Printing inventions 07/07

20070169642 - Printing method for window blind slats: A printing method for window blind slats includes three blind slats situated side by side before three printing rollers that are equidistantly spaced out in a transverse direction with one growth-ring printing area and two fine-texture printing areas alternatively arranged and precisely formed at corresponding lengthwise and widthwise positions of... Agent: Troxell Law Office PLLC

20070169643 - Clear stamp and method of manufacturing same: Embodiments of the present invention include ink stamp dies, ink stamps and methods of manufacturing the same. Embodiments of the ink stamp dies may include two different materials. The first material may be opaque and the second material may be substantially transparent and adhered to the first material. The second... Agent: Morriss Obryant Compagni, P.C.

20070169644 - Stamp: This invention provides a stamp which enables a print image combining a fixed print face with a changeable print face to be visibly recognized through a sample. A date stamp forms a print image by synthesizing a fixed print face with a movable print face arbitrarily selectable by operating an... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070169645 - 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.

20070169646 - Printing spacers on lcd substrates: Apparatus and methods for printing spacers on LCD substrates include a printing roller and a planarizing unit. The printing roller picks up a plurality of spacer ink dots, each containing a plurality of minute, rigid, spherical spacers, onto an outer surface thereof and prints them on an LCD substrate at... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20070169648 - Dressing on a cylinder, or a transfer cylinder, as well as printing units of a printing press: A blanket is located on an outer surface of a roller, such as a printing unit roller. The blanket has an elastic and/or a compressive layer with a surface pressure that depends on the degree of the impression. The layer is selected so that a depending of the surface pressure... Agent: Jones, Tullar & Cooper, P.C.

20070169647 - Servomechanical inker for a container decorator: An improved inking apparatus is provided that omits the use of the bull gear generally known in the art. More specifically, bull gears have traditionally been used in inking apparatus to rotate pinion gears that rotate shafts interconnected to plate cylinders. Plate cylinders in turn apply ink to a blanket... Agent: Sheridan Ross PC

20070169649 - Press operation and management information system for offset sheet fed printing industry: A press operation and management information system for offset sheet fed printing industry for accurately counting total and “good” printed paper that has gone through a printing press. The press operation and management information system for offset sheet fed printing industryincludes a system control including a control card, wherein the... Agent: Neustel Law Offices, Ltd.

20070169650 - Housing assembly for a self-inking stamp: A housing assembly for a self-inking stamp is mounted detachably on a stationary casing of the self-inking stamp and has a slidable casing and a transparent cover. The slidable casing has a top, two ends, an open bottom, an identification recess and a curved recess. The identification recess is formed... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20070169651 - Printing machine: A printing machine includes an inking unit having a roller and a doctor-type ink fountain associated with the roller. The doctor-type ink fountain has an adjustable rear wall for setting an ink level of printing ink stored in the doctor-type ink fountain. The rear wall has a flow profile for... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20070169653 - Printing rubber blanket: A printing blanket is designed to have less sink-down, less variation in thickness along with time, less susceptible to temperature or moisture, and which employs woven fabric having excellent measurement stability, thereby having a sufficient durability against variation in thickness in high-speed printing. The printing rubber blanket includes a surface... Agent: Cooper & Dunham, LLP

20070169652 - Sleeve for a printing-press cylinder, and printing-press cylinder: A sleeve for a cylinder, in particular for a transfer cylinder or a blanket cylinder, of a printing press, having a base body which has at least one layer and a replaceable body which has at least one layer. The base body is connected fixedly to a cylinder of a... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070169654 - Apparatus for the production of thin silicon photovoltaic cells and electronic circuits made of rigid and flexible material: Apparatus for the production of photovoltaic cells and electronic circuits each consisting of at least a layer on which conductor tracks are printed. The apparatus comprises at least a printing unit able to print the conductor tracks on the layer, a drier unit that dries the conductor tracks at a... Agent: Hamre, Schumann, Mueller & Larson, P.C.

20070169655 - Plate handling system: A plate handling system provides for movement from storage of a variety of image-ready printing plates, organized in plate stacks with interleaf protective slipsheets. Each stack contains plates of a particular size, corresponding to the capabilities of an associated imaging system. Each plate stack is supported by a pallet, which... Agent: Patent Legal Staff

20070169656 - Wallpaper printing system: The present invention is a method and system for printing wallpaper derived from a digital image. The system comprises a host computer (130) associated with a printer (150), and a user's terminal computer (120), which communicate over a communications link (140). Using the system a plurality of printed substrates can... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C.

20070163454 - Process and equipment for printing on non-woven-fabric: The present invention relates to a process and equipment (1) for creating prints on non-woven-fabric and, particularly, relates to a process and to equipment (1) which allows the creation of colour prints on non-woven fabrics at high speed whilst at the same time maintaining optimal print quality on wet or... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070163455 - Pad for embossing device: For transferring an image-forming layer from a transfer foil a printing sheet, an adhesive layer is first applied to the sheet to be printed. The transfer foil provided with the image-forming layer is guided past the printing sheet under pressure, in a coating module (2), such that the image-forming layer... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20070163456 - Flexographic printing cylinder: A flexographic printing cylinder (10, 40) includes a cylinder body (20) made of a carbon fiber composite material and carrying a printing pattern on its peripheral surface (34), the printing pattern being formed by a polymer jacket layer (36) that is formed integrally with the cylinder body (20).... Agent: Richard M. Goldberg

20070157827 - Image processing apparatus and method: Two or more designated images are combined (S1254), and the type of security process to be performed for the combined image is input (S1253). The security process is performed for the combined image by using the information associated with the input type of security process (S1255).... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20070157826 - Method and apparatus for duplicating secure documents: A method of securely duplicating in a copying machine a document which includes a readable security device. A method in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention includes: reading the readable security device to determine contents of the readable security device; copying the document; generating a copy of the... Agent: Hoffman, Warnick & D'alessandro LLC

20070157828 - Miniature coils on core with printed circuit: A method for producing a coil assembly includes overlaying printed circuit traces on a core. The traces include terminals for coupling to conductive connections on a base on which the coil assembly is to be mounted. Two or more wires are wrapped around the core so as to define two... Agent: Philip S. Johnson Johnson & Johnson

20070157829 - Printing apparatus for liquid crystal display device and pattern forming method using the same: A printing apparatus for a liquid crystal display (LCD) device and a patterning method using the same is disclosed. The printing apparatus includes a printing plate; a printing roller to roll on the printing plate and to print a pattern material onto a substrate; a coating roller to transfer the... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP Song K. Jung

20070157830 - Printing device and printing method using the same: A printing device and a printing method using the same is disclosed. An air pocket is formed in a cliché stage to prevent a cleaning solution from permeating into a space between the cliché stage and a cliché plate, thereby preventing a lower surface of the cliché plate from being... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070157831 - Methods for the compensation of a transverse elongation and/or longitudinal elongation of a printing material and printing press with several printing couples generating at least one printed image on a printing material: At least one of a transverse elongation and a longitudinal elongation of a printing material are compensated for. The printing material passes through serially arranged printing couples in a printing press. A component of the transverse elongation is compensated for after passage of the printing material through a first printing... Agent: Douglas R Hanscom Jones Tullar & Cooper

20070157832 - Printing unit having a throw-off configuration which allows the risks of damage to the cylinders caused by winding the web of paper to be limited and corresponding printing press: A printing unit for printing a web of paper is provided. The printing unit includes 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 includes a cylinder support and movement mechanism, at... Agent: Davidson, Davidson & Kappel, LLC

20070157833 - Disposable cup insert for pad printing and decorating: A liquid supply assembly for use with a printing system of a type in which a liquid is deposited from the liquid supply assembly in a receiving region on a plate and any excess of the liquid in the receiving region is scraped from the plate by the liquid supply... Agent: Cardinal Law Group Suite 2000

20070157834 - Stamp with a pattern exhibiting a three-dimensional visual effect and method for producing the same: A method for producing a stamp with a pattern includes deciding a design, the design including three sections separated by three imaginary lines that intersect with one another at a common imaginary point, the design being distributed in the three sections and exhibiting a three-dimensional visual effect; and processing an... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20070157835 - Method for mounting a printing plate on a mounting plate: An imaging system employing a printing plate and a mounting plate. The printing plate includes a printable plate body, and a mounting channel extending through the printable plate body. The mounting plate is used to mount the printing plate thereon during an execution of an imaging method (e.g., an indicia... Agent: Cardinal Law Group

20070157836 - Printer for printing individuated items with high durability and/or resolution image: A printer is provided for printing individuated items that are conveyed in a series past a treatment element prior to printing in series to produce high durability or resolution images on the individuated items.... Agent: Peters Verny , L.L.P.

20070157839 - Black matrix of color filter and method of manufacturing the black matrix: A black matrix used with color filters and a method of manufacturing the black matrix. The black matrix is formed on a substrate and defines a plurality of pixel regions. The black matrix has an ink-phobic upper surface having a plurality of nano-sized grooves formed therein, and ink-philic lateral surfaces.... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20070157838 - Method and apparatus for forming a label: In an optical disc drive, adapted for forming a label on the label side 14 of a recordable optical disc 10, a determination of the rotation angle a is provided, so that the marking of the label side 14 can be synchronized upon. The method to determine the rotation angle... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070157837 - Method and apparatus for inking a lens: A method and apparatus for applying ink to the inactive area of a lens, the method comprises the steps of: A, positioning lens; B, preparing stamping member; C, coating and inking by moving the stamping member linearly; D, retracting the stamping member; and E, taking out the lens. The apparatus... Agent: Banger Shia

20070157840 - Method for controlling the ink feed of an offset printing press for model based color control and printing press for carrying out the method: A method is provided for controlling an ink feed of an offset printing press having a control computer and at least one inking unit controlled by the control computer. The control computer calculates an ink layer thickness necessary for the color through the use of spectral reflectance values and, in... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20070157841 - Patterning method and method for manufacturing liquid crystal display device using the same: A patterning method and a method for manufacturing an LCD device using the same are disclosed. The patterning method includes preparing a printing plate having concave and convex portions; coating a pattern material in the concave portion of the printing plate; rolling a printing roller on the printing plate to... Agent: Song K. Jung Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20070151468 - Apparatus and method for making microreplicated article: A roll to roll microreplication apparatus is described. This apparatus forms a microreplicated article including a web having first and second opposed surfaces. The apparatus includes a first patterned roll, first nip roll and first coating die; the first coating die is disposed adjacent the web substrate first side and... Agent: 3m Innovative Properties Company

20070151469 - Apparatus and method for forming pattern: An apparatus and method for forming a pattern is provided, to improve a yield by decreasing the tack time for cleaning a printing plate. The apparatus includes a stage; a substrate loaded on the stage; a printing plate positioned on the stage; a printing unit that prints a printing material... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070151470 - Inking device and corresponding adjustment method: A detector detects the distance between the inking roller and the pick-up roller and/or an angular displacement of the two shafts relative to each other and providing an output signal which represents this distance and/or this angular displacement. A controller angularly the second shaft relative to the first shaft, and... Agent: Davidson, Davidson & Kappel, LLC