Printing inventions 06/07

20070144361 - Roll-forming apparatus: Roll-forming apparatus is provided together with a conveyor system utilized to transport raw dough rolls. A stop gate is movably positioned in the path of the rolls and, when placed in an interfering position, temporarily stops the rolls while the rolls maintain sliding contact with the conveyor. An imprinter is... Agent: Michael Winfield Goltry

20070144362 - Image forming apparatus and control method therefor: An image forming apparatus which is capable of forming an excellent image while suppressing reduction in productivity to a minimum even when an abnormality occurs in detection of an HP mark on an intermediate transfer member. When there occurs abnormality in detection of any of HP marks, an alternate signal... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20070144363 - Ball identification marking and monogramming tool: A ball marking device in which a ball is easily loaded into and held in position in the device for marking and in which the selected character or indicia are easily loaded into the device.... Agent: Law Office Of Jim Zegeer

20070144364 - Inkjet pad printer: A pad printing system has an ink jet printing mechanism, a cliché device including an imaging surface, a pad assembly including a deformable pad, and an ink jet printing controller. The ink jet printing controller controls positioning of the ink jet printing mechanism to deposit a ink jet deposited image... Agent: Cardinal Law Group

20070144365 - Method and system for printing identification marks: A method of applying an identification mark to a surface of a workpiece by mixing a taggant with a pad printing ink in predetermined proportions and applying the pad printing ink with the taggant included to the surface of the workpiece. A method of applying an identification mark to a... Agent: Cardinal Law Group Suite 2000

20070144366 - Stamp, stamp base, and stamp set: A stamp characterized by the fact that it is prepared by bonding a rubber stamp part to a base with an adhesive sheet having an adhesive layer on both sides, with the adhesive layer on the side of said adhesive sheet for bonding with the rubber stamp part being made... Agent: Seed Intellectual Property Law Group PLLC

20070144367 - Printer: A printer of the present invention includes a print drum around which a master made by cutting a stencil is to be wrapped, an ink feeding device for feeding ink to the master wrapped around the print drum and a pressing member for pressing a sheet relatively to the print... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070144368 - Grippers malfunction monitoring: A system for printing an image on a printing media, comprising: a) an impression roller; b) a gripper which receives the printing media when said gripper is open, closes to hold the printing media to the impression roller while the image is printed, and opens to release the printing media... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070144369 - Printing press with improved web engagement and corresponding web engagement method: A printing press for printing a web of paper is provided. The printing press includes a system for engaging the web of paper, the engagement system including a bar for traction of the web of paper which is capable of extending inside the frame substantially over the entire length of... Agent: Davidson, Davidson & Kappel, LLC

20070144372 - Printing unit having a tubular blanket-changing throw-off configuration allowing the passage of a web of paper and corresponding printing press: A printing unit for printing a web of paper is provided. The printing unit includes a frame and an upper printing group and a lower printing group. The printing unit has at least one throw-on configuration and a blanket-changing throw-off configuration. The blanket cylinders are capable of each receiving at... Agent: Davidson, Davidson & Kappel, LLC

20070144371 - Printing unit having an idle throw-off configuration and a blanket changing throw-off configuration and corresponding printing press: A printing for printing a web of paper is provided. The printing unit includes a frame and at least an upper printing group and a lower printing group. The printing unit has at least a throw-on configuration, an idle throw-off configuration and a blanket-changing throw-off configuration. In the blanket-changing throw-off... Agent: Davidson, Davidson & Kappel, LLC

20070144370 - Printing unit having different extents of movement of the blanket cylinders in order to reach a throw-off configuration and corresponding printing press: A printing unit for printing a web of paper is provided. The printing unit includes a frame and at least an upper printing group and a lower printing group, each printing group including a blanket cylinder and a plate cylinder. The printing unit also including a cylinder support and movement... Agent: Davidson, Davidson & Kappel, LLC

20070144373 - Cutting-off control apparatus and method for a printing machine: To prevent incorrect recognition of marks on a web, and to lighten a load to memory and arithmetic systems associated with mark recognition, a control apparatus for a printing machine includes a positional relationship acquisition means for previously obtaining a positional relationship between a position in a web traveling direction... Agent: Kanesaka Berner And Partners LLP

20070144375 - Printing machines having at least one machine element that can be adjusted by a setting element: A printing machine has at least one machine element which can be adjusted by the use of a setting element. An adjustment of the one machine element has an effect on the quality of the printing performed by the printing machine. An optical detection device, which includes a sensor that... Agent: Douglas R Hanscom Jones Tullar & Cooper

20070144374 - Register adjusting mechanism for split plate cylinder: Disclosed is a register adjusting mechanism for a split plate cylinder, which comprises first and second axial register adjustment means C, D operable to axially move an operation-side plate cylinder 2 and a drive-side plate cylinder 1, respectively, so as to adjust an axial register thereof independently, and first and... Agent: Jordan And Hamburg LLP

20070144376 - Device for guiding at least one line: The invention relates to a device for guiding a power supply chain (30). Said device comprises a distribution trough (4), which has a distribution surface (6) and lateral guides (8), for distributing the power supply chain (30). According to the invention, the power supply chain (30) comprises at least one... Agent: William Collard Collard & Roe, P.C.

20070144377 - Doctor device: The present invention provides a doctor device for metering and/or equalizing a liquid-to-pasty medium applied to a running surface, wherein in the case of direct application the surface is a running paper web, paperboard web or other fibrous web and in the case of indirect application a transfer element which... Agent: Taylor & Aust, P.C.

20070144378 - Collapsible packaging system: A printing machine including a material supply module adapted to expel a marking material contained in a collapsible package having an information-bearing tag. The material supply module includes a reader for obtaining information from the information-bearing tag, a package opening actuator configured to cause the collapsible package to open, and... Agent: Anthony P. Gangemi Wiggin And Dana

20070144379 - Developing method, and printing machine for executing the developing method: A printing plate developing method includes an image recording step for recording an image on a printing plate with an image recorder, an ink key opening degree setting step for setting opening degrees of ink keys in an ink feeder such that the larger opening degree is set for the... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070144381 - Covering for printing machines: The invention relates to a sleeve for mounting on carrier cylinders of printing machines, with two flange rings 11, 12 on the ends, on which a cylindrical outer sleeve wall 20 and an inner sleeve wall 30 are supported at a distance from each other. In order to create a... Agent: Fay Sharpe LLP

20070144380 - Printing blanket having a dimensionally stable carrier plate, a method for producing a printing blanket of this type, and a printing unit for a printing machine without a damping unit: A printing blanket or dressing includes a dimensionally stable carrier plate which has ends that can be secured to a transfer cylinder. A coating is applied to the carrier plate and forms the lateral surface of the transfer cylinder. A recess is located in the printing blanket or dressing intermediate... Agent: Douglas R Hanscom Jones Tullar & Cooper

20070144383 - Composite pad printing plate: A composite printing plate having a body including a first surface and a generally opposed printing surface, the body made of a polymeric matrix and a plurality of beads dispersed in the polymeric matrix. The plate further including a design in the printing surface defined by a base and an... Agent: Patterson, Thuente, Skaar & Christensen, P.A.

20070144382 - Lightened offset plates, preparation and use thereof: The present invention concerns: plates for use in wet offset printing, which have been lightened in an original manner; the preparation of said plates; and their use in the context of wet offset printing. In characteristic manner, said plates comprise two groups of small non ink-accepting lightening surfaces in at... Agent: Dennison, Schultz & Macdonald

20070144384 - Image recording method: The invention provides an image recording method and a lithographic printing method in which both high image quality and good fine line reproducibility can be achieved, and high sensitivity and safety under white light can be obtained, and the image recording method for a lithographic printing plate, which comprises imagewise... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070144385 - Printing members having permeability-transition layers and related methods: Permeability transitions rather than ablation mechanisms facilitate selective removal of the imaging layer of a lithographic plate, which allows for imaging with low-power lasers that need not impart ablation-inducing energy levels.... Agent: Goodwin Procter LLP Patent Administrator

20070144386 - Printing members having permeability-transition layers and related methods: Permeability transitions rather than ablation mechanisms facilitate selective removal of the imaging layer of a lithographic plate, which allows for imaging with low-power lasers that need not impart ablation-inducing energy levels.... Agent: Goodwin Procter LLP Patent Administrator

20070144387 - Movable frame parts in a printing press: A printing unit of a printing press includes at least two frame parts whose distance from each other can be varied. Each of these frame parts include two laterally spaced frame plates. The two frame plates in each of the frame parts accommodate at least one cylinder or roller which... Agent: Douglas R Hanscom Jones Tullar & Cooper

20070144388 - Apparatus, system, and method for print quality measurements: An apparatus includes at least one scanner. Each scanner includes a plurality of sensors, and each sensor is capable of measuring one or more characteristics associated with a portion of a substrate. The substrate has printing produced by a printing system. The apparatus also includes a controller capable of receiving... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20070144390 - Device and method for determining process status by tone value and color reproduction measurement: The present invention concerns measures for the space-optimized determination of printing-related measured values. With the aid of a tone value and/or color gradient in a control patch and a suitable measuring device, it is possible to obtain, in a smaller amount of space, adequate or even detailed information about the... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane

20070144389 - Method for selecting printing material in a printing press and printing press: An apparatus and a method for the selection of printing materials in a machine processing printing materials has at least one control computer. The operating data of the machine processing the printing materials is logged by the computer and a tolerance limit corresponding to the operating data registered is stored... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20070144391 - Method of exchanging a printing unit at a running rotary printing press: A method of exchanging printing units at a running rotary printing press, wherein a first printing unit is withdrawn from the printing medium, and a second printing unit for printing the same image with the same register is set against the printing medium, includes the steps of applying to the... Agent: Richard M. Goldberg

20070137506 - Machine and method for making a rotogravure printing medium: A machine can deposit a film on a roll that will be used as a rotogravure printing medium. The machine has a carriage for rotatably holding the roll. Also included is a rotary driver for rotating the roll, and a linear driver for moving the carriage downstream along a processing... Agent: The Law Offices Of Thomas L. Adams

20070137507 - Novel means of delivery of fountain solutions for printing: A fountain solution kit comprising: (a) a first water-soluble pouch which contains solid materials suitable for a fountain solution; (b) a second water-soluble pouch which contains a liquid; and, optionally, (c) a third water-soluble pouch which contains the first and second water-soluble pouches. Also disclosed is a method of delivering... Agent: Kurt G. Briscoe Norris, Mclaughlin & Marcus P.A.

20070137508 - Printing press having plate locking actuators carried by the frame: This printing press includes a frame and at least one plate cylinder which extends along a longitudinal axis and which is mounted so as to rotate on the frame in order to be able to rotate about the longitudinal axis thereof. The press includes at least one actuator and the... Agent: Davidson, Davidson & Kappel, LLC

20070137509 - Electrowetting printer: A print system includes a print structure with a surface. The print system further includes an electrolyte bath in which the surface of the print structure passes through while being exposed by an expose component that forms an image of charge on the surface. An electrolyte from the electrolyte bath... Agent: Mark S. Svat Fay, Sharpe, Fagan, Minnich & Mckee, LLP

20070137510 - Printing units and methods for moving a frame part: A printing unit has at least one cylinder or roller which is mounted in a frame part that is movable by the use of rolls. The rolls are movable between a deployed position and a retracted position. In the deployed position, the rolls support the movable frame part. In the... Agent: Douglas R Hanscom Jones Tullar & Cooper

20070137511 - Printing units and methods for moving a frame part: The invention relates to a method for manufacturing a screen print reflection transfer product and to reflection transfer systems produced by this method. According to said method, the reflecting color is provided with a multitude of reflecting particles, said reflecting particles protruding from the surface of the top color coat.... Agent: William Collard Collard & Roe, P.C.

20070131124 - Printing plate, method of manufacturing the printing plate, roll printing apparatus including the printing plate, and method of manufacturing display device using the roll printing apparatus: A printing plate, a method of manufacturing the printing plate, a roll printing apparatus including the printing plate, and a method of manufacturing a display device using the roll printing apparatus are provided. The roll printing apparatus includes a printing plate including an array of a plurality of grooves arranged... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20070131125 - Wear detector for ink fountain films: A device for determining the wear of ink fountain films in an ink fountain has at least one ink metering element and a ductor in a printing press. The ink metering element can be moved in the direction of the doctor. A closed position of the ink metering element with... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20070131126 - method for preventing disturbances during start up and operation of a printing press: A method for preventing disturbances during the start up or operation of a printing press includes the steps of (a) detecting current measurement values for selected parameters of the printing press automatically and continuously during at least one of production start up and operation; (b) automatically comparing the current measurement... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane

20070125246 - Apparatus and method for controlling delivery of dampener fluid in a printing press: An apparatus and method in accordance with the invention for automatically controlling dampener settings. Specifically, the apparatus and method detects scumming on a material to be printed and using that information to set the dampener solution flow.... Agent: Davidson, Davidson & Kappel, LLC

20070125247 - Method and apparatus for coating of implants: The present invention relates to a method and a device for applying a defined amount of a coating material onto the surface of an implant by means of a printing process, in particular using a printing roller. The invention also relates to the use of a printing process, in particular... Agent: Dorsey & Whitney LLP Intellectual Property Department

20070125249 - Arrangement and method for synchronizing printing presses and additional components: An arrangement for synchronizing printing presses and additional components, in which arrangement a printing press and/or an additional component form/forms a unit and are/is connected to further units, and the drives of the connected units are synchronized, the units having either AC drives and/or DC drives and being synchronized internally... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070125248 - Embossing drum system with removable outer sleeve and methods of use: In one embodiment, an embossing drum system comprise: a mandrel having outer surface with an external taper, a primary journal extending from a first end of the mandrel, a secondary journal extending from a second end of the journal, a sleeve having an inner sleeve surface with an internal taper,... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20070125250 - Printing cylinder for a rotary web press and method for operating a rotary web press: A printing cylinder for a rotary web press to which at least one printing form is attached and a method for operating a rotary web press is disclosed. The printing cylinder is built up of at least one cylinder core and an adapter sleeve installed thereon, wherein the adapter sleeve... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070125251 - Devices and methods for raising and/or lowering a printing form: A printing form is either raised or is lowered by the use of a pressure device which includes a roller. The roller is arranged on a cross-beam in such a way that the roller can selectively be placed on, or taken off the forme cylinder, or a forme that is... Agent: Douglas R Hanscom Jones Tullar & Cooper

20070125252 - Device and method for printing features onto a substrate: Features (31, 51, 91) are printed onto a substrate (30, 50, 90) by providing a cliché (20, 40) having multiple narrow lines having a predefined spacing, filling the cliché with a printing medium and printing the lines onto the substrate, the spacing between the printed lines being such that the... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070125253 - Method for monitoring and analysing the printing process of a press: A method for monitoring and analysing the printing process of a press includes both measured data which reproduce or influence the quality of the printed product and measured data which reproduce the state and consumption of the press or its parts are acquired. To monitor and analyse the printing process,... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane

20070125254 - System and method for mounting a plate to an adhesive member: A system and method for adhering and aligning a generally flat, planar object to an adhesive layer, and for facilitating the mounting of the generally flat planar object, such as a printing plate, in near perfect alignment in a cylindrical manner. The method includes providing a generally flat, planar object... Agent: Bourque & Associates Intellectual Property Attorneys, P.A.

20070125255 - Method for patterning a substrate surface: An elastomeric stamp (10) is provided, which has a bulk surface (12) from which protruding features (14, 14′) extend. A barrier layer (20) covers the bulk surface (12) and the protruding features (14, 14′). After applying an ink solution to the elastomeric stamp (10) and drying the elastomeric stamp (10),... Agent: Philips Electronics North America Corporation Intellectual Property & Standards