Printing inventions 09/06

20060207446 - Printing apparatus for making colored contact lenses: P

20060207447 - Device for fixing a fastening ring to a support member and support including it: The fixing device includes a base including elements for pivotal mounting of the ring; a foot carried by the base, including a first pair of lugs extending from the base, a crossmember disposed between the lugs, and a second pair of lugs connected to the base; and a rod adapted...

20060207448 - Method for printing white on dark textiles using screen-printers and inkjet printers: A method for printing light colors on dark substrates such as black textiles is disclosed. The method includes screen printing a pre-treatment onto a textile, inkjet printing an underbase on the textile, inkjet printing an image over the underbase, and counting and displaying the number of printings of the underbase...

20060207449 - Method of creating design on wearing apparel: A method of creating a design on a piece of clothing comprising creating negative space as a design, by protecting a specific area of the piece of clothing, while distressing the entire rest of the garment. The resulting look is a worn vintage garment with a monochromatic design in the...

20060207450 - Drive device and method for controlling a unit of a printing press: A drive device of a printing press comprises a virtual guide axle (a, b) for specifying a set angular position of a drive (08) of at least one unit (01, 02, 03, 04, 06, 07) driven by its own drive motor (M). At least one circuit (15, 20) is connected...

20060207451 - Mobile navigator having locked braces: By using hooks and slots, the present invention strengthens the robustness of a support used in a navigator for a mobile and the support is assembled with ease. Moreover, problems on assembling the support are solved by the guidance of the hooks....

20060207452 - Devices for controlling at least one register in a printing machine: At least one register and an ink density are controlled in a printing machine having at least one printing unit which includes a forme cylinder, a transfer cylinder, and a counter-pressure cylinder. An image sensor records an image from a print substrate, which is imprinted with ink, inside the printing...

20060207453 - Apparatus and method for a rubber sleeve for a printing press: A rubber sleeve for a printing press, having an at least two-layer structure, is disclosed. The rubber sleeve has an inner layer formed as a carrier layer and an outer layer formed as a functional layer and used for the printing process, the carrier layer and the functional layer being...

20060207454 - Printing plate material, printing plate manufacturing method, and printing method: A printing plate material having an aluminum support on which an image forming layer is provided, wherein a wireless IC tag is provided on a part of the printing plate material....

20060207455 - Apparatus and method of fabricating blanket for printing roll: An apparatus and method for fabricating a blanket for a printing roll for is provided. The apparatus includes a container to receive and drop printing roll blanket material for patterning an LCD substrates, a preheating part below the container to preheat dropped printing roll blanket material and a curing part...

20060207457 - Method for controlling quality in a gravure-printed layer of an electroactive device: Disclosed are methods for controlling quality in forward gravure printed electroactive layers for electroactive devices. The corresponding electroactive layers made by said methods and electroactive devices comprising said layers are also embodiments of the invention....

20060207458 - Processless lithographic printing plates: A method of lithographic printing includes the steps of (i) providing a heat-sensitive lithographic printing plate precursor including, on a support having a hydrophilic surface or which is provided with a hydrophilic layer, a coating having a polymer modified with at least two groups which can form four hydrogen bonds,...

20060207456 - Water-based laser hologram paper and methods for manufacturing the laser hologram paper: A method for manufacturing water-based laser hologram papers has acts of entirely or partially coating water-based varnish on a printed paper substrate, subjecting the paper substrate to a mirror treatment, and entirely or partially molding the paper substrate with laser compressing operations. By substituting PVC or PET plastic membranes with...

20060201348 - Dynamically changing label size during mail processing: The present subject matter relates to a method and system for labeling a mail piece, and more specifically, to the application of variable sized labels to mail pieces based on the contents of the label and real-time mail processing information. More particularly, the present approach involves calculating expected label preparation...

20060201349 - Method and system for printing onto a deformable cast polymer article: A printing system configured to print an image onto a deformable cast polymer article comprising: (a) means for supporting a deformable cast polymer article in preparation for printing thereon, the means for supporting comprising a pressure platen, the deformable cast polymer comprising a finished surface to be printed on and...

20060201350 - Frame assembly: A frame assembly is made up of a number of strips and a frame member, which has a channel defined by side walls and a bottom wall. A first strip located in the channel has a terminal end section defined by a return flange so that the terminal end section...

20060201352 - Roller rotary drive transmitting apparatus: A roller rotary drive transmitting apparatus includes an internal gear, sun gear, at least one planet gear, carrier, anilox roller, and controller. The internal gear is rotatably driven by a printing press motor. The sun gear is rotatably driven by an anilox roller motor. The planet gear meshes with the...

20060201351 - Self-propelled imaging system: Printing cylinder supporting unit for a printing machine, with a supporting frame (27) and 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...

20060201353 - Device for transporting sheets in straight printing or perfecting operation by way of tongs grippers: A device for transporting sheets in recto or verso printing operation has tongs grippers each with upper and lower grippers. The upper gripper, or rigid gripper, that forms the gripper pad can be locked directly or indirectly in recto printing operation....

20060201355 - Printing head for nano patterning: The present invention provides a printing head for nano patterning including a manifold for accommodating a liquid printing material, a cartridge with an injection chamber communicating with the manifold, and a sample holder for patterning installed outside the injection chamber of the cartridge. The printing head comprises a shadow mask...

20060201354 - Stamp: This invention provides a stamp capable of matching a selectable print face and a fixed print face on a same plane easily. A damper member 300 is provided between a rear end 124 of a base portion 120 of a fixed print portion 100 and a collar 203 of a...

20060201356 - Ink form roller drive for improving printing quality: An apparatus and method for improving print quality in a rotary offset press includes a variable speed servo motor for selectively applying a driving or braking action to a form roller in contact with a plate cylinder. The servo motor may be directly coupled to the form roller by a...

20060201357 - Printing method, mechanical sheet material and mounting method of printing plate material: A printing method in which printing is performed by including a mechanical sheet material between a printing plate material, which is provided with a hydrophilic layer and an image forming functional layer on the one surface of a plastic support and a back-coat layer on the other surface, and a...

20060201358 - Method and apparatus for treating a reimagable printing plate: A reusable printing form is treated after printing. The printing form has a substrate provided with amphiphilic molecules and it is cleaned to remove printing ink and provided with amphiphilic molecules, for fresh printing in the course of a reimaging process. Here, the printing form is provided with amphiphilic molecules...

20060201359 - Anodization process of long-length aluminum plate, anodization apparatus and aluminum support for planographic printing plate material: r

20060201360 - Method for making a processless lithographic printing plate: A method for making a negative-working, heat-sensitive printing plate precursor capable of switching from a hydrophilic state into a hydrophobic state upon exposure to heat and/or infrared light, including the steps of (i) providing a support having a surface comprising titanium, (ii) modifying the surface by producing an oxide of...

20060201361 - Printing method and device, using controlled radiation outlets for creating a structure: In a method and device to generate a print image on a carrier material, a surface of a print carrier is covered with a layer of a fountain solution which is one of ink-repelling and ink-attracting. Ink-attracting and ink-repelling regions are generated via structuring. Ink is applied that adheres to...

20060201362 - Method for producing a luminescent pattern from non-overlapping dots, and corresponding luminescent pattern: printing the dots (4) as determined in this way in the corresponding cells of the array. The invention also relates to a luminescent pattern comprising a series of non-overlapping luminescent dots of at least two luminescent materials that emit different colors when they are excited, at least some of the...

20060201365 - Method for the open-loop or closed-loop control of a process for the production of printed copies: A method for the open-loop or closed-loop control of a process for the production of printed copies, is disclosed. A printing material being printed and subsequently further processed in order to produce printed copies, the printing material being moved through at least one printing unit of a press in order...

20060201363 - Method of processing substrate and substrate processing apparatus: A substrate processing apparatus 10 including a vapor generating unit 371 which generates a mixed gas consisting of an organic solvent vapor and an inert gas by bubbling the inert gas in the organic solvent; support means for supporting a plurality of substrates to be vertically arranged in parallel at...

20060201364 - Secure printing method to thwart counterfeiting: A method for implementing a secure printing campaign to thwart counterfeiting is provided. The method includes the steps of selecting a first secure print technology and a second secure print technology that is distinct from the first secure print technology, selecting a first secure print variable for the first secure...

20060201366 - Utilization of a printing ink in a printing group and printing group of a rotary printing press: The tack of an ink that is used in a printing group of a rotating printing press, or the temperature of a rotating component in the printing group is selected or controlled. This selection or control is accomplished in a manner so that optimal printing is achieved....

20060201367 - Utilization of a printing ink in a printing group and printing group of a rotary printing press: The tack of an ink that is used in a printing group of a rotating printing press, or the temperature of a rotating component in the printing group is selected or controlled. This selection or control is accomplished in a manner so that optimal printing is achieved....

20060201368 - Method of controlling register when overprinting a plurality of separated colors: A method of controlling register when overprinting a plurality of separated colors, includes adjusting with register adjusting devices the position of image fields produced with the separated colors on a print carrier, so that the image fields are in register with one another. The position of all of the image...

20060196371 - Portable credit card imprinter: The invention consists of a one-piece small base plate (1), made of an extruded piece of aluminum, having along the length of its sidewalls two formed grooves—edges (3, 4). Within the base's edges, an imprinting head (2), consisting of two independently adjusted rolling platens (21, 22) that change position alternatively...

20060196372 - Golf ball: A golf ball having an indicia produced by ink jet printing is disclosed. An ink composition containing a coloring agent and a resin is dispensed on a transfer medium, using an ink jet printer, to form an indicia. The indicia is transferred from the transfer medium to the dimpled surface...

20060196373 - Variable cut-off offset press system and method of operation: A variable cut-off offset press system and method of operation which utilizes a continuous image transfer belt is provided. The offset printing system comprises at least two plate cylinders adapted to have thereon respective printing sleeves. Each of the printing sleeves is adapted to receive colored ink from a respective...

20060196374 - Method for creating a single continuous web from which to fabricate mailpieces: A method for producing a continuous web of printed material for use in creating mailpieces. The continuous web has a width and a length, the length comprised of a series of attached sheets. The series of attached sheets are comprising envelope sheets and rectangular content pages. The content pages are...

20060196375 - Method and system for transferring a patterned material: A method of transferring a material to a substrate includes selectively depositing the material on a surface of an applicator and contacting the surface of the applicator to the substrate. The material can form a pattern on the surface of the applicator. The pattern can be preserved when the material...

20060196376 - Apparatus for picking up and conveying sheet-like products accommodated in a storage unit: An apparatus for picking up and conveying sheet-like products, for storage units which perform a perpendicular translational motion, constituted by a wheeled and motorized structure that can slide on rails, to which a supporting and movement arm for a grip assembly for a sheet-like product is hinged by way of...

20060196377 - Imprint lithography: An imprinting method is disclosed that involves, in an embodiment, redistributing a volume of imprintable medium in a flowable state over a target portion of a surface of a substrate into regions of differing volume corresponding to regions of differing pattern density of an imprint pattern of a template, contacting...

20060196379 - Method and device for regulating the concentration of components of additives in a printing process liquid: The invention concerns a method for regulating the concentrations of components of additives in a printing process liquid for maintaining predetermined desired concentrations of components of additives in a printing process liquid, wherein the actual concentrations of components are determined followed by redosing of measured components to a predetermined desired...

20060196378 - Printing device and method for operating a printing device: The invention relates to a printing device and a method of operating the printing device, it being possible for the following steps to be carried out: printing a calibration print by means of the printing device, the calibration print having a plurality of measuring areas with different colour mixture relationships,...

20060196381 - Method for preparing graphics on sheets: A method for preparing a graphic on a sheet (40) of material which also includes at least one registration mark (44) at and about the graphic in predetermined positions. The method involves the steps of applying the graphic (42a, 42b) and at least one registration mark on a sheet of...

20060196380 - Method for the production of a printed product, processing device, and system for the production of printed products: A printing system is used for printing newspapers or for job printing and includes a web-fed press, including an unreeling stand, and one or more printing units for printing a web that is unrolled from a roll at the unreeling stand. A re-rolling stand may be used to wind up...

20060196371 - Portable credit card imprinter: The invention consists of a one-piece small base plate (1), made of an extruded piece of aluminum, having along the length of its sidewalls two formed grooves—edges (3, 4). Within the base's edges, an imprinting head (2), consisting of two independently adjusted rolling platens (21, 22) that change position alternatively...

20060196372 - Golf ball: A golf ball having an indicia produced by ink jet printing is disclosed. An ink composition containing a coloring agent and a resin is dispensed on a transfer medium, using an ink jet printer, to form an indicia. The indicia is transferred from the transfer medium to the dimpled surface...

20060196373 - Variable cut-off offset press system and method of operation: A variable cut-off offset press system and method of operation which utilizes a continuous image transfer belt is provided. The offset printing system comprises at least two plate cylinders adapted to have thereon respective printing sleeves. Each of the printing sleeves is adapted to receive colored ink from a respective...

20060196374 - Method for creating a single continuous web from which to fabricate mailpieces: A method for producing a continuous web of printed material for use in creating mailpieces. The continuous web has a width and a length, the length comprised of a series of attached sheets. The series of attached sheets are comprising envelope sheets and rectangular content pages. The content pages are...

20060196375 - Method and system for transferring a patterned material: A method of transferring a material to a substrate includes selectively depositing the material on a surface of an applicator and contacting the surface of the applicator to the substrate. The material can form a pattern on the surface of the applicator. The pattern can be preserved when the material...

20060196376 - Apparatus for picking up and conveying sheet-like products accommodated in a storage unit: An apparatus for picking up and conveying sheet-like products, for storage units which perform a perpendicular translational motion, constituted by a wheeled and motorized structure that can slide on rails, to which a supporting and movement arm for a grip assembly for a sheet-like product is hinged by way of...

20060196377 - Imprint lithography: An imprinting method is disclosed that involves, in an embodiment, redistributing a volume of imprintable medium in a flowable state over a target portion of a surface of a substrate into regions of differing volume corresponding to regions of differing pattern density of an imprint pattern of a template, contacting...

20060196379 - Method and device for regulating the concentration of components of additives in a printing process liquid: The invention concerns a method for regulating the concentrations of components of additives in a printing process liquid for maintaining predetermined desired concentrations of components of additives in a printing process liquid, wherein the actual concentrations of components are determined followed by redosing of measured components to a predetermined desired...

20060196378 - Printing device and method for operating a printing device: The invention relates to a printing device and a method of operating the printing device, it being possible for the following steps to be carried out: printing a calibration print by means of the printing device, the calibration print having a plurality of measuring areas with different colour mixture relationships,...

20060196381 - Method for preparing graphics on sheets: A method for preparing a graphic on a sheet (40) of material which also includes at least one registration mark (44) at and about the graphic in predetermined positions. The method involves the steps of applying the graphic (42a, 42b) and at least one registration mark on a sheet of...

20060196380 - Method for the production of a printed product, processing device, and system for the production of printed products: A printing system is used for printing newspapers or for job printing and includes a web-fed press, including an unreeling stand, and one or more printing units for printing a web that is unrolled from a roll at the unreeling stand. A re-rolling stand may be used to wind up...