Printing inventions 03/07

20070068401 - Postage meter with improved printing slot: A postage meter includes a slot to receive insertion of an envelope. A registration plate defines a top side of the slot. The registration plate has a window formed therein. The registration plate is for defining a printing location for a top surface of the envelope. A print head is... Agent: Pitney Bowes Inc. 35 Waterview Drive

20070068402 - Method and apparatus for printing images having fraud detection features: A method for incorporating fraud detection features in a printed image. The method includes the steps of providing an impact printer having a plurality of impact pins for producing pixels on a substrate, developing an encoding scheme within the printed image, and controlling the impact printer to produce the pixels... Agent: Pitney Bowes Inc. 35 Waterview Drive

20070068403 - High volume inkjet garment printer with heat presses: A method and apparatus for printing images on a high volume of printable substrates such as garments is disclosed. The apparatus comprises an inkjet printer, a conveyor system, heat presses and beds. The beds are trays with garment attachments such as platens for holding multiple garments in place during printing.... Agent: Etherton Law Group, LLC

20070068404 - Systems and methods for additive deposition of materials onto a substrate: A two stage printing process that includes a digital first stage in the form of a non-contact material metering device, such as one or more digital inkjet heads, for selectively discharging a metered quantity of material, and an analog second stage, such as flexographic print and impression cylinders, for transferring... Agent: Weyerhaeuser Company Intellectual Property Dept., Ch 1j27

20070068405 - Printing unit and a rotary roller printing press: A printing unit is comprised of at least two pairs of two cylinders each. The two cylinders in each pair are a transfer cylinder and a forme cylinder. The transfer cylinder and the forme cylinder are each embodied with a width sufficient for printing six newspaper pages arranged axially next... Agent: Jones, Tullar & Cooper, P.C.

20070068406 - Printing unit for a press: A printing unit for a web-fed rotary press includes a forme cylinder which receives at least one printing forme, an inking unit applying printing ink to the at least one printing forme on the forme cylinder, and a damping unit, if required, applying a damping solution to the at least... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane

20070068407 - Sheet guiding device for sheet feeders: A sheet-guiding device in a feed region of a sheet-processing machine includes a suction head settable to a format length of a sheet and flexible sheet-guiding elements disposed above a sheet conveying plane. The sheet-guiding elements have a constant length, are disposed so as to be stationary and are deflectable... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20070068408 - Rotary roller printing press: A rotary offset printing press has at least one printing unit which is used to print a web with six printed pages arranged in an axial direction next to each other. The printing press also includes a folding apparatus. A transport cylinder of the folding apparatus is arranged with a... Agent: Douglas R Hanscom Jones Tullar & Cooper

20070068409 - Method for controlling a temperature of a press and press having a temperature control device: In a method for controlling the temperature of a press which has an applicator roller and a screen roller, the screen roller has its temperature controlled at different temperatures and the applicator roller has its temperature controlled at a constant temperature. In this manner, the choice of the screen roller... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20070068410 - Inking roller for an inking unit of an offset printing press: The invention provides an inking roller for an inking unit of an offset printing press. The inking roller has a number of zones arranged in the direction of the axis of rotation and at least one ink reservoir in the interior of the inking roller. The at least one ink... Agent: Davidson, Davidson & Kappel, LLC

20070068411 - Method for imaging printing forms: A method for imaging a printing form, in particular within a press, is disclosed. A printing form having a rewritable surface being provided, and an imaging material being applied to the surface of the printing form in order to provide a permanent and erasable image. During imaging, in a first... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070068412 - Method for handling printing plates: A method for handling printing plates includes moving the printing plates from a first process station to a second station by a printing plate holder. The process stations are all arranged on a cylinder circumferential surface around a mid-axis, and it is possible for all to be opened out by... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20070062382 - Method and apparatus for tool bit marking: A method and apparatus for imprinting text on items such as tools. The imprinting process involving employing a roll forging assembly including a large-sized roller plate and a multi-angle vise.... Agent: Fulwider Patton LLP

20070062384 - Golf bag having image thereon, systems and methods of forming same, and methods of using golf bag: A golf bag system, a golf bag having an image positioned thereon, and methods of forming and using the golf bag are provided. The system preferably includes a golf bag having a main bag body including an open end, a closed end, a club chamber positioned between the open and... Agent: Bracewell & Giuliani LLP

20070062383 - Robot for large-format, three dimensional digital printing on a fixed surface and printing method involving at least one such robot: g

20070062385 - Method for printing on tablets and etched printing plate used therein: Method for printing on a pharmaceutical tablet by etching a printing plate to form a pattern of etchings therein within an area corresponding to an outline of the tablet, varying the ink-retaining volumes of the etchings in a pre-determined manner and in a direction across the etching pattern from one... Agent: Lucas & Mercanti, LLP

20070062386 - Squeegee blade holders with integral cleaning apparatus: A printing system including a squeegee and a blade assembly. The system further includes moving paste retainers and at least one cross elements. The cross elements include one or more cross wires to affect a wiping action of the blade during a printing cycle of the squeegee. The motion of... Agent: Thomas P O'connell

20070062387 - Inking and doctor unit for a rotogravure print and spread assembly: An inking and doctor unit for a rotogravure print and spread cylinder includes a casing; a doctor assembly; and an inking chamber bounded by a concave inner surface of the casing and at least partly by the doctor assembly. The casing and the doctor assembly form a box body closed... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070062389 - Method and device for printing wherein a hydrophilic layer is produced and structured: In a method and device to generate a print image on a carrier material, a separate hydrophilic layer is applied onto a surface of a print carrier. By a structuring of the hydrophilic layer, hydrophilic regions and hydrophobic regions are created corresponding to a structure of a print image to... Agent: Schiff Hardin, LLP Patent Department

20070062388 - Method for producing disc overlay proofs: A method for electronically layering product label designs onto an electronic representation of a digital media storage disc to enable accurate representation of opaque, Pantone, white, and transparent inks on the digital media storage disc background to produce a soft disc print proof.... Agent: Polster, Lieder, Woodruff & Lucchesi

20070062390 - Assembly for rotary press: An assembly for a rotary press is provided including a hub which is suitable for being rotatably mounted about a center axis in a rotary press, a format adaptation sleeve and means for fixing the adaptation sleeve to the hub. The hub and the adaptation sleeve each include a stop... Agent: Davidson, Davidson & Kappel, LLC

20070062391 - Press unit of a web-fed press: A press unit of a web-fed press is disclosed. The press unit has at least one pair of cylinders including a form cylinder and a transfer cylinder and also an impression cylinder, it being possible for a printing material web to be led through between the transfer cylinder and the... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070062392 - Device for distributing flat articles using a transport system: Flat objects are distributed by a device which includes a transport section that is used to transport a stream of flat objects to be distributed, and a plurality of sequentially arranged paddle wheels or delivery fans, each of which has at least one component that is configured to receive an... Agent: Douglas R. Hanscom Jones, Tullar & Cooper

20070062393 - Label application device: A label application device, which holds a label strip stationary under a rest condition, and prints, advances and separating labels from a backing ship at successive label positions. It holds stationary a backing strip of the label strip and an advancing wheel for the backing trip so that they are... Agent: Ostrolenk Faber Gerb & Soffen

20070062394 - Thermoset printing blanket: A printing blanket carcass, comprising a fabric stack substrate comprising at least one fabric ply. Each ply has a plurality of warp and fill fibers or yarns. A compressible layer comprising a moisture cured thermoset polymer matrix is deposed on top of the substrate. The compressible layer contains a plurality... Agent: Clements Walker

20070062395 - Printing plate and method of fabricating liquid crystal display device using the same: A printing plate and a method of fabricating an LCD device are disclosed. The printing plate includes convex and concave portions, and a blanket support formed in the concave portion to prevent the bottom of the concave portion from being directly in contact with a pattern material coated on a... Agent: Song K. Jung Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20070062396 - Imprinting apparatus and imprinting method: An imprinting apparatus according to the present invention is configured to be capable of removing a stamper having one surface thereof formed with a concave/convex portion and having flexibility, from a resist layer to which shapes of the concave/convex portion of the stamper have been transferred by pressing the concave/convex... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070062397 - Sheet offset machine, drier and method for drying in sheet offset machine: The invention describes a sheet offset machine in which may be applied an air-drying ink/varnish. The invention furthermore concerns a drying unit that may be used for drying air-drying ink/varnish. The drying unit is disposed in connection with a cylinder surface and includes an integrated ventilator with suction and exhaust... Agent: James C Wray

20070062398 - Lithographic apparatus, and mechanism: A lithographic apparatus has a mechanism with a movable element, at least partially made from a magnetizable material. The movable element is movable between a first position and a second position. A pretensioner exerts a pretension force on the movable element urging it to the first position. A permanent magnet... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20070062399 - Printing group including cylinders supported for movement: A printing group of a printing machine is comprised of a pair of cylinders each having a circumference that corresponds essentially to a length of a section of a side to be printed. The effective generated surface of at least one of the cylinders cormprises, at the most, one break... Agent: Jones, Tullar & Cooper, P.C.

20070062401 - Customized carbon paper and method for making the same: A media sheet having a customized carbon paper portion thereon and a method for making the same are disclosed. The media sheet having a first and second side, the first side of the media sheet comprising a carbon paper portion, the carbon paper portion being capable of transferring a marking... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070062400 - Methods and systems for providing directory printing: Systems and methods are disclosed for providing directory printing. The disclosed systems may include a roll having a first axis. In addition, the systems disclosed may comprise a first print cylinder configured to receive web from the roll. The first print cylinder has a second axis parallel to the first... Agent: Merchant & Gould Bellsouth Corporation

20070062403 - Method and system for measuring thickness of an item based on imaging: A system and method for determining the thickness of a mail piece is provided. A first image of at least a portion of a surface of a mail piece is captured using a first optical axis for a feature on the surface of the mail piece. A second image of... Agent: Pitney Bowes Inc. 35 Waterview Drive

20070062402 - Method and system for printing secure value documents and non-secure documents utilizing the same printing device: A printing system for printing both secure value documents and non-secure documents while ensuring that fraudulent copies of secure value documents printed by the printing system can be detected is provided. The printing system determines if the source is a secure or non-secure source. If the source of the image... Agent: Pitney Bowes Inc. 35 Waterview Drive

20070062404 - Method for printing multicolor images on edible pieces: Multicolor image, formed from at least two component images, are printed on non-planar surfaces of edible pieces by maintaining registration of the pieces from one printing station to another. The registration is maintained by firmly securing the pieces to the transporting surface by applying a pressure differential, by a combination... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070062405 - Press cylinder and method for compensating thermally induced deformation of a press cylinder: A method for compensating for a thermally induced deformation of press cylinders which occurs during a printing operation in a well-defined circumferential area of the radially outer surface of the cylinder includes controlling the temperature of a well-defined circumferential area of the press cylinder to compensate for the deformation.... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane

20070056451 - Composite printing die: A composite printing die having a body and a texture selectively defined thereon to form a printing surface, the body including a polymeric matrix and a filler dispersed in the polymeric matrix, wherein the filler includes particles made of an elemental metal, any alloys thereof, and any combinations thereof.... Agent: Patterson, Thuente, Skaar & Christensen, P.A.

20070056452 - Material transfer vacuum device: A feeder head assembly is provided for transporting a material in a printing apparatus. The feeder head assembly includes a housing and a cap. The housing is at least partially rotatable about a longitudinal axis. Also, the housing includes an inner hollow chamber and an opening into the chamber. The... Agent: Hoffmann & Baron, LLP

20070056453 - Sheet stacking device: A stacking device for incoming sheets, including a receiving plane, a rotatably arranged element, containing a slot at its circumferential edge for accepting at least a portion of a sheet to be stacked, where, in a first rotation zone, the rotatably arranged element accepts the sheet to be stacked and,... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070056454 - System and apparatus for forming an imprinting tool: Numerous embodiments of a method and apparatus for forming an imprinting tool are disclosed. In one embodiment, an apparatus for forming a substrate-imprinting tool comprises a build platform configured to receive material, a first mold formed on the build platform, the first mold having first mold feature surfaces, and a... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth, P.A.

20070056455 - Ink cartridge and ink filling apparatus: There is disclosed an ink cartridge including a cylindrical member having an ink port at one axial end thereof, a piston, a piston rod, and a thrusting portion. The piston rod is fitted in the cylindrical member air-tightly and slidably, and partially defines an ink chamber within the cylindrical member.... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20070056456 - Method for manufacturing printing plate: A method for manufacturing a printing plate includes forming first trenches having a first depth into an insulative substrate, forming an organic film over the insulative substrate including the first trenches, and forming second trenches having a width smaller than that of the first trenches into the organic film, the... Agent: Jenkens & Gilchrist, P.C.

20070056457 - Lithographic printing plate precursor, lithographic printing method, and novel cyanine dye: A lithographic printing plate precursor comprising a support and an image-recording layer which contains (A) a cyanine dye including a solvent-soluble group and having an absorption maximum in an infrared wavelength region and is capable of being removed with at least one of printing ink and an aqueous component.... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070056458 - Non-offset image forming device with stimulated ink key interface and method: An ink key simulator for image forming devices may simulate the effect of ink key adjustments in offset presses. The image adjustment may be made in response to activation of a simulated ink key, for example, by adjusting the pixel values of the stored data and/or by adjusting imaging light... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC.

20070051252 - Structure of pattern pressing roller: A structure of pattern pressing roller comprises a shaft and a plurality of pattern pressing loops suitable for slipping onto the shaft, wherein each loop consists carved pattern on its surface. The pattern pressing loops are slipped onto the shaft, and they are aligned and located tightly against each other... Agent: Jung Chi Chen

20070051253 - Method and apparatus for performing operations within a stencil printer: An apparatus for performing operations on a surface of an electronic substrate comprises a frame, a dispenser, coupled to the frame, to dispense a material onto the electronic substrate, a stencil moveable on a gantry system having at least one aperture to receive the material as the material is dispensed... Agent: Lowrie, Lando & Anastasi

20070051254 - Stencil screen platemaking apparatus: A stencil screen platemaking apparatus for a heat-sensitive platemaking method, having a thermal head retaining frame to which a thermal head is attached arranged to oppose a platen roller retaining frame having a platen roller attached thereto, and a stepping motor, in a manner permitting contact and separation between the... Agent: Schweitzer Cornman Gross & Bondell LLP

20070051255 - Apparatus and method for increasing deposition of printing material: A method for depositing a printing material on a substrate is provided. The method begins by providing a stencil disposed adjacent to the substrate. The stencil includes a number of apertures to allow printing material to pass therethrough. Printing material is deposited onto and spread across the stencil with a... Agent: Seagate Technology Llc

20070051256 - Rotogravure printing units: A rotogravure printing unit includes a forme cylinder and an inker unit. The inker unit includes a trough which holds liquid or pasty ink. A first inking roller, which can rotate inside the trough, extends over a first width section of the trough and the forme cylinder. A second inking... Agent: Douglas R Hanscom Jones Tullar & Cooper

20070051257 - Ink pattern printing apparatus, method of forming ink pattern using the printing apparatus and method of manufacturing liquid crystal display: An ink pattern printing apparatus comprises a lower frame comprising a printing plate having at least one recess, and an upper frame comprising an ink supply device supplying ink onto the printing plate, a removing blade removing residual ink on an upper surface of the printing plate by releasing a... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, Llc

20070051258 - Device for imaging cylinder: A cylinder-imaging device for imaging a surface of a rotating cylinder is provided. The cylinder imaging device comprises supporting/rotating means operative to support the cylinder with the central axis thereof leveled and rotationally drive the cylinder by impinging on the outer circumference of the cylinder from below at both ends;... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, Plc

20070051259 - Ticket dispenser: An improved device for distributing tickets or coupons is disclosed that includes a plurality of ticket chutes each having a ticket guide assembly for guiding tickets through the chute and an exit slot and biasing tickets against a drive wheel which engages the tickets. The drive wheel is powered by... Agent: Venable LLP

20070051260 - Printing press ink fountain adjustment system: An ink fountain assembly for a printing press has, or can be retrofitted with, a removable template and ink blade adjustment screws having pointer-like knobs. When the template is installed on the assembly, the knobs point to scales printed on the template.... Agent: Gardner Groff Santos & Greenwald, P.c.

20070051261 - Manufacturing method for planographic printing plate for color printing: The invention provides a method for forming planographic printing plates for color printing using a plurality of hues. The method includes at least: image-forming using an amplitude modulation screen only for a planographic printing plate used for printing black color used on a first drum of a printing machine; and... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20070051262 - 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... Agent: John L. Cordani Carmody & Torrance, LLP

20070051263 - Plate spring, which is prevented from being axially displaced on a circular cylindrical surface of a receiving body: The invention relates to a plate spring that is prevented from being axially displaced on a surface of a receiving body, the surface being circular cylindrical at least in areas. The aim of the invention is to provide a plate spring of the aforementioned type that is able to maintain... Agent: William Collard Collard & Roe, P.c.

20070051264 - Printing apparatus and method of tension control: A printing apparatus performs printing on a web of printing paper while transporting the printing paper along a transport path. The printing apparatus includes a first transport mechanism located upstream in the transport path, and a second transport mechanism located downstream in the transport path. The transport speed of the... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070051265 - Method for printing correction: A method for printing corrections with a register control unit for a multicolor printing press equipped with individual printing stations includes placing printed marks on a printed material, which are detected by sensors, or, in conjunction with an image evaluation occurring in an at least partial print image detection and... Agent: Striker, Striker & Stenby

20070044670 - Spray bar control for accomodating multiple widths: An apparatus and method in accordance with the invention for accommodating multiple web widths by controlling fluid flow from a spray bar. Specifically, the apparatus and method receives a request for a reduced web width and controls one or more outside spray nozzles of the spray bar to spray at... Agent: Davidson, Davidson & Kappel, LLC

20070044671 - Device for pressing on a flexible printing form when it is being pulled onto a form cylinder of an offset printing press: A device for pressing on a flexible printing form when it is being pulled onto a form cylinder of an offset printing press. The device makes it possible to use an offset cylinder which is not in phase. The device for pressing on a flexible printing form when it is... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP