Printing inventions 07/06

20060162582 - Multi-station press machine: A print-finishing press comprises a bed (5) for receiving a workpiece, a hydraulic ram mounted to effect relative movement between the bed and a press tool (9), and pressure control means for selectively pre-setting the hydraulic pressure applied to the ram to any of a number of predetermined levels....

20060162583 - Liquid pressure transfer printing apparatus: A liquid pressure transfer printing apparatus in which a work to be applied with transfer printing is urged onto a film for applying liquid pressure transfer printing supplied to the surface of a liquid in a tank for liquid pressure transfer printing to submerge the film into the liquid comprises...

20060162584 - Apparatus of feeding mailpieces: An apparatus of feeding mailpieces such as envelopes is disclosed. The apparatus includes a supply conveyer for supporting thereon an array of mailpieces which are arranged in a tilted-backward position and moving such mailpieces forward, and a suction feeder which is located downstream of the supply conveyer for picking up...

20060162585 - Numbering process and numbering box to carry out the process: The numbering box for typographic numbering in sheet or web fed printing machines, said box numbering with p digits k*n items on said sheets or web for allowing a sequential collecting of said items in the finishing and collating process of layers of q sheets or of web cut into...

20060162586 - Method for inkjet printing light colors on dark textiles: A method and apparatus for printing on dark textiles such as black t-shirts is disclosed. The method includes screen printing an underbase onto the textile and then using an inkjet printer to print an image over the underbase. In the preferred embodiment, a white, opaque image is screen printed onto...

20060162587 - Centering unit for a silk-screen printing device: A centering system for a screen printing apparatus includes a platform for the placement of a plate to be printed, abutment wheels arranged on the platform, longitudinally adjustable servo shafts, beams, and a stationary frame on which the beams are arranged. The wheels are configured to contact the outside edges...

20060162588 - Four-piece modular frame screen printing assembly: An improved screen printing frame is presented that is assembled from four separately cast screen sides. The screen printing frame is designed to be assembled into a rectangular shape from four lengths of injection-molded or die-cast plastic or metal that are assembled into a rectangular shape. A fabric screen is...

20060162589 - Dampening systems having a dampening agent feeding and return device: A dampening system has at least one dampening ductor or roller; a dampening agent bin or trough, which holds a dampening agent, a feeding device, and a return device. The feeding device includes at least one dampening agent distributing pipe that has a number of spaced openings. A number of...

20060162590 - Dampening water control method and printing apparatus: Line patches m and solid patches s are printed with a subject image, each line patches having at least 200 lines per inch and a duty ratio of at least 60%, to detect densities Dm and Ds. A water coefficient W (=Dm/Ds) is calculated from the detected densities Dm and...

20060162591 - Drive of the inking unit in an intaglio printing machine: The machine comprises at least a plate cylinder carrying printing plates with engravings corresponding to a specific intaglio structure to be printed, and cooperating with an impression cylinder, a collector cylinder (8) on which the ink in the different colours is deposited by selector cylinders (10), each selector cylinder (10)...

20060162592 - Gravure printing unit for printing a printing material web in a printing press: A gravure printing unit for printing a printing material web in a printing press is particularly suited for a label printing press. The unit has at least one gravure cylinder, one ink applicator device, one impression roller and at least one connecting element for releasable accommodation on at least one...

20060162593 - Printing machine, modus operandi of said printing machine and printed products: A printing machine has at least one printing tower that is formed having two stacked satellite printing units. At least one further printing unit is situated on a plane that is above the printing location of the upper satellite printing unit of the at least one printing tower. The printing...

20060162594 - Single color press and method of operating same, and method of manufacturing liquid crystal color filter: An object is to provide a single color press which shortens takt time by eliminating wastefulness from the printing process. There is provided: a first transfer cylinder which transfers an image to a first printing substrate; a first moving carriage which holds the first transfer cylinder in a rotatable manner...

20060162595 - Devices for guiding a partial width web, guide element for guiding a partial width web and processing machine comprising said devices: A web is guided in a processing machine by the use of a device which includes a regular device and at least one further web guiding element. These cooperate to subject the web to an offset or to a change in direction. The regular device and the at least one...

20060162596 - Self-inking stamp with inking from the top and ink cushion container therefor: The invention relates to a self-inking stamp with inking from the top, comprising a housing wherein a stamp unit comprising stamp types and which is coupled to an actuation part is arranged in a displaceable manner. The housing comprises an insertion compartment having at least one insertion opening for an...

20060162597 - Integrated ink rail assembly for a printing press: An integrated ink rail assembly includes at least one page pack mounted directly to a manifold, an ink rail mounted to the manifold, and an orifice rail mounted to the ink rail. An ink source is connected to the page pack. The page pack, manifold, ink rail, and orifice rail...

20060162598 - Devices for the pressing of a tympan to a cylinder of a printing machine and method for tightening or slackening said tympan: A dressing is pressed onto a surface of a cylinder of a printing machine by the use of at least two pressing elements. These two pressing elements are separated from each other in a circumferential direction of the cylinder. A portion of each of the two pressing elements can be...

20060162599 - Method and device for feeding dampening water in offset printing press: A method of feeding appropriate dampening water in an offset printing press, comprising the steps of detecting the viscosity of dampening water at room temperature, selectively adding at least two of water and a surface active agent to the dampening water so that the viscosity of the dampening water becomes...

20060162600 - Method for replacing printing sleeves in a printing press: The invention relates to a process for replacing printing sleeves (7) of a printing machine (1), in which printing sleeves (7) that are not required for the actual printing process are mounted in at least one storage device and the transportation of the printing sleeves (7) necessary for the replacement...

20060156934 - Rotary printing press: A rotary printing press that is selectively usable for different printing technologies. The rotary printing press contains a printing platform that can receive a printing head for a standard flexographic printing process or a printing head for a silk-screen printing process. Therefore, different printing technologies can be realized with the...

20060156935 - Printing blanket with convex carrier layer: A printing blanket includes a carrier sleeve layer having at least one axially convex surface and a print layer disposed over the carrier sleeve layer. A blanket cylinder with a convex outer surface and a convex shim is also provided. An offset printing press is also provided....

20060156936 - Composite pad with enhanced resistance to interlaminar delamination and a method for the manufacture thereof: A composite pad is made of two layers joined together at their interface. The top layer of the composite pad, which has a smooth surface has a dense and firm fine denier fibrous structure. The bottom layer of the composite pad has a lighter and softer coarser denier fibrous structure...

20060156937 - Device comprising a sieve drum, which is radially flown through by a fluid, and permeable bellows that surround the sieve drum: The invention relates to a device comprising a rotationally mounted drum, which is flown through by a fluid from the exterior to the interior. The stable casing of the drum is provided over the periphery thereof with a sieve-shaped hole structure. The inventive device also comprises permeable outer bellows, which...

20060156938 - Cleaning device for printing cylinders: A cleaning device (1, 1′) for printing cylinders of rotary presses is provided. The cleaning device includes a guide rail (2), mounted generally parallel to the printing cylinder, and a washing device (4) is guided on the rail o as to be longitudinally displaceable. The washing device (4) has at...

20060156939 - Inkjet-imageable lithographic printing members and methods of preparing and imaging them: Lithographic printing plates are imaged using an inkjet printer to imagewise apply a chemical or masking agent onto the plate surface. In some embodiments, the chemical causes an affinity change, thereby facilitating lithographic printing....

20060156940 - Laminate film and image protection method using the same: A laminate film for protecting a printed image formed on a recording medium by an ink-jet recording system, comprising a surface layer, an intermediate layer and a penetrative layer formed on a heat-resistant substrate in that order. The surface layer and the intermediate layer have a thermally softening property, the...

20060156941 - Planographic printing method, original printing plate and printing press: In a planographic printing method, an as-per-image distribution of hydrophilic are as and hydrophobic areas is formed by heating the surface of an original plate to a temperature ranging from 40 through 200° C. and irradiation of activation light after uniformly making the layer of a hydrophobic substance on an...

20060156942 - Printing system and method, control device, and computer program product comprising print data integrity monitoring: In a method or system for monitoring of printed data in a printing system, a monitoring code for a respective page to be printed of a recording medium is generated. The monitoring code is printed on the respective page. The printed monitoring code is automatically read and evaluated such that...

20060150833 - Image forming system: An image forming system includes a mounting portion in which an expendable provided with a memory in which distinguishment information representing whether the expendable is compatible is stored is removably installed. The distinguishment information stored in the memory of the expendable installed in the mounting portion is read out, and...

20060150834 - Screen printing machine: The invention relates to a screen-printing machine which comprises a gripping mechanism connected to a printing board used for inputting and outputting a printed article. Said gripping mechanism is provided several grippers which are disposed on a conveyor belt. A flexible and flat support preferably made of fabric is arranged...

20060150835 - Method for driving rollers of a printing unit of a printing press: A method for driving rollers of a printing unit of a printing press, includes driving at least two of the rollers at different speeds for transferring liquid. A change in the torque on one of the rollers is determined. A drive for at least one of the rollers is set...

20060150836 - Device and method for electrophoretic liquid development: In a modularly-designed printing device for high-speed printing, a printing system is provided comprising a combination of a plurality of printing groups operated independent of one another. A printing substrate guidance group is provided that is common to the printing groups and which transports a printing substrate through the printing...

20060150837 - Printing machine and method for printing a print web: In order to print a print web (1) by means of a plurality of printing groups (5), the print web (1) is guided in the region of the printing groups (5) on a support band (10) which is transported at the same speed and multiple printing is carried out by...

20060150838 - Printing press: A printing unit for a web-offset press is disclosed. The printing unit comprises plate and blanket cylinders arranged in couples to print on both sides of a paper web passing between each pair of print couples, and an inking system associated with each print couple when the printing unit is...

20060150839 - Printing unit arrangement in a web-fed rotary printing press: A printing unit arrangement in a web-fed rotary printing press includes at least one printing unit 2a having a first and second plate cylinder 4,6 and associated first and second blanket cylinders 8, 10 which are mechanically coupled via meshing gear wheels and which are commonly driven by one drive...

20060150840 - Digital textile printer: The present invention discloses a digital textile printer including a front and a rear feeding devices driven by a transfer axis within a driving panel of the front and the rear of a base to prevent distortion and wrinkle phenomena generating defective printing to perform effectively the textile printing even...

20060150841 - Printing press: A printing press contains a sheet guiding device which has an edge. The comb-shaped edge is composed at least partially of a material which is substantially not electrically conductive. This material is advantageous with regard to the configuration of a discharging device disposed in the region of the edge, which...

20060150842 - Lock assembly for a stamping device: A lock apparatus for securing a hand-stamping device to prevent an unauthorized stamping operation includes two locking heads constructed to establish a ridged interconnection with the base frame and the upper actuator frame of the hand-stamping device. The locking heads are releasable interconnected by parallel spaced apart struts for connecting...

20060150843 - Printing group of a printing press: The invention relates to a printing unit (3) of a printing machine, preferably a rotary printing machine, which is comprised of at least one ink transfer roller (27), at least one bearing block (4) movable relative to the printing unit frame (2), in which, in the printing position, one end...

20060150844 - Imprinting device for a cosmetic product and method of using same: An imprinting device for a cosmetic product is shown. The imprinting device comprises a transparent substrate having a pair of opposed, substantially parallel spaced surfaces. A first application element is located on and protrudes outwardly from one of the pair of opposed spaced surfaces. The first application element has an...

20060150845 - Clamping device for clamping a flexible covering on a cylinder of a printing machine: A clamping device for clamping a flexible packing (2, 3) of a cylinder (1) of a printing press, which cylinder has an axial channel (6) on a jacket surface, the clamping device includes a clamping body (10), which has a surface (S) that forms in the channel (6) with an...

20060150846 - Lithographic printing method: A lithographic printing method comprising: (i) a process of one of (i-1) imagewise exposing a lithographic printing plate precursor comprising a support and an image-recording layer capable of being removed with at least one of a fountain solution and a printing ink, and mounting the exposed printing plate precursor on...

20060150847 - Inkjet-imageable lithographic printing members and methods of preparing and imaging them: Lithographic printing plates are imaged using an inkjet printer to imagewise apply a chemical or masking agent onto the plate surface. In some embodiments, the chemical causes an affinity change, thereby facilitating lithographic printing....

20060150849 - Imprint lithography: An imprinting method is provided that, according to an embodiment, involves contacting an imprintable medium on a substrate with a template to define an imprint area in the medium, removing at least some of any imprintable medium present outside the imprint area, and separating the template from the medium....

20060150850 - Method of tracing process printing fluids: A method of tracing process printing fluids is described and claimed. The process printing fluids are selected from the group consisting of One-Component Fountain Solutions, Two-Component Fountain Solutions and Web Release Agents. The tracer used is capable of being detected fluorometrically in each process printing fluid of interest....

20060150848 - Personalization of printed items, especially subscription newspapers/magazines: In a method for the production of addressee-specific printed products wherein, for the completion of each printed product, a plurality of printed sheets (120a, 120b, 120c) are assembled for forming inner pages of the finished printed product, provided with a cover page and stapled or bound, an EDP-supported database structure,...

20060150851 - Method and device for coding articles: The invention is about a marking method and a corresponding coding center device for the marking of individual (1), such as security documents, currency, tax excise stamps, labels, pieces of packaging, articles, or transportation means, with pertinent information indicating their nature and/or content, origin and/or destination, etc., and their registration...

20060150853 - Monitoring and adjusting web in a printing press: A printing press machine for processing a web roll of labels, the printing press machine comprises a mark sensor at a predetermined location along the printing press machine for sensing the presence of a mark formed on each label on the web roll, the mark being at substantially the same...

20060150852 - Pre-register adjustment: New and inventive is that the web (4) to be printed, which is fed during the pre-registration to the printing machine (1), has at least one mark, which passes through different printing units during the pre-registration, whereby the time points, at which the mark passes the measuring points in the...

20060150854 - Method and means for producing a magnetically induced design in a coating containing magnetic particles: The invention discloses a device and a method for transferring a predeterminable, high-resolution magnetic design onto a document printed with a magnetic ink, in particular a magnetic optically variable ink. The device comprises a body of a composite permanent-magnetic material, having at least one flat or curved surface engraved with...

20060144260 - Mail distribution methods and apparatus: A method, according to an embodiment, includes executing a print-mail application, on a client device, to perform a print-mail process for a printable item that is selectable by the client device. A user of the client device is prompted for client-specified print-mail information, which includes recipient address information. An electronic...

20060144261 - Printing plastic containers with digital images: A method for printing digital images on plastic containers having curved surfaces, including providing a series of hollow plastic containers, moving the containers along a track past first and second digital printing locations, and printing first and second digital images on the curved container surfaces while maintaining the container being...

20060144262 - Marking apparatus for golf ball and stamp for thereof: A marking apparatus, which is able to mark conveniently a character, a sign and the likes to a golf ball, has a body; and an imprinter joined to the body and having a first curved-surface corresponding to the golf ball. According to the present invention, it is possible to mark...

20060144263 - Stencil printer with a duplex printing capability: Disclosed is a duplex printer which is capable of performing simplex printing without wasting a master and providing a print output with a satisfactory image quality at the time of duplex printing, and which is capable of suppressing an increase in installation space while effecting adjustment on the print image...

20060144264 - Screen printing method and apparatus thereof: A dummy work (DW: a work for printing a reference necessary for subsequent printing) is moved to a printing position while the dummy work is fixed to a work alignment mechanism 2, and solder printing is made. The printed dummy work is then returned to the work alignment position and...

20060144265 - Intaglio printing machine: The invention relates to a printing machine by intaglio engraving comprising a rack with a stationary part and a moving part. A plate cylinder is rotationally mounted inside the stationary part, and an Orlof-type cylinder is mounted inside the moving part. The moving part is mounted on a rail in...

20060144266 - Sensing device: A luminescence sensing device, comprising a plurality of optical sensor subunits, each said subunit comprising UV-illumination means for illuminating a sample; digital camera means, comprising a camera head; mirror means for directing light emitted from said sample onto said camera head; and a digital signal processor unit (DSP), processing signals...

20060144267 - Hand-held ink stamper with spare ink supply: A hand-held ink stamper has a base, an actuator slidably disposed on the base, and a die mount movably mounted within the base. The die mount is connected to the actuator and movable to at least a printing position upon movement of the actuator. A die is mounted on the...

20060144268 - Waste liquid regenerator of printing machine and method for regenerating waste liquid: In a vessel (2) to which waste liquid (11) which contains ink pigment, water and cleaning liquid used in a printer is supplied, a metal electrode plate (30a, 30b) which allows the waste liquid (11) to flow therethrough is disposed to partition the inside of the vessel (2) into a...

20060144271 - Coating formulation for printing plate precursor, printing plate precursor, printing press, fabrication process of printing plate, and regeneration process of printing plate: Disclosed are a printing plate precursor, a fabrication process of the printing plate precursor, a fabrication process of a printing plate, a regeneration process of the printing plate, a printing press, and a coating formulation for the printing plate precursor. According to the present invention, a printing plate can be...

20060144270 - Photothermally sensitive compositions and system for ctp imaging processes: Plates coated with compositions photothermally sensitive to multiple portions of the electromagnetic spectrum and useful for the preparation of lithographic printing plates, color proofing films and the like by computer to plate imaging processes comprising a solvent, cross-linkable polymers and monomers, and energy absorbing dye/laser dye/initiator/sensitizers, where the energy absorbing...

20060144269 - Polymer for heat-sensitive lithographic printing plate precursor: A polymer for a heat-sensitive lithographic printing plate precursor is disclosed wherein the polymer comprises a phenolic monomeric unit wherein the H atom of the hydroxy group of the phenyl group of the phenolic monomeric unit is replaced by a group comprising a N-imide group and wherein the substitution of...

20060144272 - Process for producing water-development printing plate for relief printing: A process for producing a water-developable printing plate for use in relief printing, comprising subjecting a solid plate made of a photosensitive resin composition including at least (a) a hydrophilic resin, (b) a hydrophobic resin, (c) a photopolymerizable unsaturated compound and (d) a photopolymerization initiator to at least an exposure...

20060144273 - Printer with stacker: Disclosed are a printer and a stacker and methods. The printer prints selectively on one or both sides of a printable web and sheets or labels are cut from the web and stacked in the stacker. The printer has an unwind mechanism that accepts and holds web rolls of different...

20060144274 - Imprint lithography: An imprinting method is disclosed, in which an embodiment involves subjecting an imprintable medium on a substrate to conditions such that the medium is at a first temperature so that it is in a flowable state, the imprintable medium comprising an imprint material selected from a group consisting of: a...

20060144275 - Imprint lithography: A method for manufacturing a working template for use in imprint lithography is disclosed, which in an embodiment, involves contacting a first target region of an imprintable medium on a working template substrate with a master template to form a first imprint in the medium, the imprint defining a part...

20060144276 - Electronic devices and processes for forming the same: An electronic device includes an array. In one embodiment, a process for forming an electronic device includes the array, which includes electronic components, can include printing one or more layers as a series of segments onto a workpiece. In one embodiment, a process includes printing a layer onto the workpiece...

20060144277 - Processes for printing layers for electronic devices and printing apparatuses for performing the processes: An electronic device includes a printed layer. In one embodiment, a process for forming the electronic device includes placing a workpiece over a chuck within a printing apparatus. A temperature difference is established between the workpiece and a liquid composition. The process further includes continuously printing the liquid composition over...