Printing inventions 01/08

20080022866 - Sheet punching and embossing machine with register orienting and method for operating a sheet punching and embossing machine: A sheet punching and embossing machine includes a sheet feeder unit, a punching station, at least one additional processing station, a machine control system and a sheet transport system which has circulating gripper carts. Grippers are fastened on the gripper carts by which the sheets can be grabbed at a... Agent: Heidelberger Drucksmaschinen Aktiengeselischaft C/o Keating & Bennett, LLP

20080022867 - Method to print multicolor images on edible pieces: Multicolor image, formed from at least two component images, are printed on non-planar surfaces of edible pieces by maintaining registration of the pieces from one printing station to another. The registration is maintained by firmly securing the pieces to the transporting surface by applying a pressure differential, by a combination... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080022868 - Device and method for tensioning a screen on a screen printing frame: The present invention relates to a screen for screen printing. More particularly, structure of the screen can have different types of mesh or sheets joined together. The present invention also relates to a method of detachably spreading a screen to a screen frame.... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.

20080022869 - Appartus and method for printing screen: An apparatus is provided comprising a printing screen frame, a first sheet attached to the printing screen frame, an alignment frame, and an alignment device. The alignment device may have a first means for registering the printing screen frame and the first sheet in a first position and a first... Agent: Walter J. Tencza Jr.

20080022870 - Flexo printing screen roller and flexography: A flexo printing screen roller having a surface, which has cells which can be filled with ink or paint, is disclosed. The cells have different depths in order to apply ink or paint of varying thickness to a flexo printing form and thus ultimately to a substrate to be printed.... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20080022871 - Foil transfer unit having a material application device: An apparatus, a method and a transfer foil for transferring a transfer layer onto a printing material in a transfer unit. In order to avoid the adhesion, and simultaneously retain the flexibility of the transfer cylinder, it is proposed that the transfer unit has at least one material application device... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20080022872 - Apparatus for perforating printed or embossed substrates: An apparatus for registering lines of termination with indicia in a transported sheet of web material is disclosed. The apparatus comprises a print cylinder and a perforation cylinder. The print cylinder has a position determining system cooperatively associated thereto. The perforation cylinder is in registration relative to the print cylinder... Agent: The Procter & Gamble Company Intellectual Property Division - West Bldg.

20080022873 - Sheet bundle printing system and sheet bundle printer: In a sheet bundle printing system, a sheet is fed by peeling an uppermost sheet from a sheet bundle. A printing device has a printing head and a platen roller for printing on the sheet. An ink ribbon is fed through space between the printing head and the platen roller... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20080022874 - Print roll with ink reservoir and print media roll sections: A print roll includes an ink reservoir section. The ink reservoir section includes a plurality of bladder type containers for storing respective types of ink. A pair of print media roll sections is provided for carrying a wound length of print media. The print media roll sections can be fastened... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20080022875 - Sheet-fed printing press: A sheet-fed printing press includes a printing section for printing on sheets of paper fed from a sheet feeding section, and a surface treating section for treating surfaces of the sheets of paper by pressing transfer films respectively onto the sheets of paper printed at the printing section. The surface... Agent: Technology & Intellectual Property Strategies Group PC (dba Tips Group)

20080022876 - Printing press: A new-plate holding unit holds a surface of a new plate in a width direction on a new-plate insertion path. A movement constraining unit constrains the new-plate holding unit to move in a direction of inserting the new plate, with a margin in the width direction of the new plate.... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20080022877 - Coupling system and method for a printing press: A printing press coupling system and method for connecting supply lines to a printing press module, specifically to a printing couple or a dampening unit, of a printing press, is disclosed. The coupling system includes a coupling element on a printing press side and a coupling element on a supply... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20080022878 - Methods for applying decorative images on trash receptacle liners: The objective of the invention is to provide a new and improved appearance and claimed multiple methods for applying image applications to a trash receptacle liner, such as lettering, borders, images, scenes and shapes, employing various method image application procedures as herein claimed. The new decorative trash receptacle liner provides... Agent: Gary T. Petler

20080017053 - Screen printing plate: A screen printing plate includes a discharging area from which printing liquid is discharged and a non-discharging area from which no printing liquid is discharged. With the screen printing plate, a squeegee is slid to discharge the printing liquid so as to perform printing. The non-discharging area is of a... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080017054 - Plate-making apparatus for stencil printing and stencil printing machine: A plate-making apparatus for stencil printing includes a plate feed section which feeds the heat-sensitive stencil plate that is an extended thermoplastic resin film with a predetermined thickness, and a heater to form ink-permeable openings in the film by heating the film, in which an opposite side surface to the... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20080017055 - Method and apparatus for exchanging substrate processing technologies: A substrate processing press including a first dock assembly configured to readily receive, readily retain and readily release a first exchangeable substrate processing element while the first dock assembly is attached to the press. The press includes a second dock assembly adjacent to the first dock assembly configured to readily... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080017057 - Sheet-fed offset printing press and method of printing multiple colors on both sides of sheets: A sheet-fed offset printing press for printing multiple colors on both sides of sheets, preferably on sheets of paper, includes a first row of in-line printing units for printing a first side of the sheet, followed by a reversing device, followed by a second row of in-line printing units for... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20080017056 - Sheet-fed offset printing press and method of two-sided multi-color printing: A sheet-fed offset printing press prints multiple colors on both sides of sheets, preferably on sheets of paper. A first row of in-line printing units print a first side of the sheet, before the sheets are turned in a reversing device, which is followed by a second row of in-line... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20080017058 - Exchangeable cylinder type rotary press: To this end, the peripheral length of each of the rotary cylinders 34-36 in the exchange cylinder unit 28 is set at a length according to a top-bottom length of a print to be made, a profile-shifted gear is used as at least one of driven gears 37-39 which are... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane

20080017059 - Printing press fountain supply and turbo dampener cleaning: Commercial newspaper printing presses utilize an improved water or fountain solution supply apparatus to spray the solution onto dampening rollers. In the improvement a closed to the air fountain solution supply apparatus keeps the solution free of contaminants. A built-in turbo dampening roller cleaner eliminates the need to dismantle the... Agent: James N Videbeck

20080017060 - Method of transferring processing parameters and method of processing sheet-shaped copies of a print medium: A method of transferring processing parameters of a print medium includes the steps of reading values of processing parameters from a portable data carrier into a control unit of the processing machine or from a control unit of the processing machine into a portable data carrier and causing the portable... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20080017061 - Systems for tempering components of a printing machine: A system is provided for tempering, or controlling the temperature of a printing machine to maintain a desired temperature by the use of a cooling device. The cooling device prepares, on a first output, a tempering medium having at least one first desired temperature level, for a first supply current... Agent: Jones, Tullar & Cooper, P.C.

20080017062 - Image responsive pivoting pressure roll: According to an aspect of the present disclosure; a method of processing a substrate media having an image injected thereon is provided and includes the step of passing the substrate media through a nip defined between a heated fuser drum and a pressure roll. A fixer subsystem, for use in... Agent: George Likourezos, Esq. Carter, Deluca, Farrell & Schmidt, LLP

20080011168 - Printing apparatus and printing method for the same: Horizontal joint portions of abutting building boards are constructed in a manner to look straight-line in an external appearance when constructed even in a case that the building board has a dimension error. A printing apparatus for printing a building board of a shiplap joint system composed of a design... Agent: Kratz, Quintos & Hanson, LLP

20080011169 - Folding device with folding apparatus arranged at different heights: A folding device in or for a printing machine, said folding device comprising: a) an upper folding apparatus comprising an upper transverse cutting means for transversely cutting a first printed product web into printed products and an upper folding cylinder for transversely folding the printed products; b) and a lower... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20080011170 - Printing device, patterning method using the same, and method of fabricating a liquid crystal display device using the same: A printing device, a patterning method using the same and a method of fabricating an LCD device using the same are disclosed. The printing device includes a printing roll having a blanket adhered to an outer surface thereof; and an absorption nozzle to absorb solvent from the blanket. The absorption... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20080011171 - Method and device for adjustment of the transfer of printing ink and a method for application of said device: An adjustment of a transfer of printing ink is accomplished by arranging a first roller in an inker unit and by using that first roller to transfer ink to a forme cylinder. A temperature is adjusted on an outer surface of the first roller by the use of a first... Agent: Douglas R Hanscom Jones Tullar & Cooper

20080011172 - Ink transport route switching method and apparatus in inking device of printing press: An ink transport route switching apparatus in an inking device of a printing press, the inking device being arranged to supply ink to a printing plate via an ink transport route composed of a plurality of ink rollers, and equipped with an ink distribution roller which moves to a first... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080011173 - Printing member provided with identification means defined by or connectable to updateable means for recording data relative to the member and useful for its utilization: A printing member such as a printing cylinder includes an at least partly metal cylinder, or a sleeve to be mounted on a mandrel rotating about its axis. The printing member comprises a body having a thickness. With the printing member there is associated an activatable signaling device that is... Agent: Dority & Manning, P.A.

20080011174 - Printing plate material, manufacturing method of the same, and plate-making method using the same: A printing plate material for direct plate-making includes a PET film base material; a protective layer and a photocatalytic hydrophilic layer provided on the base material; and a dot control layer provided on the hydrophilic layer and having a critical surface tension equal to or lower than a surface tension... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080011175 - Method of producing an element for contacting printing material, element for contacting printing material and machine for processing printing material: A method of producing an element for contacting printing material, such as an impression cylinder jacket, includes generating a micro-structured surface on a carrier, preferably on an aluminum plate, by electrolytic oxidizing, i.e. anodizing aluminum, and coating the micro-structured surface by a sol-gel process. An element for contacting printing material... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20080011176 - Method for dosing the quantity of ink in the inking system of a printing machine: A quantity of ink is dosed in an inking system of a printing machine, which inking system is provided with at least one dosing device that can be used to modify the quantity of ink which is transferred by the inking system. The dosing device can be adjusted by the... Agent: Douglas R. Hanscom Jones, Tullar & Cooper

20080011177 - Method of printing curved surface and curved surface body printed by using same: A curved surface printing method comprises a step of applying a printing ink to a raised portion of a letterpress printing original plate which is a planographic plate the raised portion of which is 0.1 to 50 μm high, a step in which an elastic blanket (2) of rubber or... Agent: Ladas & Parry

20080006161 - Method of fabricating a structure: A method of fabricating a bank structure, includes: (a) forming a multi-layer structure on an underlying surface thereof, the multi-layer structure having at least a first layer and a second layer, (b) embossing the second layer so as to define a bank pattern in the second layer, (c) transferring the... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080006162 - Method and apparatus for clamping a substrate: A stencil printer for printing viscous material on a substrate includes a frame, a stencil coupled to the frame, and a print head, coupled for the frame, to deposit and print viscous material over the stencil. The stencil printer further includes a substrate support to support a substrate in a... Agent: Lowrie, Lando & Anastasi

20080006164 - Offset rotary printing machine and method of adjusting angle of printing cylinders: An offset rotary printing machine which includes a first printing cylinder and a second printing cylinder in which printing is performed on a web at a nip between the pair of printing cylinders, the second printing cylinder contacting the first printing cylinder and being shifted downstream from the first printing... Agent: Kanesaka Berner And Partners LLP

20080006163 - Method for controlling the orientation and/or position of sheets processed on a printing machine: There is described a method for controlling the orientation and/or position of sheets (1) processed on a printing machine, each sheet being provided with at least one marking (12; 15) embedded in the sheet, which marking is embedded in the sheet during manufacturing thereof, prior to processing of the sheet... Agent: Crompton, Seager & Tufte, LLC

20080006165 - Printer with ink transfer roller and cleaning station: A printer has a chassis with a pair of guide rails. A retractable print media tray assembly is arranged on the guide rails in a displaceable manner. At least one print engine is arranged on the chassis and has an ink ejecting printhead assembly configured to eject ink onto an... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20080006166 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus is disclosed. The image forming apparatus includes an apparatus main body, a first unit to be attached inside the apparatus main body, a rotatable part attached to the apparatus main body and rotatable between an open position for opening the apparatus main body and a closed... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C