each roller; a longitudinal slot extending parallel to...

20060086273 - Lithographic printing plate comprising a porous non-anodic layer: A printing plate comprises a substantially planar substrate, a porous non-anodic ungrained coating, having a thickness within the range of about 0.1 to about 30 microns and comprising at least one of metals, metal oxides and admixtures thereof, and an image recording layer, provided that where the porous coating consists...

20060086274 - Apparatus for the rapid development of photosensitive printing elements: This invention pertains to a system for thermally treating a photosensitive element to form a relief structure suitable for flexographic printing. The system of the invention comprises a plurality of consecutively arranged blotting stations for removing uncured photopolymer from the imaged surface of the photosensitive printing element. The flexographic plates...

20060086275 - Determining a speed of media: In one embodiment, a method includes applying at least one invisible mark to media, sensing the at least one invisible mark with separate sensors, and determining a speed of the media from signals of the separate sensors....

20060086276 - Method for setting the cut register in a web-fed rotary press: A method for setting the cut register in a web-fed rotary press includes assigning a cut register function to a predetermined speed function, wherein the predetermined speed function describes a time curve of an operating speed of the rotary press starting from a predetermined initial value and the cut register...

20060081137 - Sequential numbering of pieces obtained by injection: A numbering apparatus incorporates a push rod which is pushed mechanically by an ejector plate or other mechanism of an injection mold in each injection process. The push rod moves, in a linear direction, a link attached to a central cylinder which turns inside wheels having, on their outer face,...

20060081138 - Method and apparatus for supporting and clamping a substrate: A stencil printer for printing viscous material on a substrate includes a frame, a stencil coupled to the frame, and a print head, coupled for the frame, to deposit and print viscous material over the stencil. The stencil printer further includes a substrate supporting and clamping assembly to support and...

20060081139 - Methods for controlling both a first roll, which takes up a dampening agent from a dampening agent source, as well as a second roll, and dampening systems: A first roller, which takes up dampening fluid from a dampening agent reservoir, and a second roller, are controlled. The first roller transfers the dampening fluid to the second roller. The first roller and the second roller have separate driving devices and their individual surface velocities differ from each other...

20060081140 - Inboard cantilever cylinder support for printing presses: A printing press having inboard cantilevered cylinder supports is disclosed. The press includes a frame with a drive side spaced from a non-drive side, and the press includes a cylinder defining an having an axis and having a drive end and a non-drive end. The drive end includes a drive...

20060081141 - Printing press ink supply system for thixoptropic inks: An ink supply system for a printing press for thixotropic inks includes a coating head having a chamber open to a coating cylinder. The chamber includes a supply zone, a return zone and a pressure zone and having a small volume such that all ink contained in the zones is...

20060081142 - 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...

20060081143 - Modular printing unit: In order to provide a printing unit (1; 50) of modular design with the lowest possible expenditure on construction and high flexibility, the printing unit (1; 50) of modular design for printing webs (29) has a stand (2; 2′; 54), which is provided with at least one crossmember (3; 4;...

20060081144 - Method of printing an image on a metallic surface, particularly on a coin surface: A method of printing on a metal surface includes steps of forming a plurality of macropores on at least a portion of a metal surface. A plurality of micropores are formed within and adjacent to the macropores. The metal surface is cleaned, and a first ink having a first color...

20060081145 - Image forming apparatus having function of measuring moment of inertia and friction coefficient and method of measuring the same: An image forming apparatus and method are provided for measuring a moment of inertia and friction coefficient in the image forming apparatus. The image forming apparatus includes a printing unit for printing an image on a medium, and a parameter calculating unit for measuring at least one of a current...

20060075908 - Apparatus for printing objects of the tablet type, in particular medical tablets and process therefor: Printing apparatus for printing relatively small light objects having a certain fragility and/or porosity, in particular of the tablet type, more particularly medical tablets (6), comprising a movable print head (25), a printing liquid tank (30), and a conveyor unit (32) supplying and discharging the objects to be printed (6)...

20060075909 - Printer: A printer of the present invention allows a plurality of sheet feeding apparatuses, each having a particular sheet feed speed range adaptive to a plurality of print speeds, to be selectively connected thereto. When any one of the sheet feeding apparatuses is connected to the printer, a controller automatically sets...

20060075910 - Method of producing logos or color codes for weight plates and weight heads: Present invention provides a cost-effective method for imprinting private logos, customized labels, or any poundage numbers onto the surface of weight plates and weight heads. A clear layer of urethane or polyurethane coating is applied to the outside of weight plates/heads after silk-screen printing is done, achieving great flexibility and...

20060075911 - Printing machine: A variable printing machine is embodied in the form of at least two offset printing apparatus (1) and includes a frame bearing an opposite cylinder against which a blanket (11) to be printed is pressed by a blanket drum. Printing ink is supplied to a printing cylinder which contacts the...

20060075912 - Stamp housing assembly: A stamp housing assembly has a shell and a cover. The cover selectively attaches to the shell of the stamp to cover a stamp face assembly. With the shell oriented 180° relative to the cover, the cover does not attach to the shell, but can be used as a stand...

20060075913 - System for roll impregnation: A pre-packaged cleaning system or kit is used for transport, storage and solvent impregnation of one or more fabric rolls used for cleaning components of printing machines. A container holds one or more fabric rolls, and one or more bags containing a solvent. When the rolls are to be used,...

20060075914 - Light-curing ink fixing device, fixing method, and printer: An apparatus for fixing photocurable inks includes: a light source for irradiating light for fixation to a recording side of a recording medium printed with photocurable ink; a fixing member which is disposed in a conveyance path of the printed recording medium, is formed in a cylindrical shape, and can...

20060075915 - Lithographic printing method: A printing method comprising: imagewise exposing a lithographic printing plate precursor comprising a support and an image recording layer being removable with a fountain solution or a combination of a printing ink and a fountain solution and loading the exposed lithographic printing plate precursor on a plate cylinder of a...

20060075917 - Smooth finish uv ink system and method: A printing method includes steps of applying an ink-receptive coating to a substrate; printing an actinic radiation-curable ink jet ink over the coating; and curing the printed ink jet ink. An article printed by the method has a ink-receptive coating layer with a cured print. An apparatus for carrying out...

20060075916 - System and method for ink jet printing of water-based inks using aesthetically pleasing ink-receptive coatings: A system and method for printing aqueous ink jet ink in selected areas of nonabsorbent and semi-nonabsorbent substrates includes applying an ink-receptive coating having an aesthetically pleasing appearance in the selected areas, for example with printing station having a printing and drying unit for applying the ink-receptive coating in the...

20060075918 - Image processing method, image processing device and image forming system: This invention provides an image processing device and a printing apparatus that obviate the need for manual processing on the part of the user or operator and which can automatically perform an optimum image correction without using added information such as photographing information. For this purpose, this invention including: a...

20060070536 - Paper pickup unit and image forming apparatus having the same: An image forming apparatus having a paper pickup unit includes a power unit to drive a shaft of the paper pickup unit, wherein the paper pickup unit includes a pressing plate at which a recording medium, such as a sheet of paper, is stacked, a paper feed unit body to...

20060070537 - Mimeographic printing method and device, ink vessel, and mimeograph paper roll: To make the stencil printing at a stabilized density from the start of printing in a stencil printing where a plurality of kinds of inks different from each other in volatility and/or viscosity are used. Information representing the volatility and/or viscosity of ink is stored in a storage means of...

20060070538 - Printing machine, and plate recording apparatus: An image recording apparatus includes a recording head, a recording head move mechanism, and a light quantity correcting device. The recording head has a light source, an optical lens, a light emitting portion and a contact portion. The light quantity correcting device has a light quantity sensor with a light...

20060070539 - Supporting and releasably holding device for a printing cylinder hub: A printing machine color assembly presenting a main or cliché-carrying cylinder (2) and an interlocking or screened cylinder (3), each carried at its hubs (2a, 2b; 3a, 3b) by first (4a; 5a—operator side) and second (4b; 5b—motor side) slidable supports positioned on different sides of the printing machine and parallel...

20060070540 - Spacer sleeve for printing-press cylinders: A sleeve, in particular spacer sleeve, for variable-format printing presses, has at least two metallic layers, and at least one dimensionally stable intermediate layer arranged between a first, inner metallic carrier. layer and a second, outer metallic covering layer. The at least one intermediate layer determines the thickness or wall...

20060070541 - Device for changing over gripper control in a turning configuration of a sheet-processing machine: In a device for changing over a gripper control in a turning configuration of a sheet-processing machine, there is provided a slide to be guided axially displaceably by radial stops. The device changes over a gripper control from recto printing to verso printing on a transfer device such as a...

20060070542 - Printing unit of a printing press and method for carrying out a printing-plate change on a forme cylinder of a printing unit: A printing unit of a printing press includes a forme cylinder and a transfer cylinder and an inking unit. A drive rotates the forme cylinder to a position for effecting a printing plate change on the forme cylinder in response to an actuating signal from a regulating a or control...

20060070543 - Adhesive composition: wherein each A independently is a polymer block of an aromatic vinyl compound, and C is a mixed polymer block (B/I) of butadiene (B) and isoprene (I) in a weight ratio B:I in the range of 30:70 to 70:30, and said polymer block C has a glass transition temperature (Tg)...

20060070544 - Planographic printing plate feeding apparatus: A guide member is provided at a downstream side of a stack of plates in a direction in which a planographic printing plate is conveyed. The guide member abuts a leading edge of an uppermost planographic printing plate to be conveyed, and bends the planographic printing plate, and further, permits...

20060070545 - Ink-receptive card substrate: In a method of forming an ink-receptive card substrate, an ink-receptive material is provided. The ink-receptive material includes a backing layer and an ink-receptive coating on a surface of the backing layer. Next, a card member is provided. Finally, the ink-receptive material is laminated to a surface of the card...

20060070546 - Method and apparatus for printing an image onto a 3-dimensional surface: A printing apparatus (1) for printing an image onto a 3-dimensional surface of a plastics article such as a mobile telephone or computer mouse (not shown) has a housing (2) having a slot (3) for receiving a drawer (4) for receiving one of more of the articles to be printed....