Printing inventions 10/07

20070245909 - Composite stamper for imprint lithography: A stamper having a patterned layer composed of a hard material and a compressible material back plane layer. The back plane layer may be composed of an elastomer. The stamper may be used to imprint an embossable layer disposed above a substrate for the production of a magnetic recording disk.... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070245910 - Golf ball holder for holding a golf ball while drawing a circle on the golf ball: A golf ball holder is adapted to hold a golf ball while drawing a circle on the golf ball using a pen, and includes a supporting plate adapted to support the golf ball thereon, and an annular surrounding unit disposed on the supporting plate. The surrounding unit is adapted to... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070245911 - Drive for a rotary printing press: A drive for a rotary printing press has a clutch with improved reliability in the main drive gear train. The drive has a gearwheel mechanism for transmitting a rotational movement of transfer drums during delivery of a printing material. The gearwheel mechanism includes a gearwheel pair with a driving gearwheel... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20070245912 - Printing unit of a reel-fed press: A printing unit of a rotary printing press with a transfer cylinder and a form cylinder interacting with the transfer cylinder is disclosed. The body length of the transfer cylinder and the form cylinder corresponds to six horizontal or upright print pages and the transfer cylinder has two channels offset... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070245913 - Printer: A printer according to the present invention includes a sheet holder, a feed/print mechanism, an RFID reader/writer, and a flexible member including electrically conductive metal. The sheet holder holds a sheet of label paper wound into a roll. The sheet of label paper includes a mount and RFID labels stuck... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20070245914 - Method for printing printed material, which is individualized with logistic print-image elements: The invention relates to a method for printing printed material which is individualized with logistical printed image elements, wherein at least one printed image, particularly a static printed image, which is printed in a printing machine, is individualized by technically adding at least one dynamic logistical printed image element. According... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane

20070245915 - Printing plate and method of manufacturing liquid crystal display device using the same: A printing plate comprises a plurality of protrusions onto which a pattern material is transcribed, and a plurality of embossing patterns disposed on the protrusions.... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070245916 - Corrugated sheet fed printing process with uv curable inks: A flexographic printing system for printing flat corrugated sheets using radiation curable inks. An ultraviolet curing unit is positioned after each of the printing stations. The ink applied at each station is partially cured before a different color ink is applied at the next printing station.... Agent: Kinney & Lange, P.A.

20070245917 - Web detection device of printing press: Provided is a web detection device of a printing press capable of promptly detecting paper breakage, the web detection device being provided with: a printing unit which prints on a web being transported; a dryer, which is provided on the downstream side in the web transporting direction of the printing... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070240585 - Embossing system, methods of use, and articles produced therefrom: Disclosed herein is an embossing system, methods for its use, and articles produced therefrom. In one embodiment, the embossing system comprises: an embossing apparatus, a coating zone, and a curing zone. The embossing apparatus is capable of producing an embossed film. The coating zone is capable of disposing a coating... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20070240586 - Embossing or bonding device containing facetted impression elements: Facetted impression elements are disclosed. The impression elements can be located, for instance, on an anvil roll and may be used during an embossing or bonding process. The impression elements include at least two chamfered surfaces that at least partially surround the top surface. The chamfered surfaces are at an... Agent: Dority & Manning, P.A.

20070240587 - Conductor identification system: A fiber optics/electrical conductors identification system including a printer adapted to receive generically colored (non-colored) heat shrink tubing and include printing capabilities for printing selective color indicia and/or selective alphanumeric indicia and/or bar code symbology and/or the like onto the tubing. A controller may be coupled to the printer to... Agent: Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, P.C.

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20070240589 - Rotary screen printing machine: A carousel screen printing machine which includes a stationary column supporting a plurality of print heads; a rotatable carousel mounted on said column supporting a plurality of pallet support arms and drive means located at or above said carousel for indexed movement of said carousel about said stationary column. Indexation... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz LLP Suite 800

20070240590 - Method for applying a film: A more versatile film transferring device for transferring image-forming layers from a transfer foil to printing sheets is provided. The device includes a coating device for applying a colored adhesive pattern.... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20070240591 - Machine with temperature monitoring of a roller: The temperature of a machine, which includes a rotating cylinder, and at least one roller that rotates with the cylinder, is maintained. The rotating cylinder carries a plate. The machine is provided with at least one temperature sensor for detecting the temperature of the roller.... Agent: Douglas R. Hanscom Jones, Tullar & Cooper

20070240592 - Inkjet printing system for an offset: To make it possible for a printing press that operates by the offset printing principle to add additional information, including variable information and information that repeatedly changes during a printing run, to any desired place within the printed product, an add-on unit in the form of an inkjet printing system... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane

20070240593 - Process and device for printing a substrate: The invention relates to a method and device for printing a fabric. The printable fabric (11) is moved through at least one printing mechanism (10) in order to print a static or non-variable printing image. According to the invention, the printable fabric (11) is moved through at least one printing... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane

20070240594 - Driving apparatus and image forming device having the same: A driving apparatus includes a driving gear bidirectionally rotatable by a driving source, at least two driven gears selectively driven by the driving gear, at least two swing gears connected to the driving gear to operate in combination with the driving gear and to transmit a driving force of the... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20070240595 - Method and apparatus for metering printing fluid, printing press and system having the apparatus and method for driving a pump: A method and an apparatus for metering a printing fluid include a pump driven by the printing fluid. The printing fluid can be printing ink or varnish. A printing press and a system having the apparatus as well as a method for driving a pump, are also provided.... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20070240596 - Color filter and method for manufacturing same: A color filter (100) includes a substrate, a black matrix formed on the substrate, and a plurality of color stripes. The black matrix defines a plurality of spaces therein, and the black matrix includes carbon black in a proportion by weight from 5% to 55%, polymer in a proportion by... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20070240597 - Inspection of a printing cylinder: The disclosure relates generally to the field of printing. More specifically, the disclosure relates to an inspecting process for a printing cylinder.... Agent: Eitan Law Group C/o LandonIPInc.

20070234909 - Decorator temperature control system: A decorator temperature control system includes a recirculation loop configured to recirculate a solution and a feeder line configured to receive the solution from the recirculation loop and deliver the solution to at least one ink roller on a decorator. A feed valve is located between the recirculation loop and... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20070234910 - Screen printing system and method: Screen printing systems and methods are disclosed which enables a user to employ the screen printing process to decorate a non-traditional surface. The screen printing method includes the step of laying out a first screen on a surface. The first screen is imprinted with a first design. The method further... Agent: Benesch, Friedlander, Coplan & Aronoff LLP Attn:IPDepartment Docket Clerk

20070234911 - Printing units on a web-fed rotary printing press: A web-fed rotary printing press is structured having two end-surface defining side frames. At least one printing unit, with at least two cooperating printing unit cylinders, is supported between these side frames. At least one of the at least two cooperating cylinders is pre-assembled as a cylinder unit that has... Agent: Douglas R. Hanscom Jones, Tullar & Cooper, P.C.

20070234912 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus is disclosed, that includes multiple imaging units, a loading unit formed on the top face of the main body of the image forming apparatus, and a discharging unit disposed at the operation side of the main body. The image forming apparatus further includes multiple developer containing... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070234913 - Drive for a rotary printing press: A drive for a rotary printing press makes a reliable transmission of high torques possible and, with low structural expenditure, setting of the phase in the main drive gear train. In the drive for a rotary printing press, two adjacent transfer drums are mounted with shaft journals in side walls,... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20070234914 - Tubular decorating arrangement: Tubular decorating arrangement comprises a transferring device arranged for transferring a decorative pattern to objects and provided with an operating surface suitable for interacting with said objects, said tubular decorating arrangement comprising at least one tubular portion on which said operating surface is obtained, said at least one tubular portion... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070234915 - Rotating body of a web-fed press: A rotating body of a web-fed press, in which one or more hot spots develop in at least one sector of at least one of two or more rotating bodies due to the rolling of the two or more rotating bodies on one another. The rotating body has at least... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane

20070234916 - Guide element for guiding a cleaning apparatus of a printing press: A guide element for guiding a cleaning apparatus of a printing press contains a diverter which is configured such that it can be switched by the cleaning apparatus. The guide element can be operated manually and is therefore comparatively uncomplicated. An adjusting drive for the diverter is not present, as... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20070234917 - Repeat builder with replaceable outer surface for printing press: A dual use repeat builder assembly comprising a multiply inner sleeve with a bond layer surrounding its outer diameter for securing a compressible foam layer to the outer surface of the inner sleeve. A hard foam core is formed around the compressible foam layer using a mold cavity. After curing,... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz, LLP

20070234918 - System and method for making printed electronic circuits using electrophotography: A method and system are provided for printing an electronic device onto a substrate using electrophotography (EP). The method includes generally three steps. First, a surface is provided, such as a substrate (e.g., paper, plastic film, etc.) on which the electronic device is to be printed. Second, the surface is... Agent: Weyerhaeuser Company Intellectual Property Dept., Ch 1j27

20070234919 - Method and dvice for combined printing: The invention relates to a method and to a device for the production of printed products which are printed according to various methods. The invention also relates to a method for the production of printed products by combining various immediately successive processing steps, in order to provide a printing method... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070227372 - Printing apparatus and printing method: A printing apparatus includes a feed-out unit for feeding out an elongated base material which is wound up in a roll, a printing unit for printing a liquid resist onto the elongated base material that is fed out of the feed-out unit, a wind-up unit for winding up the elongated... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20070227374 - Apparatus for the application of a film of dampening solution in printing units of rotary presses: An apparatus for the application of a film of dampening solution in printing units of rotary presses has a hollow dampening solution roll with a porous roll wall. The roll cavity is filled with a liquid under pressure. A membrane is disposed on the inside of the porous roll wall.... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20070227373 - Spray dampening valve having mechanical accuracy and long-term stability for use in an offset printing process: An embodiment may have a stationary valve seat having a predefined surface and having at least one protruding portion, and a moveable plunger assembly having an end surface and having a plunger seal. In a closed position the predefined surface of the stationary valve seat substantially contacts the end surface... Agent: Patti, Hewitt & Arezina LLC

20070227375 - Anilox printing unit: An anilox printing unit contains an engraved roller, an ink applicator roller, a first cylinder and a second cylinder as elements. At least one of the elements is a cambered or quasi-cambered element. The ink applicator roller is preferably the element. Such a configuration of the element ensures a high... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20070227376 - Printing press and method for operating the same: A printing press includes an anilox inking unit with an engraved roller and a doctor-type ink fountain. At least one stirring element projects into the doctor-type ink fountain.... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20070227377 - Ink control apparatus, printer, and printing method: An image is created from PPF data and the image is displayed. An operator selects one or more areas from the displayed image in which color adjustment is to be performed. An arithmetic unit adjusts a quantity of each ink component to be supplied to the areas selected by the... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Berner, LLP

20070227378 - Ink control apparatus, printer, and printing method: An image is created from PPF data and the image is displayed. An operator inputs a total amount of color adjustment as a pre-set value from a color-adjustment-quantity operation screen. An arithmetic unit adjusts a quantity of each ink component to be supplied to the areas based on the pre-set... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Berner, LLP

20070227379 - Plate for magnet cylinder: A plate for a magnet cylinder includes a main body, a nonmagnetic portion, and a magnetic piece. The main body is formed of a flexible thin plate-like magnetic material to be magnetically mounted on the outer surface of a magnet cylinder. The nonmagnetic portion is projected from one end of... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070227380 - Image recording apparatus: To record images accurately regardless of rigidity and size of a recording medium, each rear end clamp has a clamp rubber element for engaging a variable margin of the recording medium mounted peripherally of the recording drum. The margin is varied according to the rigidity of the recording medium. The... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070227381 - Method for applying powder to a printed sheet and printing press for carrying out the method: A method for applying powder to a printed sheet includes ejecting air flows from a nozzle bar. The air flows are set in such a way that the air flows which are ejected per meter length of the nozzle bar produce a resultant force acting on the printed sheet of... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20070227382 - Web printer incorporating a drying module: A wallpaper printer includes a support frame. A cabinet assembly is mounted on the support frame. A drying module is operatively mountable with respect to the support frame and defines a first chamber and a second drying chamber. A heating element is positioned within the first chamber. At least one... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070227383 - Soft lithographic stamp with a chemically patterned surface: The present invention provides a soft lithographic stamp (30) and a method for the manufacturing of such a stamp (30). A stamp (30) according to the present invention comprises blocking regions (37) and printing regions (38). The blocking regions (37) are formed of a material which is different from the... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070227384 - Imaging and punching thermal control system: An imaging and punching thermal control system and related method for a plate imaging system including a thermal sensor system coupled to the imaging and the punching device that generates one or more measured signals; a controller that generates a digital format of the one or more measured signals and... Agent: Mark G. Bocchetti Patent Legal Staff

20070227385 - Punching debris extraction system: An extraction system for extracting debris from an imaging and perforating system contained in a housing proximate the punching system that produces debris during the formation of one or more perforations. The extraction system conveying the debris from the interior of the housing to the exterior including a conduit arranged... Agent: Mark G. Bocchetti Patent Legal Staff

20070227387 - Plate feeding apparatus: A plate feeding apparatus includes a multi-cassette unit for storing, in a stacked state, a plurality of cassettes storing plates, a loader unit for fetching from each cassette plates to be fed to an image recorder, and a plate feed unit disposed above the multi-cassette unit to be tiltable about... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070227386 - Plate processing system and method: Printing plate processing systems and methods are provided. One of the methods comprises positioning a plurality of printing plates on an imaging support surface; forming an image on each printing plate at a location that is separated by a main scanning axis separation from an alignment edge that is perpendicular... Agent: Mark G. Bocchetti Patent Legal Staff

20070227388 - Tetrakisazo compound, coloring matter for recording, ink composition and colored article: (wherein A and D independently represent an optionally substituted phenyl group or naphthyl group, respectively, and m and n represent 1 or 2, respectively), and the coloring matter for recording and an ink comprising the same. Said compound exhibits high solubility in a medium containing water as a main component,... Agent: Nields & Lemack

20070227389 - Method for color measurement in printing presses: A color measurement on printed materials produced by a printing press is performed by at least a first color measuring device installed in the printing press and at least a second color measuring device. A signal is output by the first color measuring device in the printing press when the... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP