Printing inventions 04/07

20070089619 - Digital can decorating apparatus: A digitally controlled can printing apparatus for printing on circular two-piece cans, the apparatus including digital print-heads (30) for printing an image on the cans and drives (29) for transporting and rotating the cans in front of the print-heads (30) in registered alignment.... Agent: Duane Morris, LLPIPDepartment

20070089620 - Printing apparatus, control method thereof and manufacturing method of flat panel display using the same: A printing apparatus that can form an even thin film on a substrate, a method of controlling the printing apparatus, and a method of manufacturing a flat panel display are presented. The printing apparatus includes a table on which a substrate is mounted, a mask located on the table and... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20070089621 - Design devices for applying a design to a surface: Compositions, methods, apparatuses, kits, and combinations are described for permanently or temporarily re-designing, decorating, and/or re-coloring a surface. The compositions useful in the present disclosure include a décor product that is formulated to be applied and affixed to a surface. If desired, the décor product may be substantially removed from... Agent: S.c. Johnson & Son, Inc.

20070089622 - Jacket for impression cylinder or transport cylinder of printing press: Provided is a jacket to be installed on a surface of one of impression cylinders and transport cylinders. The jacket is produced by the following process. Super hard particles, such as ceramic particles, are scattered on a surface of a sheet-shaped base member. A plating layer is then formed on... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070089623 - Water-based-varnish drying apparatus and printing press: A heating unit heats a sheet. A first measuring unit measures or estimates a first temperature of surface of the sheet before the sheet is conveyed to the heating unit. A heating control unit controls an output of the heating unit, in such a manner that the first temperature output... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Berner, LLP

20070089624 - Systems and methods for integrated extended process media productions: Systems and methods are provided for developing media productions that utilize extended press functionality. According to one embodiment, special plate and standard plate requests are received, and the special and standard plates are incorporated into a media production. The media production may be displayed including both the special plates and... Agent: Faegre & Benson LLP Patent Docketing

20070089625 - Method and system for detecting defects during the fabrication of a printing cylinder: The invention relates generally to the field of printing. More specifically, the invention relates to a method and system for automatically detecting defects in a printing cylinder during its fabrication process. The invention further relates to a process for fabricating a printing cylinder.... Agent: Eitan Law Group C/o Landonip Inc.

20070089626 - Functional ink apparatus and method: A functional ink (200) suitable for use as a dielectric layer (303) in a printed semiconductor device (300) comprises a dielectric carrier (201) and a plurality of dielectric particles (202) sized less than about 1,000 nanometers that are disposed within the dielectric carrier. In a preferred approach the dielectric carrier... Agent: Fitch Even Tabin And Flannery

20070084360 - Methods and apparatus for forming variable spaced relief patterns with a single tool pair and articles produced thereby: A method for making an embossed article, tools used to make such articles and the resulting article are disclosed. The article includes a first composite element having a plurality of spaced apart subelements, which is created by mounting a first embossing tool to an embossing press wherein the first embossing... Agent: Graybeal, Jackson, Haley LLP

20070084361 - Transfer device for transferring an article in a printing machine, a printing machine and a method of transfer: The invention relates to a transfer device (15) for transferring an article (9) in a printing machine (2), the device comprising a hinged manipulator arm (20), a hinged gripper clamp (22), and drive means adapted to drive both the manipulator arm (20) and the gripper clamp (22) together in rotation.... Agent: Young & Thompson

20070084362 - Printing apparatus, controlling method thereof and manufacturing method of a flat panel display: A printing apparatus that is capable of facilitating the separation of a mask from a thin film is presented. The separation of the mask from the thin film is important for forming the thin film on a substrate. The printing apparatus includes a table on which the substrate is placed;... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20070084363 - 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.

20070084364 - Method for controlling the feeding of a web substrate into a printing press: A method for controlling the feeding of a web substrate into a printing press, in particular a rotary press, the web substrate being fed with a web tension into the printing press and a printing length to be achieved being specified. A current printing length of the printing press is... Agent: Davidson, Davidson & Kappel, LLC

20070084366 - Printer image drum support: A printer image drum is provided that includes a cylindrical drum formed of a first material, a bearing formed of a second material and an end bell formed of the first material with the end bell mounting the cylindrical drum on the bearing. The image drum is structured so that... Agent: Marger Johnson & Mccollom, P.C.

20070084367 - Printing device system and patterning method using the same: A printing device system and a patterning method using the same is disclosed, to prevent the volume of blanket from being changed due to the dissolution of solvent included in the pattern material, to thereby realize a precise pattern, in which the printing device system comprises a printing roller having... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP Song K. Jung

20070084368 - Dynamic uv-exposure and thermal development of relief image printing elements: A method and a system for dynamic imaging, UV-exposure and thermal development of relief image printing elements, including printing plates and printing sleeves. The imaging step is accomplished using ink jet printing to create an in situ mask layer on a layer of photocurable material followed by exposing the photocurable... Agent: John L. Cordani Carmody & Torrance LLP

20070084369 - Flexographic printing plate and process for production thereof: A flexographic printing plate, which comprises a plate formed in a form of sheet from a composition 100 parts by mass of (A1) a thermoplastic elastomer and 0.1 to 50 parts by mass of (B) silica particles, and has an intended printing pattern formed on at least one side which... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070084370 - Document processing apparatus and method: A document processing apparatus for generating a binder document by binding a plurality of original documents makes access to a storage unit for storing the binder attribute information of the binder types of a plurality of kinds of binder documents, and acquires the binder attribute information corresponding to the binder... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20070084371 - Printers and printing: A blanket fastening assembly for securing an image transfer blanket to an intermediate transfer member drum of an electrostatic printer comprising a resilient biasing arrangement adapted to be connected to an end of the blanket to act in use so as to resiliently tension the blanket, with at least one... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070084372 - High elongation vacuum formable digital ink: A curable ink composition for digitally printing onto plastic substrates that can be formed into three-dimensional objects is provided. Generally, the ink composition comprises a pigment, an acrylic polymer or copolymer, a diluent, and a mono-functional monomer.... Agent: Hovey Williams LLP

20070084373 - Method for imaging printing formes: The method for imaging a rewritable printing forme includes the following steps: providing the rewritable printing forme having a surface, applying an imaging material to the surface of the printing forme in order to provide a permanent and erasable image on the surface of the printing forme, and registering or... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane

20070084374 - Imaging system and method for loading a printing plate: The invention relates to an imaging system for performing a computer-to-plate imaging process on printing plates. The system comprises a plate imaging bed for exposing radiation to a printing plate, the bed being provided with an input section for receiving a printing plate and an output section for transferring the... Agent: Quarles & Brady LLP

20070079710 - Capacitive load driving circuit and method, liquid droplet ejection device, and piezoelectric speaker driving device: There is provided a capacitive load driving circuit which applies a driving signal to a capacitive load. The driving circuit includes: an operational amplifier outputting a difference signal between signals from an inverting input terminal and a non-inverting input terminal, and setting a loop gain; a pulse width modulator pulse-width-modulating... Agent: Fildes & Outland, P.C.

20070079711 - Web offset printing press and method for operating a web offset printing press: A web offset printing press that prints and processes at least one material web and has printing units and/or printing unit assemblies, at least one folder, and transport elements operates by transporting the at least one material web by the transport elements through a web of the printing press into... Agent: Striker, Striker & Stenby

20070079712 - Device and method to feed and align a web with increased web stability for printing: A web alignment method and apparatus for a printing system that includes a friction drive, wherein the alignment device provides one or more of the following: a) a stable medium path with reduced web-walk, b) an alignment system that is not sensitive to the mechanical alignment of an upstream device... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20070079713 - Printing paper winding device: A printing paper winding device for enabling winding of printing paper even paper with a base material having a low resistance to bending stresses or printing paper having RFID labels carrying IC chips. Bending stresses are reduced by dividing the movement region of the tension roller into four regions in... Agent: Ostrolenk Faber Gerb & Soffen

20070079714 - Upgrade kit for offset printers: An upgrade kit for an offset printer that uses a slow speed roller for picking up controlled quantities of ink from an ink distribution rail and feeding the ink from the slow speed roller to a high speed roller. The kit includes a distribution head that has an orifice and... Agent: Vedder Price Kaufman & Kammholz

20070079715 - Offset lithographic printing press having seamed sleeved printing blanket: An offset lithographic printing press combined with a gapped or seamed cylindrical offset printing blanket having pre-made blanket material mounted on a cylindrical sleeve is disclosed, wherein conventional, manufactured blanket material in flat form is adhered to a cylindrical sleeve to economically produce a cylindrical sleeved blanket. The leading and... Agent: William P. Oberhardt William P. Oberhardt, LLC

20070079716 - Rubber stamp package: A rubber stamp package includes a multiplicity of rubber stamps each having a body of circular cross section, a flexible stamp indicium on one surface thereof, and a handle on the other surface thereof, with a free end of the handle being of dome-shaped configuration. A synthetic resin container stores... Agent: Pepe & Hazard, LLP

20070079717 - Inline measurement and closed loop control method in printing machines: Spectral, densitometric, or color measured values are detected on sheet printing materials during the printing process in a sheet-fed printing press. The measured values are determined on sheets as they are moving through the printing press and the measured values are used in real-time by a computer to control parameters... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20070079719 - Ink jet printing and drying a printing material: With a printing material that is to be printed at least two times with color by an ink jet printing device, microwaves are used for drying the ink on the printing material. The printing material is printed, in chronological order, at least two times with color, and the printing material... Agent: Mark G. Bocchetti Patent Legal Staff

20070079718 - Microwave fixing toner on a print: Fixing a toner to a print by heating by a microwave device and including a power source, in which the print is passed through a resonator chamber of the microwave device, in which the microwave power in the resonator chamber is set by at least one element in the resonator... Agent: Patent Legal Staff

20070074633 - Multi-axes inker: An inker is usually used in electrical properties testing processes to mark the defective dies of the semiconductor wafer. However, the conventional inker having only one axis will be shaken during working time, resulting in making a mistake of marking the wrong dies. The present invention discloses a multi-axes inker... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070074634 - Plate cylinder locking mechanism: A hydraulic clamp for being mounted on a shaft. The clamp may comprise a clamp body; an aperture in the clamp body for receiving the shaft, the aperture extending in an axial direction of the clamp body from a first end to a second end; a recess formed in the... Agent: Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott

20070074635 - System to couple a body and a docking plate: The present is directed towards a coupling system including, inter alia, a docking plate having a protrusion positioned thereon, the protrusion controlling an orientation of a body in contact therewith to facilitate a coupling of the body to the docking plate.... Agent: Molecular Imprints