Printing inventions 04/08

20080092757 - Optical disk drawing apparatus: A system control unit writes image data received from a host apparatus into a first storage regions. Next, the system control unit produces duplication data from the image data written in the first storage region, and then, writes these produced duplication data into a second storage regions. Furthermore, the system... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20080092758 - Stop position control method and apparatus of rotary stencil printing press: In a rotary screen device in which ink is transferred through holes of a screen, with a rotary screen cylinder provided with the screen being rotated, to carry out printing, the rotary screen cylinder is stopped, in accordance with a stop signal, at a position at which a pattern-free portion... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080092759 - Dampening unit in offset printing press: It is desirable that ink and water be fully kneaded or distributed together when an inking unit 4 and a dampening unit 5 are in communication with each other. Accordingly, a dampening water communication path 17 which brings the inking unit 4 and the dampening unit 5 in and out... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20080092760 - Device and method for driving a reversing gripper in a sheet-processing machine, reversing drum and printing press: A reversing gripper system of a sheet-processing machine includes respective drive motors for driving cooperating fixed grippers and spring-loaded grippers to create pivoting and opening movements. The motors may be stationary or may be disposed inside the periphery of a reversing drum. A transmission between a drive motor and the... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20080092761 - Printing machine control method and printing machine: A printing machine control method according to this invention includes a platemaking step for making a printing plate having, formed thereon, a test pattern with different dot percentages for areas corresponding to ink keys, a first printing step for making prints by using the printing plate; a first density measuring... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080092762 - Method of controlling a powder sprayer and printing press having a powder sprayer: A method of controlling a powder sprayer having a fan jet nozzle configuration in a printing press, includes controlling the fan jet nozzle configuration as a function of operating parameters of the printing press. A printing press having a powder sprayer is also provided.... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20080092763 - Method for making a lithographic plate: A process for the post-treatment of an imaged lithographic printing plate comprises (a) Contacting a lithographic printing plate having image areas and non-image areas on a lithographic substrate with a solution comprising at least one phosphono-substituted siloxane of the following general formula (I) that is defined herein and (b) drying.... Agent: Eastman Kodak Company Patent Legal Staff

20080087178 - Apparatus for supporting a printed circuit board substrate and method of forming printed circuit board using the same: An apparatus is provided for supporting a PCB substrate during printing. The apparatus includes first and second fixing units that cooperate to edge-clamp the substrate. The first fixing unit includes a first movable plate, a first actuator, and a first stopper that limits outward movement of the first movable plate.... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP Attn: Patent Docket Dept.

20080087179 - Printing couple of a printing press: A printing couple of a printing press, such as a rotary printing press, where the printing couple includes a form cylinder, a transfer cylinder, an impression cylinder, and an inking couple. Here, the inking couple can apply the printing ink to the form cylinder, that is, to the printing forms... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane

20080087180 - Device for securing a turning axle of a type unit: A device for securing a turning axle (9) of a type unit (3) to an actuating bow (5) of a self-inking stamp (1) having a turning mechanism (2), with at least one bushing-shaped axle-securing member (12) which, in the mounted position, is slid onto an end region of the turning... Agent: Collard & Roe, P.C.

20080087181 - Method for producing a flexo plate mold: A method is provided to produce a mold for casting in and curing of a curable material for flexo plate production, the method comprising the steps of: providing a substrate having at least one of a layer of ablative material and a supporting layer of non-ablative material; selectively performing at... Agent: Edward Langer C/o Shiboleth Yisraeli Roberts Zisman & Co.

20080087182 - Cleaning equipment for a rotary printing press: The invention concerns with a cleaning equipment (1) for cleaning at least one guide roll (2) in a rotary printing press that feeds a paper web (3), which has at least one cleaning brush (4) in the range of the guide roll (2) that should be cleaned, which is arranged... Agent: Mcdonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

20080087183 - Lithographic printing plate precursor and lithographic printing method: e

20080087184 - Print control strip and method of preparing the same: A method of preparing a print control strip including at least two process control elements and being adapted to at least a width of at least one used area of at least one original image, includes determining borders of the at least one used area. A state is assigned to... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20080078297 - Printer: The invention provides a technique which can improve a printing precision of a screen printing. A fixing mechanism for fixing a screen mask of a printer to a mask holder is structured such as to include a first fixing mechanism fixing sides of four sides of a frame existing in... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080078298 - Web offset press, and method and apparatus for replacing printing plate in web offset press: A method and apparatus for replacing a printing plate enabling to easily replace the printing plate of a plate cylinder of a printing unit in an easy posture in a variable cutoff rotary press of a web offset press or the like is realized. Upon replacing the printing plate wound... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP