Printing inventions 03/08

20080072775 - Print and platen equalizer: A multi-station screen printing apparatus includes a base member; a plurality of platens, each for supporting a substrate to be printed, the platens mounted radially in a rotatable manner about the base member; and a plurality of print heads mounted radially and non-rotatably about the base member above the platens.... Agent: Husch & Eppenberger, LLC

20080072776 - Home positon storage unit and home position storage method for use with printing press: A home position sensor, which constitutes a portion of a home position storage unit, stores a home position by means of previously detecting the position of a printing cylinder cam. Accordingly, a printing cylinder comes to a stop at a plate replacement position at the time of replacement of a... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath (dc)

20080072777 - Rotary press: An object is to provide a rotary press that copes with a variation in the positions of printing cylinders and that includes a safety device having a simple structure. The rotary press has a cut-off length of a web (11) that is variable by changing diameters of a plate cylinder... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.

20080072778 - Ink control apparatus, printer, and printing method: An image is created from PPF data and the image is displayed. An operator inputs a pre-set value of color adjustment from a color-adjustment-quantity operation screen. The color-adjustment-quantity operation screen includes a print display unit that displays a print color in a print measured by a calorimeter, a color-sample display... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20080072779 - Protecting/packaging material for lithographic printing plate and method for packaging lithographic printing plate: It is an object of the present invention to provide a protecting/packaging material for a lithographic printing plate capable of preventing the toning of the lithographic printing plate and a method for packaging the lithographic printing plate. In a protecting/packaging material for protecting and/or packaging a lithographic printing plate, a... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080072780 - Lithographic printing plate precursor and method for preparation thereof: A lithographic printing plate precursor includes: a support; an image-recording layer capable of being removed with water or an aqueous component; and an overcoat layer, in this order, wherein the overcoat layer is formed by drying a water-dispersible polymer particle, or includes: a support; an image-recording layer which is capable... Agent: Sughrue-265550

20080066632 - Device for cutting and/or embossing a pre-cut blank or a material web: A device for cutting and/or embossing a sheet, a pre-cut blank, or a material web has a cutting and/or embossing roller having a longitudinal axis, which is mounted, at its two ends, in at least one bearing so as to rotate, a counter-roller that works together with the embossing roller... Agent: William Collard Collard & Roe, P.C.

20080066633 - Freight loading system of trailer: Disclosed herein is a printer for golf balls which can print various images on the surfaces of golf balls. The printer of the present invention includes a main body (10), a print head (20) which discharges ink and moves in a transverse direction, a head cleaner (30) which cleans a... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20080066634 - Microcontact printing device: A microcontact printing device including a tube member for storing or transferring a printing fluid or liquid and a printing element attached to an end of the fluid dispensing member. Further, a microcontact printhead device including a holder and at least one microcontact printing device disposed within the holder, the... Agent: Duane Morris LLP

20080066635 - Method and apparatus for performing operations within a stencil printer: An apparatus for performing operations on a surface of an electronic substrate comprises a frame, a dispenser, coupled to the frame, to dispense a material onto the electronic substrate, a stencil moveable on a gantry system having at least one aperture to receive the material as the material is dispensed... Agent: Lowrie, Lando & Anastasi, LLP

20080066636 - Image generating apparatus: Obtained is an image generating apparatus capable of suppressing increase in the number of components and inhibiting a rotating member from slipping off an apparatus body by an abrupt external impact or vibration in a nonprinting state including a state in transportation. This sublimating printer (image generating apparatus) includes a... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20080066637 - Device for receiving a cylinder of a printing unit and corresponding printing unit: A cylinder of a printing unit is received in a bearing structure that includes a bearing block having a rotary bearing and which is movable along an adjustment path in linear bearings. The bearing structure is configured as a bearing unit that can be mounted as a whole. The bearing... Agent: Douglas R Hanscom Jones Tullar & Cooper

20080066638 - Security sheet checking apparatus and corresponding control method of a printing machine: A method and a security sheet inspection apparatus is described of the type includes at least a main driving cylinder (3), whereto a security sheet to be inspected is made to adhere, as well as an inspection system including at least an illuminator (5), a camera (6) for sheet image... Agent: Young & Thompson

20080060535 - Method for inline die cutting that compensates for image variances: A method of inline die cutting of a substrate including providing a substrate having a print image thereon; detecting a position of the print image and outputting a web position signal; computing a die correction signal in response to the web position signal and outputting the die correction signal; and... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080060536 - Printing screen and method: A printing screen has a first metallic layer that is electroformed and has a number of apertures in the metallic layer. A second metallic layer is electroformed over the first metallic layer. The second metallic layer forms a frame around groups of the apertures.... Agent: Law Office Of Dale B. Halling, LLC

20080060537 - Equipment for preparing dampening solutions for offset printing: An installation for preparing dampening solutions for offset printing with a device (10, 62, 72) for preparing a dampening solution and a device (40, 60, 70 for feeding one or more basic liquid materials (42) for preparing the dampening solution into the device (10, 62, 72) for preparing the dampening... Agent: Richard M. Goldberg

20080060538 - Method for automatically controlling the cut-off register in a web-fed rotary press: A method for automatically controlling the cut-off register in a web-fed rotary press includes determining an expected cut-off error in the area of harps for one of webs or partial webs before the formation of strands and automatically controlling the cut-off register of the one of the webs or partial... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane

20080060539 - Device and method for identifying modules in a graphics machine: A method for detecting a type of one of plurality of devices attached to a graphics machine, each device being one of at least a first type and a second type. The method includes detecting at a controller the type of device attached to or to be attached to the... Agent: Davidson, Davidson & Kappel, LLC

20080060540 - Image recording apparatus and control method for an image recording apparatus: In an image recording apparatus, when a photograph image to be printed on a printable surface area of a circular recording medium is selected, a margin area for writing a title or a description is set. Once the margin area has been set, the photograph image is arranged in an... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080053319 - Pad printing of video targets for strain measurement: The disclosure relates to pad printing of video targets on a specimen for tensile or similar testing by a video extensometer. The pad printer may include various improvements such as pneumatic pistons to vary the pad spacing; pad supports which vary their spacing between ink pick-up and printing thereby allowing... Agent: Day Pitney LLP Account: Illinois Tool Works Inc.

20080053320 - Pad printing of video targets for strain measurement: The disclosure relates to pad printing of video targets on a specimen for tensile or similar testing by a video extensometer. The pad printer may include various improvements such as pneumatic pistons to vary the pad spacing; pad supports which vary their spacing between ink pick-up and printing thereby allowing... Agent: Day Pitney LLP Account: Illinois Tool Works Inc.

20080053321 - Manufacture of biosensors by continuous web incorporating enzyme humidification: The present invention is directed to an improvement to the current method of printing test sensors using a continuous web of substrate material. The improved method includes incorporating a means of retaining the high water content of the enzyme print material by maintaining relative humidity levels around the enzyme print... Agent: Philip S. Johnson Johnson & Johnson

20080053322 - Offset lithography system: The inking system of an offset lithography press incorporates certain rollers running at different speeds. The hard rollers do not oscillate and the form rollers and the soft transfer rollers of the inking system oscillate endways.... Agent: Thomas R. Lampe Bielen, Lampe & Thoeming

20080053323 - Method and apparatus for simultaneously applying two-color markings on an article: An apparatus and method for simultaneously or sequentially applying a plurality of distinctive markings onto the surface of an article such as a flexible polymeric hose is described in which the marking apparatus comprises a plurality of reservoirs having a plurality of marking fluids stored therein, wherein each reservoir has... Agent: Dayco Products, LLC

20080053324 - Print system, paper printer, and method of controlling print system: A print system includes a paper feed device; a print device which has a platen roller and a print head and inserts the fed paper and an ink ribbon at a head position between the platen roller and the print head to perform printing; a disjunction device which relatively moves... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20080053326 - Inkjet composite stereographic printing plate and method for producing such printing plate: A method of making a relief image printing plate by means of application of successive layers of polymer on a composite structure using inkjets. Relief depth (Need explanation in description of invention) is able to be minimized by building required press undercut thickness by applying the inkjetted polymer on the... Agent: Emch, Schaffer, Schaub & Porcello Co

20080053325 - Method of manufacturing pre-inked stamps and stamp member: At stamp manufacturing blank printing-plate (3) and inked porous base plate are brought to contact for the moment of creation of printing pattern. Blank stamping member for pre-inked stamp consisting from blank printing plate (3), made from porous thermo-plastic material, printing plate's case (1) and porous base plate (2), filled... Agent: Leo-henn Humal

20080053327 - Identifying sheets within stacks using edge marking: Embodiments herein include a method of identifying sheets within a stack of printed sheets for sorting or further evaluation. In one embodiment the method comprises printing non-test production printing job(s) on sheets of media and outputting the printed sheets into a stack of sheets. The method monitors the printing of... Agent: Frederick W. Gibb, Iii Gibb I.p. Law Firm, LLC

20080053329 - Method for printing address labels using a secure indicia printer: Printing methods and systems that provide both a secure value label printing mode of operation and a non-secure mode of operation that allows generic printing of non-value items without compromising the security feature of the secure printing mode are described. If the printing system determines the image is a non-secure... Agent: Pitney Bowes Inc. 35 Waterview Drive

20080053328 - Printing method and apparatus: A method of configuring a printable item for use with a printer, where the printer has a maximum allowable item thickness and a maximum allowable item thickness variation, and where the thickness of the printable item varies by more than the maximum allowable item thickness variation. The method involves providing... Agent: V. Gerald Grafe, Esq.