Printing inventions 08/07

20070199455 - Machine and method for marking hollow parts: This machine for marking hollow parts comprises a marking member designed to be on contact in at least one line of tangency with a hollow part for it to be marked, and a first and a second mandrel capable of supporting respectively a first part to be marked and a... Agent: Ralph A. Dowell Of Dowell & Dowell P.C.

20070199456 - Squeeze for screen printer: Disclosed is a squeeze for a screen printer. The present invention provides a squeeze for a screen printer, which coats a printed circuit board with an adhesive paste while moving parallel over a metal mask on the printed circuit board, the printed circuit board being open through an opening of... Agent: Jones Day

20070199457 - Systems and methods for high speed variable printing: Systems and methods for high-speed variable printing are provided. Ink jet technology and lithographic systems may be combined in such a way to create a fully variable and high-quality print system. At least one area of a plate is reserved for variable information to be printed. The plate may already... Agent: Fish & NeaveIPGroup Ropes & Gray LLP

20070199458 - Systems and methods for high speed variable printing: Systems and methods for high-speed variable printing are provided. Ink jet technology and lithographic systems may be combined in such a way to create a fully variable and high-quality print system. Ink is applied to a printing cylinder. An aqueous solution is then applied on top of the ink to... Agent: Fish & NeaveIPGroup Ropes & Gray LLP

20070199459 - Systems and methods for high speed variable printing: Systems and methods for high-speed variable printing are provided. Ink jet technology and lithographic systems may be combined in such a way to create a fully variable and high-quality print system. A protective positive image in an aqueous solution is applied on top of ink applied to a print cylinder.... Agent: Fish & NeaveIPGroup Ropes & Gray LLP

20070199460 - Systems and methods for high speed variable printing: Systems and methods for high-speed variable printing are provided. Ink jet technology and lithographic systems may be combined in such a way to create a fully variable and high-quality print system. An aqueous solution is applied to a cylinder to produce a first negative image. A positive image in ink... Agent: Fish & NeaveIPGroup Ropes & Gray LLP

20070199461 - Systems and methods for high speed variable printing: Systems and methods for high-speed variable printing are provided. Ink jet technology and lithographic systems may be combined in such a way to create a fully variable and high-quality print system. An aqueous solution is applied to a cylinder to produce a negative image. The aqueous solution may comprise a... Agent: Fish & NeaveIPGroup Ropes & Gray LLP

20070199462 - Systems and methods for high speed variable printing: Systems and methods for high-speed variable printing are provided. Ink jet technology and lithographic systems may be combined in such a way to create a fully variable and high-quality print system. Ink is applied to a first cylinder. Aqueous solution is applied to a second cylinder to produce a negative... Agent: Fish & NeaveIPGroup Ropes & Gray LLP

20070199463 - Method for producing print control strips and method for regulating inking by using print control strips: The method for producing print control strips used for the control of a process of printing an image, which has several inking zones, using at least one scale color includes providing for each inking zone of the image to be printed data from a prepress stage, evaluating the data from... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane

20070199464 - Apparatus for transporting sheets with a gripper device: An apparatus for transporting sheets to or in a sheet-processing machine includes a gripper device having at least one gripper with a gripper housing and a gripper pad. The gripper is actuatable by a pivoting movement of a gripper shaft. The gripper housing and the gripper pad are pivotably disposed... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20070199465 - Sheet-transporting apparatus: In the case of a sheet-transporting gripper configuration in a sheet-processing machine, e.g. printing machine, it is provided that a low-mass gripper housing contains thin side walls enclosing a gripper shaft such that imaginary extensions of leaf springs provided intersect at a point on a straight line which passes through... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20070199466 - System and method for printing on fabric with digital templates: A system and method of marking at least one guideline (76) on sheets of fabric (58) using a digital template (52A) composed of lines and marks that outline shapes required in a fabric item or quilt, with a personal computer (54) and a printer (56). The ink is deposited on... Agent: Linda E Franz

20070199467 - Continuously printing images on a web material and continuously transferring the images to identity documents: A system and method for continuously printing images on a web material and continuously transferring the images to identity documents. A print component prints images on the web material. A registration component registers select images to identity documents. An applicator component applies the select images to the identity documents. A... Agent: Hamre, Schumann, Mueller & Larson, P.C.

20070193456 - Liquid supply apparatus: A screen of a rotary screen apparatus has a base layer, a protection layer and a reinforcement layer. The cylindrical base layer has holes in the circumferential surface thereof. On a part of the base layer facing a part of the outer peripheral surface of an impression cylinder not holding... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070193457 - Noncontact web stabilizer: A noncontact web stabilizer is provided in which members located on opposite sides of a web reduce out-of-plane web vibrations. Specifically, a first member is located on one side of a web and a second member is located on the opposite side of the web. Both members are positioned so... Agent: Davidson, Davidson & Kappel, LLC

20070193458 - Impression mold for relief art: An impression mold for relief art, for applying slightly three-dimensional pattern on a piece of paper or a card, comprises at least a mold plate and a pattern piece connected to the mold plate. One surface of the mold plate defines an area of molding, which includes a multitude of... Agent: Tsung-yi Cheng

20070193459 - Plate for rotary screen apparatus and method of manufacturing the same: A screen is manufactured by carrying out a step of electroforming a base layer and a step of electroforming a protection layer. In the base layer electroforming step, a cylindrical mother die with a copper circumferential surface is immersed in an electroforming solution containing nickel ions. Then, while electric current... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070193460 - Method of processing on-press developable lithographic printing plate: A method of deactivating and on-press developing an exposed lithographic printing plate is disclosed. The plate comprises on a substrate a photosensitive layer developable with ink and/or fountain solution and capable of hardening upon exposure to a radiation. The plate is exposed with the radiation, deactivated, and then on-press developed... Agent: Gary Ganghui Teng

20070193461 - Method for providing a substrate with a printed pattern which comprises a number of separate pattern elements: During the manufacture of PoIyLED displays, printed elements of the LEDs are obtained by first printing bottom element layers (23a) and subsequently printing top element layers, according to a predetermined pattern. When the dimensions of a PoIyLED display are relatively large, the printing process of each layer (23a) takes place... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070193462 - Printing process and machine: The machine comprises at least a printing cylinder (4), an inking cylinder (5) and a chain gripper transporting system (2,3) with grippers (17). The printing cylinder (4) comprises at least one transversal pit (7) for receiving said chain gripper system (3) such that the inking cylinder (5) inks the planar... Agent: Crompton, Seager & Tufte, LLC

20070193463 - Device and method for controlling the temperature of a rotating body: A cylinder of a printing press is provided with an axial bore in which a fluid supply line is supported by spacers forming a return duct having an annular cross section, so that the inlet and the outlet of the fluid are at the same end of the cylinder.... Agent: Cohen Pontani Lieberman & Pavane LLP

20070186790 - Digital can decorating apparatus: A digitally controlled can decorating apparatus (40) including digitally controlled print heads (50) arrayed around the blanket cylinder (20) of an offset type decorating apparatus for delivering ink in a selected pattern from each print head (50) to each blanket section (17) of the blanket cylinder (20), and the blanket... Agent: Duane Morris, LLPIPDepartment

20070186791 - Apparatus and method for forming pattern: The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for forming a predetermined pattern on a substrate using a gravure offset printing method. The apparatus for forming a pattern using a gravure offset printing method comprises a gravure on which a pattern to be filled with a color resist is... Agent: Daly, Crowley, Mofford & Durkee, LLP

20070186792 - Dampening water quantity measuring apparatus and dampening water adjusting method: In a dampening water measuring apparatus, light emitted from a semiconductor laser has its beam expanded by an objective lens, and is then reflected by a beam splitter to irradiate a non-image area on a surface of a printing plate P. The laser beam reflected from the non-image area on... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070186793 - Control of a printing press using a torsion model and printing press controlled by the torsion model: A method and an apparatus control a printing press having a plurality of printing units, a plurality of cylinders which are coupled mechanically to one another and a control computer for controlling at least one drive motor which drives the mechanically coupled cylinders. A torsion model is stored in the... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20070186794 - Inking device for a printing machine, in particular a flexographic printing machine: An inking device for inking the screened cylinder of a printing machine, in particular a flexographic printing machine, comprises an inking chamber, delimited by delimiting doctors, and coupled to an ink vessel to which ink is continuously supplied through an ink delivery pipe and therefrom a pipe for continuously supplying... Agent: Kirschstein, Ottinger, Israel & Schiffmiller, P.C.

20070186795 - Method for automated platemaking: A computer-to-plate (CTP) machine is operated using processless printing plates. A plate bender is built directly into the CTP, bending the plate after imaging in order to make it ready for mounting on the printing press, eliminating all intermediate steps. For presses requiring punched holes in addition to the bend... Agent: David A. Novais, Patent Legal Staff Eastman Kodak Company

20070181013 - Inking-pad printing system: A pad printing system includes a pad printing machine and an object positioning device. The object positioning device is a multiple positioning device by means of which an object support may be consecutively positioned at a print station each time.... Agent: Lowe, Hauptman, Gilman & Berner, LLP (itw)

20070181014 - Stamp: In a fixed print portion 100, a cylindrical holding member 125 holds a fixed print member 112 and an ink storage body 113 from the side of the ink storage body 113 and a frame member 120 having an L-shaped section is set from the side of the fixed print... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070181015 - Stencil printing machine: A stencil printing machine includes a rotatable drum having an outer circumferential wall formed by an ink impermeable member, a stencil clamping part for clamping a leading end of a stencil sheet, an ink supply unit having an ink supply opening for supplying a surface of the outer circumferential wall... Agent: Nath & Associates, PLLC

20070181016 - Printing machine: The machine comprises at least a transfer cylinder, an impression cylinder, a plate cylinder, a collector cylinder, and a delivery cylinder, each said impression cylinder, plate cylinder and collector cylinder comprising pits with, respectively, gripping means, clamping means and holding means for holding, respectively, at least one sheet, at least... Agent: Crompton, Seager & Tufte, LLC

20070181018 - Rotary element of a printing press, having an encoder and a synthesizer: A rotary element of a printing press is provided, in particular in a folding apparatus of the printing press, including an encoder for generating a first periodic signal in response to rotation of the rotary element, the encoder being linked to an evaluation unit which has at least one synthesizer... Agent: Davidson, Davidson & Kappel, LLC

20070181017 - Transport device for sleeve-shaped covers: A transport device for sleeve-shaped covers for cylinders in printing units of a printing press includes a translation element and a number of carrier elements for sleeve-shaped covers. The carrier elements are received on the translation element. A movement of the translation element causes at least a group of carrier... Agent: Davidson, Davidson & Kappel, LLC

20070181019 - Offset printing groups of a printing press for newspaper printing and a web-fed rotary printing press: An offset printing group is part of a printing machine which is used for printing newspapers. The offset printing group includes a printing cylinder and a transfer cylinder. The length of the transfer cylinder corresponds to at least six widths of newspaper pages. Two blankets are arranged adjacent each other... Agent: Douglas R Hanscom Jones Tullar & Cooper

20070181020 - Offset printing press with multi-image plate cylinder: An offset printing press includes a plate cylinder having a plate cylinder circumference and a blanket cylinder having a blanket cylinder circumference, the plate cylinder circumference being in a N:1 relationship with the blanket cylinder circumference, N being 2 or greater. The large plate circumference area permits for various components... Agent: Davidson, Davidson & Kappel, LLC

20070181021 - Printing group pertaining to a printing machine having a linearly displaceable transfer cylinder: A printing group of a printing machine is comprised of at least two cylinders, a forme cylinder and a transfer cylinder. The transfer cylinder can be moved between a print-on position and a print-off position along a linear adjustment path. Both of the cylinders in the printing group can be... Agent: Jones, Tullar & Cooper, P.C.

20070181022 - Apparatus and method for controlling the supply of fluid: An apparatus for controlling the amount of fluid to be transferred, contains a first rotating device which has a first fluid-transferring section in its circumferential direction, a second rotating device which has a second fluid-transferring section in its circumferential direction, and a control device for setting the phase position between... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20070181023 - Ink fountain for a printing machine: The invention concerns an ink fountain with a blade support wherein said blade support comprises several adjacent sections moveable by setting means to vary the distance between said sections and the circumference of an ink fountain cylinder. The ink fountain further comprises a blade interposed between said sections and the... Agent: Crompton, Seager & Tufte, LLC

20070181025 - Method for manufacturing a printing form and printing form with thermally insulating layer: Reusable printing forms and thermal image setting on the printing forms is optimized in terms of performance. A method for manufacturing the printing form, in particular a rewritable printing form, having a thermally insulating layer, is distinguished by the fact that the thermally insulating layer is produced by the configuration... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20070181024 - Plate making apparatus and regenerative printing plate management method as well as interstage sleeve: The invention relates to a print making apparatus and provides a technique which makes it possible to achieve a generally high processing speed without depending upon enhancement of the processing speed of individual processing apparatus. A number of stations (S1 to S4) at least equal to the number of steps... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20070181026 - Method for identifying a single panel comprising a printed image of defective quality on printed material comprising several panels: A method is used to identify a single panel or proof copy that has a printed image of defective quality on printed material that includes several such panels or proof copies. An image of at least part of the printed material is captured photographically. Data, that correlates with the captured... Agent: Douglas R Hanscom Jones Tullar & Cooper

20070181027 - Misregistration judging method, registration mark for color printing, color slippage detection mark, color slippage correction chart, color registration correction chart color slippage detection method color slippage correction: A misregistration judging method, registration mark for color printing, color slippage detection mark, color slippage correction chart, color registration correction chart, color slippage detection method color slippage correction method, and color image forming apparatus are provided. The color image forming apparatus prints registration marks for color printing respectively including marks... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLP

20070175343 - Off-axis illumination assembly and method: A stencil printer is provided for depositing solder paste onto a surface of an electronic substrate. The stencil printer includes a frame and a stencil coupled to the frame. The stencil has a plurality of apertures formed therein. The stencil printer further includes a dispenser coupled to the frame. The... Agent: Lowrie, Lando & Anastasi

20070175345 - Devices for mounting a cylinder, printing unit, and method for adjustment of a print on- position: A cylinder of a printing press is mounted using a bearing block. A radial bearing is movable in spaced linear bearings along an adjustment direction of the cylinder. The bearing is embodied as a modular bearing unit which may be a one piece assembly. The linear bearing is included in... Agent: Douglas R Hanscom Jones Tullar & Cooper

20070175344 - Quick disconnect motor mount: A quick disconnect motor mount for use with hand operated adjustment wheels, such as used in a printing press.... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

20070175346 - Reverse air flow web stabilizer: A web print unit includes a first plate cylinder, a first blanket cylinder for contacting the first plate cylinder, a second blanket cylinder, and a second plate cylinder for contacting the second blanket cylinder. A web to be printed passes between the first blanket cylinder and the second blanket cylinder... Agent: Davidson, Davidson & Kappel, LLC

20070175347 - Printing spacers on lcd substrates: A spacer ink printing apparatus for printing spacers on an LCD substrate includes a main body, a pressing roller and a spacer ink removing portion. The apparatus may further include a spacer ink guiding portion and/or a spacer ink spreading portion. The pressing roller is combined with the main body... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20070175348 - \"device,kit and method for cleaning rolls in printing machines\": Device for cleaning rolls in printing machines, specially machines for executing prints on web-shaped paper-like material destined to the production of tissue paper, napkins, toilet paper and the like, characterized by the fact that it comprises: a nozzle (1) apt to direct a steam jet toward the surface of a... Agent: Mcglew & Tuttle, PC

20070175349 - Letterpress printing machine: A letterpress printing machine is disclosed including a rotary printing cylinder in which a relief printing plate is installed, a substrate surface plate on which a substrate is placed, an ink supply device supplying ink on the relief printing plate, a relief printing plate washing equipment washing the surface of... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20070175350 - Fluted intermediate assembly formed in situ and having high resolution image that is used in consumer goods packaging: The present invention relates to an intermediate assembly that may be produced in situ and which finds uses in packaging applications. The assembly is formed from three substantially similar sheets of material, two of which may be printed with indicia that may include matching characteristics and the third sheet which... Agent: Ward/kraft, Inc.

20070175351 - Method for the detection of marks and printing machine: The object of the invention is to achieve a correctly positioned print in duplex-printing mode. A method for the detection of marks (1, 1′, 1″) by a sensor array (10) for a printing machine has been provided, whereby the marks (1) on the first (recto) printing side (5) of a... Agent: Patent Legal Staff