Printing inventions 05/07

20070119315 - Personalized photo tote: This invention relates to a process for producing a personalized photo tote comprising in order the steps of selecting a personalized image, personalized text and graphics, wherein the graphic are supplied by a software package, importing the graphics into a template, previewing the personalized image, personalized text, and template, printing... Agent: Legal Department Milliken & Company, (m-495)

20070119316 - Cylindrical body supporting device: A cylindrical body supporting device includes a pair of holders for respectively supporting both end sides in an axial direction of a rotary screen cylinder, and a pair of first eccentric bearings for rotatably supporting the pair of holders. The cylindrical body supporting device also includes an adjusting screw, a... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070119317 - Recording medium conveying mechanism and image recording device including the same: A recording medium conveying mechanism has a conveyor, a cutter, a decurler, and a driver. The conveyor conveys a rolled recording medium while drawing out the recording medium from one end thereof. The cutter cuts the recording medium in a predetermined length. The decurler corrects curl set in the recording... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20070119318 - Variable format offset printing press: A printing press includes a frame that supports one or more printing units. Each printing unit includes a retractable inker module cantileverly supported by the frame, an ink injection system having a pump, a sidelay registration mechanism for one or more plate cylinders of the printing unit, an extension sleeve... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP

20070119319 - Cylinder for receiving a printing form: p

20070119320 - Printing blanket having improved dynamic thickness stability: A printing blanket is provided which resists gauge loss throughout its useful life when subjected to printing nip pressures. The printing blanket includes a printing surface layer and at least one fabric ply. The fabric ply is treated by impregnation with a 100% solids elastomeric urethane compound which penetrates the... Agent: Dinsmore & Shohl LLP

20070119321 - Method of manufacturing a surface structure of a clamping surface of a gripper system in a machine for processing sheets of printing material, gripper system, gripper bar and printing press: A method of manufacturing a surface structure of a clamping surface of a gripper system in a machine for processing sheets of printing material, includes generating the surface structure by the electrical discharge machining method. A gripper system, a gripper bar and printing press are also provided.... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20070119322 - Printing system and method for manufacturing liquid crystal display device using the same: A printing system comprises a moving rail, a cliché plate and a substrate positioned on the moving rail, a printing roller that transcribes a pattern material on the substrate by passing through the cliché plate. The printing system further comprises a cleaning unit that cleans the cliché plate.... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070119323 - Method of on-press developing high speed laser sensitive lithographic printing plate: A method of on-press developing a high-speed laser sensitive lithographic printing plate with ink and/or fountain solution is described. The printing member comprises on a substrate a photosensitive layer soluble or dispersible in ink and/or fountain solution and capable of hardening upon exposure to a laser. The plate is exposed... Agent: Gary Ganghui Teng

20070119324 - Printing device system and patterning method using the same: A printing device system comprises a printing roller that has a blanket adhered to an outer surface thereof. The printing device system further comprises a drying device that dries the blanket of the printing roller.... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070113745 - Marking device: It is an object to provide a marking device which efficiently reduces damage affecting the gimbal mechanism even when it is used under sever conditions and it is dropped from the high location. A marking device has a support 2 mounted inside a housing 1, a light source unit holder... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070113746 - Rotary engraving apparatus: An apparatus for controlling engraving devices, such as computerized rotary engraving machines, having a central processor for receiving stored data regarding engraving job parameters. A portable device having a touch pad permits additional data input during engraving operations.... Agent: Ted M. Anthony

20070113747 - Slip roller or ductor roller for a printing machine: A roller for a printing machine, such as a slip roller or a ductor roller, has a circumferential surface provided with a surface structure and formed of a nonmetallic material. The surface structure is irregularly structured with a plurality of elongate elevations extending substantially parallel to the roller axis and... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20070113748 - Printing press and device for the inline monitoring of printing quality in sheet-fed offset printing presses: A printing press for processing sheet printing materials includes at least one printing unit, a computer and a measuring device for monitoring printing quality during a printing process. The measuring device has a sensing device for measuring by color or spectrally to register the printing material. At least one sheet-guiding... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20070113749 - Portable electrical conductor marking mechanism and method of using same: A portable cable marking mechanism includes a gun-like housing with a pivotally mounted trigger assembly for moving a stamping unit along a predetermined inking path to engage in sequence an inking pad of a replaceable ink cartridge for inking the stamping unit and then a cable sleeve for providing the... Agent: Jerry Richard Potts

20070113750 - Cylinder for processing sheets of printing material and printing press having the cylinder: A cylinder for processing sheets of printing material includes a clamping channel having a central region and edge regions. A tool plate punches and/or scores and/or perforates the sheets. A support plate carries the tool plate. A first clamping system clamps the support plate and has a first holding device... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20070113751 - Page indexing system and apparatus for forming page shapes of system: A finger-operated page turning device for stacked sheets, with methods, apparatus for forming the device as sets of offset voids or notches in alternating pages of a stack. The device is operated by simple movements of the thumb and/or fingers of a user's one hand while holding the stack in... Agent: Sheldon Mak Rose & Anderson PC

20070107610 - Mold assembly for embossing thin products: A mold assembly for embossing thin products includes a first carrier with a female mold connected to an inside thereof and a second carrier with a male mold connected to an inside thereof. The female mold faces the male mold, and the thin product is sandwiched between the male and... Agent: Chia-shun Lee

20070107611 - Photogravure press and method for manufacturing multilayer ceramic electronic component: In a print area provided on a peripheral surface of a gravure roll, a plurality of cells are defined by printing-direction walls and perpendicular walls, and each perpendicular wall has a plurality of cuts. In a center portion of the print area, most intersections of the printing-direction walls and the... Agent: Murata Manufacturing Company, Ltd. C/o Keating & Bennett, LLP

20070107612 - Cylinder of a printing press and bearing arrangements for it: A cylinder assembly for a printing press includes a pair of bearing assemblies mounted in side frames of a printing press, and a cylinder body having a pair of opposed end surfaces with no axle stubs clamped between the bearing assemblies. Each end surface is fixed to a respective bearing... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane

20070107613 - Method and device for clearance adjustment for lead-in roller clearance adjustment mechanism: A lead-in roller clearance adjustment mechanism includes a pair of lead-in rollers for guiding a web with a clearance therebetween and a clearance adjustment mechanism for adjusting an amount of clearance. The lead-in roller clearance adjustment mechanism further includes motors for driving the clearance adjustment mechanism and potentiometers for detecting... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070107614 - Stamp and fabricating method thereof, thin film transistor using the stamp, and liquid crystal display device having the thin film transistor: Provided are a method of fabricating a stamp, a thin film transistor and a liquid crystal display device using the same. The stamp has an improved contact property with respect to a substrate. A charged zone is formed on the substrate using the stamp, and nano material charged with opposite... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070107615 - Exposure processing method of a planographic printing plate and apparatus for executing the same method: The present invention provides an exposure processing method of a planographic printing plate including: providing an image recording layer containing a polymerizable compound which is solid at room temperature, a polymerization initiator, and a light-to-heat converting agent, and a microcapsule encapsulating at least one of the monomer and the polymerization... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070101876 - Foil transfer press: A method of transfer printing from a web of foil or flock onto a garment mounted on the pallet of a rotary screen printing machine. A heat press machine with a web feed attachment mounted on the upper platen of the heat press is provided at one printing station of... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz LLP Suite 800

20070101877 - Dual printing mask for screen printing: A dual printing mask is used for coating a die adhering paste of a predetermined pattern on a substrate uniformly during a semiconductor packaging process. This dual printing mask includes a metal mask layer having a predetermined pattern of openings so as to receive a paste for adhering a semiconductor... Agent: Jones Day

20070101878 - Press unit of a press, and press: A press unit of a press, in particular a web-fed rotary press, having at least one printing unit, the printing unit having at least one cylinder module comprising a form cylinder and a transfer cylinder and an inking module comprising an inking unit and, preferably, a damping unit. The inking... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070101879 - Offset printing machine: The invention relates to the drive of a printing machine. Cylinders and functional groups are to be driven with low technical expenditure. To this end, all form cylinders (1.1, 1.2) in a printing unit, for example, are driven respectively by separate electric motors (7) and are not in mechanical drive... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane

20070101880 - Printing line with a web storage unit and post-processing system: In a method for operating a printing line comprising a first printer that prints print images on a continuous first web, and at least one second printer that prints print images on a continuous second web, the webs are post-processed with at least one post-processing system. With a web storage... Agent: Schiff Hardin, LLP Patent Department

20070101881 - Printing press and method for the production of newspapers: The printing press for producing newspapers includes several unwinders from which coldset webs can be unreeled, coldset printing couples for printing the coldset webs with coldset inks, coldset formers and a coldset folder for processing the coldset webs into longitudinally and transversely folded coldset signatures. The printing press also includes... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane

20070101882 - Polychrome rotary press: e

20070101884 - Printing blanket including a non-extensible backing layer and a relief area which may be mounted in a variety of lockup mechanisms: A printing blanket is provided which may include a printable surface ply, a compressible ply, one or more reinforcing fabric plies, and a non-extensible backing layer comprising a polymeric material. The printing blanket has first and seconds ends which are adapted to be inserted into the gap of a printing... Agent: Dinsmore & Shohl LLP

20070101883 - Printing system using shape-changing materials: A printing plate suitable for retaining ink in an imagewise fashion on a main surface thereof defines an array of pixel-sized cavities. Each cavity has associated therewith a quantity of a light-induced shape-memory polymer. When a cavity is exposed with energy, such as from an imaging laser, the quantity of... Agent: Patent Documentation Center Xerox Corporation

20070101885 - System for monitoring contamination of a substrate surface using a contact cleaning roller: A CCR system 100,200 for removing and analyzing particles from a surface 104 of a substrate 102. A CCR 113 is selectively contactable with the substrate surface. The CCR rolls along the surface, which typically is drawn past the CCR as a continuous moving web on a roller 108, the... Agent: Robert C. Brown

20070101886 - Method of processing laser sensitive lithographic printing plate: A method of developing a laser sensitive lithographic printing plate with ink and/or fountain solution is described. The printing member comprises on a substrate a photosensitive layer soluble or dispersible in ink and/or fountain solution and capable of hardening upon exposure to a laser. The plate is exposed with a... Agent: Gary Ganghui Teng

20070101887 - Process for controlling the quantity of ink applied to a material being printed and corresponding device: This process for controlling the quantity of ink applied to a material being printed comprises the stages of: driving an inking roller (14) and a printing roller (8) at first inking and printing speeds, changing the printing speed to a second printing speed, changing the inking speed to a second... Agent: Davidson, Davidson & Kappel, LLC

20070095219 - Apparatus and method for imprinting a vial: An apparatus and method for printing onto vials. The vials may be connected in a series, the vials having an open end and a closed end. The apparatus comprises a conveyor for moving the vials, the conveyor having a mandrel for receiving the open end of the vials. The mandrel... Agent: Perret Doise A Professional Law Corporation

20070095218 - Pole marking system for improved manufacturing process: The invention relates to an assembly for marking a pole transported by a conveyor, including a support frame located adjacent at least a portion of the conveyer. The assembly also includes at least one print head assembly for marking the pole. The at least one print head assembly includes at... Agent: Hoffman & Baron, LLP

20070095220 - Kits for creating artistic works on residential lawns: A kit for creating an artistic work on a residential lawn includes: first and second lawn stencils; first and second containers of paint of first and second colors; and a plurality of stakes. The stakes are used to anchor the lawn stencils to the lawn, and the paint is used... Agent: Tillman Wright, PLLC

20070095221 - Substrate having frangible stencil segments: A substrate includes a plurality of segments each having one or more stencils. A frangible portion of the substrate is located between adjacent segments. Alternatively, a stencil dispensing apparatus includes a substrate roll having a plurality of the segments. Indicia can be on the substrate roll and equidistant from the... Agent: Lewis And Roca LLP

20070095222 - Making stencils for creating artistic works on residential lawns: A method of making a plurality of the same combination of lawn stencils, which combination is used to create an artistic work on a lawn, includes: simultaneously cutting a first predetermined pattern of one or more openings in each sheet of a first stack of sheets by applying a high... Agent: Tillman Wright, PLLC

20070095223 - Method for creating artistic works on residential lawns: A method for creating an artistic work on a lawn includes: anchoring a first stencil to a lawn; applying paint of a first color in a first desired pattern on the lawn by applying paint over a first pattern of one or more openings in the first lawn stencil; anchoring... Agent: Tillman Wright, PLLC

20070095224 - Method for producing a high-resolution surface pattern: The invention concerns a process for producing a high-resolution surface pattern on a substrate and a multi-layer body produced by means of that process and an apparatus for carrying out the process. A printing substance is applied in pattern form to the substrate by means of a printing process. For... Agent: Hoffmann & Baron, LLP

20070095225 - Printing machine and printing machine system: A printing machine is provided with a control panel for use in the printing machine's control. The control panel is located on one side of the printing machine which includes at least one printing unit which has at least one pair of cylinder. This at least one pair of cylinders... Agent: Douglas R Hanscom Jones Tullar & Cooper

20070095226 - Rotary roller printing press: A rotary roller printing press has a printing unit for printing a web in six printed pages arranged axially next to each other. A superstructure is used to cut the web longitudinally into three partial webs. A folding installation is used to fold the partial webs and includes at least... Agent: Jones, Tullar & Cooper, P.C.

20070095227 - Media ejection: Various embodiments and methods for media ejection are disclosed.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070095228 - Conservation of energy transfer during an emergency stop: According to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, a method for operating a multi-unit printing arrangement, including multiple individual motors is provided. The method comprises the steps of operating the multi-unit printing arrangement, stopping the multi-unit printing operation by braking the multiple motors in stop operations, and staggering impression... Agent: Davidson, Davidson & Kappel, LLC

20070095229 - Apparatus and method for registering a position of a component of a press: An apparatus and method for registering a position of a component of a press is disclosed. The press having a plurality of components that can rotate about a central longitudinal axis, such as a main drive shaft and press cylinders, at least one of these components being assigned at least... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070095230 - Printing device: The invention relates to a printing device for printing sheet elements (2) that are serially fed to the printing device, in particular product labels made of temperature-sensitive paper or paper substitute materials, comprising at least two separate feed devices (3a, . . . , 3f) for each liner strip (1)... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20070095231 - Apparatus and method for balancing a printing roller having an image producing area on its outer surface: Apparatus for balancing a printing roller having an image producing area thereon, includes a detector for detecting any unbalance of the printing roller during rotation thereof. A computer determines weight adjustments of the printing roller that are required to correct the unbalance, in response to the detection. A laser is... Agent: Richard M. Goldberg

20070095232 - Lithographic printing press and method for on-press imaging lithographic printing plate: A lithographic printing press having a plate cylinder in a substantially light-tight compartment suitable for on-press imaging and developing a laser sensitive plate is described. The plate cylinder as well as certain other press parts is covered by non-transparent and/or safe-light-passing-only covers so that no or only limited amount of... Agent: Gary Ganghui Teng

20070095233 - Method for determining an image area to be exposed on a printing plate: A method for aligning a printing plate, prior to imaging, on a platesetter includes the steps of: determining a leading edge of the printing plate; feeding the printing plate by the leading edge onto punch equipment resident on the platesetter; centering the printing plate on the platesetter along the leading... Agent: Agfa Corporation Law & Patent Department

20070095235 - Dynamic color separation at a digital press: A method for automatically generating a color separation at a digital press comprises defining a color ink array of n-color inks. A separation model is constructed at the digital press based on parameters of the digital press and ink parameters of each of the n-color inks. The constructed separation model... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070095234 - Fabric printing having three-dimensional illusion: Advances in digital imaging, half-tone printing and printing of the entire garment combine to provide realistic optical illusions of three dimension on garments or fabric. Throughout this application, “fabric” means cloth, film, or any pliable and wearable, utilitarian or aesthetic material. Crude air brush simulations or hand illustrations have herein... Agent: Hoffman, Wasson & Gitler, P.C. Crystal Center 2, Suite 522