Printing inventions 02/07

20070039490 - Machine for printing on hollow bodies: A machine for printing on hollow bodies such as sleeves, collapsible tubes, cans or the like, comprises receiving spindles having a horizontal axis of rotation on which receiving spindles are arranged which precede along a spindle track curve during stepped rotational movement of the spindle plate. Along this spindle track... Agent: Browdy And Neimark, P.l.l.c. 624 Ninth Street, Nw

20070039491 - Moistening device for a roll or a cylinder of an offset press: A moistening device for a roll or a cylinder of an offset press is disclosed. The moistening device includes a chamber-type doctor which is attached for moistening to the roll or to the cylinder. At least one actuator is arranged on the chamber-type doctor, with which actuator the pressing force... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070039492 - Method and apparatus for operating a printing-press system: A method and apparatus for operating a printing-press system is disclosed, in which at least one paper web is guided, printed and folded by functional units of the printing press on at least one web path for a printing process. The functional units having at least one paper-inserting mechanism, at... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070039493 - Print unit having cylinders forming a counterweight and corresponding press: The invention provides a unit for printing a web of paper including a frame and at least a first and a second printing group, each printing group including a blanket cylinder and a plate cylinder, the printing unit also including a throw off mechanism for supporting and moving the cylinders,... Agent: Davidson, Davidson & Kappel, LLC

20070039494 - Printing unit having a blanket cylinder which can be moved between a throw-on position and a throw-off position and corresponding printing press: A printing unit is provided including a frame and at least a first printing group having a first plate cylinder and a first blanket cylinder which is intended to co-operate with a pressing cylinder. The printing group further includes a mechanism by means of which the first blanket cylinder can... Agent: Davidson, Davidson & Kappel, LLC

20070039495 - Feeding device, recording system, and feeding method: A feeding device that feeds a rolled paper to a printing apparatus is provided with a feeding mechanism, a tension measuring mechanism, and an outlet side guide roller. The feeding mechanism feeds a predetermined amount of the rolled paper in a forward direction so that slack is provided downstream of... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070039496 - Cylinder of an inking or dampening system: A cylinder, which is part of an inking system or of a dampening system, has a rotary individual drive which is embodied as a drive motor. A changeable drive is also provided. The rotary drive is driven by the drive motors by a bevel or angular gear.... Agent: Douglas R. Hanscom Jones Tullar Cooper

20070039497 - Printer: Various embodiments of a printer including an actuation member are disclosed.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070039498 - Stamp mount assembly and related components: New and useful improvements in a stamping assembly, and to components of such an assembly, are provided. Those improvements enable a single stamp mount to be conveniently coupled with or detached from a stamp structure, so that different stamp structures can be conveniently used with a single stamp mount. A... Agent: Lawrence R. Oremland, P.C.

20070039499 - Process for treating photothermographic dry imaging material: Disclosed is an image forming process having the steps of exposing by an exposure device a photothermographic dry imaging material with a support having thereon an image forming layer containing photosensitive silver halide, a reducing agent for silver ions, a binder and a light-insensitive organic silver salt, and developing the... Agent: Lucas & Mercanti, LLP

20070039500 - Manufacturing method of lithographic printing plate and manufacturing apparatus of lithographic printing plate: A manufacturing method of a lithographic printing plate, which comprises: imagewise exposing a lithographic printing plate precursor comprising a support and an image-recording layer; and removing a non-image area of the image-recording layer in a development processing tank that has a reservoir of a first aqueous solution having pH of... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20070039501 - Plate making apparatus: A plate making apparatus makes a printing plate for lithographic printing. The apparatus includes a first inkjet head which ejects selectively a plate surface-protecting solution in response to a first ejection signal onto a printing base plate on which an image has been recorded. The plate making apparatus further includes... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070039502 - Imaged printing member, method and system for manufacturing it: According to embodiments of the present invention, a method for manufacturing an imaged printing member is provided. The method may include imaging a selected image onto a transfer media which is coated with a surface forming coating by applying an image carry material onto the transfer media. Then, applying a... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek, LLP Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20070039503 - Method to facilitate provision of an energizable design image: An energizable design image portion of a provided design pattern (101) is printed (103) on a provided substrate (101) using a functional ink comprised of at least one energy emissive material. A passive design image portion of that design pattern is then also printed (104) on that substrate using at... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070039504 - Method for operating a printer which requests print density approval: A method for operating a printer for printing a print job requiring at least one color ink. At least one printer operating parameter is chosen which may include a remaining ink volume of the at least one color ink. A first print density for one color ink is obtained for... Agent: Lexmark International, Inc. Intellectual Property Law Department

20070034099 - Seals for an image forming apparatus: The present invention relates to seals which may be used in an image forming apparatus. The seals may prevent the leakage of image forming materials, e.g. as between a blade and an image forming apparatus housing.... Agent: Lexmark International, Inc. Intellectual Property Law Department

20070034100 - Seals for an image forming apparatus: The present invention relates to seals which may be used in an image forming apparatus. The seals may prevent the leakage of image forming materials, e.g. as between a blade and an image forming apparatus housing.... Agent: Lexmark International, Inc. Intellectual Property Law Department

20070034101 - Method for making compensations for register deviations: The invention relates to a method of compensating for register deviations, caused by rotational vibrations, in a sheet-fed rotary printing press with a driving gear train, connecting a sheet-feeding apparatus and printing units and/or coating units, and a main drive motor, acting on the driving gear train, to which a... Agent: Goodwin Procter L.l.p

20070034102 - Liquid application device and ink jet recording apparatus: The present invention provides a liquid application device and an ink jet recording apparatus each capable of reducing deterioration in application quality due to an increase in the number of times of use of a roller, thereby improving durability. The present invention includes an application roller which applies liquid to... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070034103 - Verification of prescription information with double side extended tab label and method of forming same: A method of forming an extended tab label is disclosed. The method includes the steps of providing a paper supply to a printer, the paper supply having an adhesive covering at least a portion thereof. Inputting patient-specific information through a computer to the printer. Printing the patient-specific information on the... Agent: Robert M. Schwartz, P.A.

20070034104 - Printing method and apparatus: A printing method and apparatus is disclosed wherein the printhead has a linear array of nozzles oriented in an axis, and drops of a liquid are printed at a particular location from first and second nozzles of the printhead at a first location. In an embodiment, the nozzles are arranged... Agent: Fleshner & Kim, LLP

20070022883 - Silkscreen printer machine and apparatus: at least one printing station (54) secured to the structure (48) and including at least one screen support (68) presenting a reception area adapted to receive a screen texture (70) having a pattern for printing placed thereon. The screen support (68) is carried by at least three support elements (78)... Agent: Young & Thompson

20070022884 - Printing unit used in the tobacco-processing industry: A printing unit of the tobacco-processing industry with a nozzle body for applying ink onto a transfer cylinder that is in operative contact with a transfer roller. The printing unit is further developed in that the transfer cylinder has an at least partially profiled cylinder surface. Furthermore, a machine used... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070022885 - Method and apparatus for preventing plate cylinder contamination during a plating process: In a preferred embodiment of the present invention, a printing press comprises a printing plate cylinder, a blanket cylinder and a support arrangement for mounting the printing plate cylinder in an opposed, movable relation to the blanket cylinder. A biasing arrangement is arranged and configured to bias the printing plate... Agent: Davidson, Davidson & Kappel, LLC

20070022886 - Printing units comprising bearing rings in a rotary press: A printing group of a rotary printing press includes a counter-pressure cylinder that forms a printing location in a printing contact position in cooperation with a second cylinder. The second cylinder has a compressible surface. The two cylinders each are provided with bearer rings. A radius of the counter-pressure cylinder... Agent: Douglas R Hanscom Jones Tullar & Cooper

20070022887 - Manufacturing apparatus and method of manufacturing a display panel: An apparatus for manufacturing a display panel includes a printing plate having a plurality of recesses formed on its surface and a hole formed at at least one end thereof, a transfer roller for receiving ink injected in the recesses, a supporting plate for supporting a substrate thereon, wherein the... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20070022888 - Ink supply amount adjustment method and apparatus for printing press: In an ink supply amount adjustment method, a density value of a printed paper sheet is measured. The ink fountain key opening ratio is corrected on the basis of a difference between the measured density value of the printed paper sheet and a preset reference density value. The ink feed... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070022889 - Image transfer mechanism: A mechanism for transferring an image from a first surface to printing media comprising: an impression member having an impression surface; printing media grippers associated with said impression surface adapted for holding an edge of the printing media on the impression member during said transfer and then controllably releasing the... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070022890 - Method of changing the mounting condition of a printing master on a printing master cylinder: A method according to the invention of changing the mounting condition, in particular of mounting or dismounting of a printing master on a printing master cylinder having a first receiving element for the leading edge and a second receiving element for the trailing edge of the printing master includes rotating... Agent: Davidson, Davidson & Kappel, LLC

20070022891 - Latch: In embodiments herein a latch apparatus comprises a striker plate and a latch. The latch comprises a pin that is positioned to contact the inclined surface of the striker plate as the latch moves over the striker plate. The latch also comprises a roller that is positioned to roll over... Agent: Frederick W. Gibb, Iii Gibb Intellectual Property Law Firm, LLC

20070022892 - Print job manifest: A method for providing a print job manifest includes querying a press database containing data corresponding to print jobs recorded on a web. A print job manifest is generated according to the press database. The print job manifest is recorded on the web so that at least a portion of... Agent: Hewlett-packard Company Intellectual Property Administration

20070022893 - Method for carrying out a production change on a printing press with automated change of a printing plate: An automated method is provided for carrying out a production change, which is specific to the printing plate, on a printing press. After a first print job is printed on a printing press, the printing of the first print job is stopped automatically after a predefined print run level has... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20070022894 - Printing press abnormal state display method and apparatus: In a printing press abnormal state display method, the current states of a plurality of elements of a printing press are detected. The detected current state of each element is compared with a normal state predetermined for the element. It is determined on the basis of the comparison result whether... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070022895 - Substrate support plate transfer apparatus for fabricating organic light emitting display: A substrate support plate transfer apparatus for fabricating an organic light emitting display is disclosed. In one embodiment, the apparatus includes a quartz plate transferred into a bonding processing chamber for an organic light emitting device, a protection frame on which the quartz plate is placed in order to transfer... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP