Printing inventions 12/07

20070295229 - Process for embossing a substrate material and substrate material: Process for creating embossed substrate materials such as metal foils, plastic films, papers and layered materials or laminates in a printing machine, as desired simultaneous to additional printing using ink. For the embossing of the substrate material a gravure roll as printing plate is provided in a printing station along... Agent: Fisher, Christen & Sabol

20070295230 - Method and devices for reducing vibration: Vibrations of a cylinder, which is a part of a web-processing machine, and particularly a printing machine, are dampened. A functional correlation is determined for a course of a force of a channel passage through a nip point defined by the cylinder and a second cylinder. The functional correlation is... Agent: Jones, Tullar & Cooper, P.C.

20070295231 - Apparatus and method for cleaning stencils employed in a screen printing apparatus: A stencil printing method and apparatus for printing paste material in a given pattern on a substrate from a paste dispenser through a stencil to define the stencil pattern on a substrate. The apparatus is provided with a cleaning module that can be moved against the printing face of the... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation Dept. 18g

20070289457 - Methods of forming images on an outer surface of a golf bag: Methods of forming images on an outer surface of a golf bag are provided. A method can include the step of obtaining a photographic-type image to be formed onto a substantially flat side outer surface portion of a golf bag having a main bag body including an open end, a... Agent: Jeffrey S. Whittle Bracewell & Patterson, L.L.P.

20070289458 - Printing machine: A printing machine includes a conveyor for at least one item to be printed, a print station and a transfer device including at least one bucket for conveying the item and an element for driving the conveyor bucket, which element is capable of displacing the conveyor bucket between a position... Agent: Young & Thompson

20070289459 - Wet trapping method: A method is disclosed, whereby low viscosity flexograhic printing inks used in implementing wet trapping of sequentially applied ink layers are partially cured to increase the first applied layer viscosity sufficiently to wet trap a subsequently applied superposed ink layer.... Agent: Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP Intellectual Property Department

20070289460 - Single pass plastic card manufacturing system: A system and method is provided for creating a fully formed printed card with a magnetically encoded strip in a continuous, single pass fashion. In one embodiment, a printing system includes a web flexographic press and an automated strip applicator and encoder. The web flexographic press receives a roll of... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20070289461 - Printing machine having at least one printing unit for imprinting a web of material to be imprinted by offset printing in a variable cut length and a folder: A printing machine has at least one printing unit on which a web of material, which is to be imprinted, is imprinted by offset printing in a variable cut length. A folder is mounted downstream, in the direction of travel of the printed web, of the at least one printing... Agent: Douglas R. Hanscom Jones, Tullar & Cooper

20070289462 - Turner assembly for a web-fed rotary press: A turner assembly for a web-fed rotary press includes a plurality of turner bars, wherein at least one web of a web-like printed material is introduced into the turner assembly in an entry direction. Slitters arranged upstream of the turner bars in the entry direction of the printed material cut... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane

20070289463 - Sheet-fed printing press: A sheet-fed printing press comprises: a screen printing unit for printing one surface of a sheet being transported; a drying unit, provided downstream of the screen printing unit in a transport direction, for drying the screen-printed one surface of the sheet; a gravure printing unit, provided downstream of the drying... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070289464 - Ink recovery system: A system to remove most or substantially all of the residual ink from an ink chamber prior to post print washing, said ink chamber comprising an ink chamber profile provided with a space for ink, at least one inlet and at least one outlet, and with upper and lower doctor... Agent: Woodard, Emhardt, Moriarty, Mcnett & Henry LLP

20070289465 - Method and device for controlling a processing machine for a sheet-like material: The invention relates to a method and a device for controlling a processing machine for sheet-like material having at least one cylinder that can be driven individually and that carries a printing form. The method involves, inter alia, eliminating the pressurized printing contact between the plate cylinder 10 and adjacent... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20070289466 - Web-fed rotary press and method for operating it: A web-fed press includes at least two printing units and at least one drier for drying at least one printing-material web which is moved through the at least two printing units and printed on at least one side with at least one offset printing ink at each of the printing... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane

20070289467 - Direct printing lithography system and method: A direct printing lithography system for jet-printing a photoresist on a layer in the form of a desired circuit pattern is disclosed. The system includes a computer system for containing a programmed circuit pattern and generating printing signals and a jet printing head for receiving the printing signals from the... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley LLP

20070289468 - On-press imaging lithographic printing press and method: A lithographic printing press having a plate cylinder in a light-tight compartment suitable for on-press imaging and developing a violet or ultraviolet laser sensitive plate is described. The plate cylinder as well as certain other press parts is covered by non-transparent or safe-light-only covers so that no or substantially no... Agent: Gary Ganghui Teng

20070289469 - Sleeve-like cover with a slit for a cylinder in a press: A sleeve-like cover for a cylinder in a press for holding a plate-like printing form, having a slit which runs substantially parallel to the axis of rotation of the cover, it being possible for edges of a printing form to be fixed in the slit by means of at least... Agent: Davidson, Davidson & Kappel, LLC

20070283824 - Steel intaglio printing method for producing a security document and steel intaglio printing plate and semifinished products therefor and method for production thereof: A method for producing a security document having printed image 1 produced by steel intaglio printing and embossed microstructures 2 of an order of magnitude of less than 100 microns is carried out by one printing plate 8 on which both the steel intaglio structures and the microstructures are present.... Agent: Rothwell, Figg, Ernst & Manbeck, P.C.

20070283825 - Roller drive end and method for mounting the same: This invention relates to a drive end of a roller for producing and/or treating a material web, in particular a paper web or paperboard web, the drive end including a hollow-cylinder-shaped roller casing and a drive journal which is connected to the roller casing in order to drive said casing.... Agent: Taylor & Aust, P.C.

20070283826 - Synchronous flexographic printing press with fluid distribution and control system: In a synchronous flexographic press having plural operational modes either processing or cleaning fluid is continuously pumped from a selected one of a plurality of reservoirs onto a pre-doctor blade forming a pre-doctoring nip with and terminating in inwardly spaced relation to opposite ends of an anilox roll metering surface.... Agent: Mccormick, Paulding & Huber LLP

20070283827 - Method for determining operating parameters of a printing press: A printing press, in particular a sheet-fed offset printing press, includes at least one control device, a plurality of printing units, one or more varnishing units, and one or more dryers. Variables determining a dryness of the printing material are determined and used to optimize the drying process. For that... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20070283828 - Split drum platesetter for imaging printing plate: An external drum platesetter, including: two or more drums aligned along a same rotational axis for supporting one or more printing plates; one or more rails positioned parallel to the rotational axis of the drums; a single imaging head mounted on and moveable along the one or more rails, where... Agent: Agfa Corporation Patent Department

20070283830 - Method for controlling an inking unit of a printing press: A method for controlling an inking unit of a printing press, in particular a sheet-processing offset printing press, having at least one ink metering element and a control unit, includes changing over the ink metering element from a first ink amount metering to a second ink amount metering for a... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20070283829 - Method and apparatus for collecting operating data from machines used in the printing industry: A method and apparatus for collecting operating data from machines used in the printing industry, in particular from printing presses, is disclosed. At least one machine linked to a control device, or an operating data collection device, automatically transmits data during operation of the machine to the control device, or... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070283831 - Method and apparatus for registration of an imaged lithographic plate: The method and apparatus for registration of a lithographic plate includes a means for ensuring that the plate is in contact with registration pins on imaging and bending devices and a means for finely adjusting an initial position of the plate with respect to registration pins on the bender to... Agent: Gray, Plant, Mooty, Mooty & Bennett, P.A.

20070283832 - Imprint circuit patterning: An imprint circuit patterning technique that shrinks the minimum feature dimension of circuit features formed on plastic substrates is provided. The imprint circuit patterning technique may be applied to the fabrication of LCDs, particularly LCDs including integral touch sensing. Substrates having patterned substantially transparent electrodes for use with such touch-sensing... Agent: Wong, Cabello, Lutsch, Rutherford & Brucculeri LLP

20070277685 - Process for printing features with smaller dimensions: The invention relates generally to a printing process. In particular, the invention relates to a printing process where a first-printed feature or vanishing trace causes a second-printed feature to have a smaller dimension than it would in the absence of the first-printed feature or vanishing trace.... Agent: Jaimes Sher, Esq. Cabot Corporation

20070277686 - Method for four-color printing and dyeing: The invention is involved in a method for four-color printing and dyeing in textiles industry. The process comprises the processes of engraving and printing & dyeing. The process of engraving includes separating the color picture into four primary colors (Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Black). Four data files are generated in... Agent: Yungping Chiang

20070277687 - Printing ink units of a printing machine and printing mechanism with a pump inking unit: A pump inking unit of a printing machine is usable to dose a predetermined amount of ink onto axially adjacent areas of a peripheral surface of a roller, by the provision of a discharge opening, with the aid of several dosing pumps. These several dosing pumps are arranged adjacent each... Agent: Douglas R. Hanscom Jones Tullar & Cooper

20070277688 - Printing couple of a printing unit of a printing press: A printing couple of a printing unit for a web-fed rotary press includes a transfer cylinder, a form cylinder, and an inking couple having at least one roller. The transfer cylinder is coupled to the form cylinder, and the form cylinder is coupled to at least one roller of the... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane

20070277689 - Highly versatile multiconfiguration printing assembly: A multiconfiguration printing assembly comprising a first inking assembly for a first type of printing, a second inking assembly for a second type of printing, a printing roller related to the first type of printing and a printing roller related to the second type of printing, a single contrast roller... Agent: Modiano & Associati

20070277690 - Perfluorinated polyether release agent for phase change ink members: wherein R1 is CF3; R2 is selected from the group consisting of CF2 and CF—CF3; m is a number of 0 or 1; n is a number of from about 0 to about 500; p is a number of from about 0 to about 100; q is a number of... Agent: Patent Documentation Center

20070277691 - Blanket size verification using drive torque feedback: A device is provided for determining incorrectly sized or manufactured blankets includes a first blanket on a first blanket cylinder independently driven by a first motor, a first controller for determining torque values of the first motor, a second blanket on a second blanket cylinder independently driven by a second... Agent: Davidson, Davidson & Kappel, LLC

20070277692 - Printing state automatic switching apparatus and method: A printing state automatic switching apparatus includes a printing state switching unit, abnormal end detection unit, and error recovery unit. The printing state switching unit automatically switches the printing state of a printing press from a first printing state to a second printing state through a plurality of switching steps.... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070277693 - Printing or copying system for processing single sheets and method for controlling such a printing or copying system: The method or system for controlling a printing or copying system for processing single sheets, a first single sheet and at least a second single sheet immediately following the first single sheet is processed with aid of n processing units. A required minimum distance between the first and the second... Agent: Schiff Hardin, LLP Patent Department