Printing inventions 11/08

20080289517 - Method for transferring a micron pattern on an optical pattern and the thus obtained optical pattern: The inventive method consists in transferring a pattern (P) onto the optical article (1) in the form of one or several portions of transferable material (3) retained by a pressure-sensitive adhesive material layer (2) and in applying transferable material portions with the aid of a pad by placing the adhesive... Agent: Occhiuti Rohlicek & Tsao, LLP

20080289518 - Screen printing apparatus and screen printing method: In supply of feedback data to improve a positional deviation quantity and a deviation state of a soldering paste printed on individual substrates held on the carrier, a plurality of average values of individual positional deviation for each of the individual substrates are obtained, and then, if the deviation value... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20080289519 - Metal stencil foil attachment to screen mesh: Methods and apparatuses for attaching metal stencil foils to screen mesh using thermoplastic materials. Mechanical, rather than adhesive, attachment of metal stencil foils to screen mesh is accomplished by melting thermoplastic material so as to encapsulate portions of metal stencil foils and screen mesh resulting in faster, less expensive, and... Agent: Eugene Frank Newman Jr.

20080289520 - Printing roller apparatus and method: A printing roller apparatus and method are for use with ink and a gel carried on an operatively rotating casting drum. The apparatus and method include a print roller and a drive member. The print roller has an exterior print surface rollably engaging the gel. The drive member directly engages... Agent: Lang Michener LLP

20080289521 - Surface tracking rotary pad printing apparatus and method: In one aspect of a first embodiment, a rotary pad printing system comprises a controller (400), an image source (498) that provides an image to the controller, a rotary pad (200) that is urged to rotate by a first motive source, a monochrome or color ink source or applicator such... Agent: Lloyd Douglas Clark

20080289522 - Apparatus for turning a sheet during transport through a printing press: An apparatus for turning a sheet during transport through a printing press provides better printed results as a result of improved sheet guidance. A transfer drum has gripper systems disposed in channels for holding the sheet at the leading and trailing sheet edge, and guide elements covering the channels.... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20080289523 - Anilox printing unit and printing press having an anilox printing unit: An anilox printing unit includes, as inking unit rolls, an ink applicator roll and an engraved roll mounted in rapid change roll sockets, for removing the engraved roll from the roll sockets and inserting another engraved roll into the roll sockets by an operator. The engraved roll is hollow and... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20080289524 - Roller micro-contact printer with pressure control: A micro-contact printing apparatus includes a roller (100, 200, 300) with a gas filled volume (220, 320) that deforms to provide a more uniform and better-controlled surface pressure for a deformable stamp roller surface (240, 340). In one approach, a gas-filled volume (220) is provided in a deformable gas-tight material... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080289525 - Driving system for the cylinder cleaning assemblies of printing machines: When the plate cylinder (D) is provided with at least one longitudinal channel (C) housing the sheet grippers (P) and when the ends of this channel have cams (Z) for contact with rollers mounted on the cleaning assembly, to ensure that when this assembly is actively working the presser (6)... Agent: Stites & Harbison PLLC

20080289526 - Method for imparting three-dimensional images and indicia to planar coated surfaces: A method for imparting indicia to a wet-film of resinous liquid and magnetically positionable particles located on a substrate. The device employs a planar magnet abutting a planar metal sheet imaging indicia formed thereon. The planar metal sheet interacts with the magnetic field communicated to the wet-film to form indicia... Agent: Donn K. Harms Patent & Trademark Law Center

20080289527 - Device and method for correcting lateral position of a printing substrate: A device for correcting the lateral position of a printing substrate, preferably a sheet of paper, held by a gripper bar and conveyed in a transporting direction has a linear drive that includes a first primary part and a first secondary part configured as a first carriage and associated with... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20080289528 - Inspection system for inspecting an imprinted substrate on a printing press: An inspection system for inspecting an imprinted substrate on a printing press has a light source, a contact image sensor, and a processor. The light source is configured to illuminate a portion of the substrate which has been imprinted with different colors at a plurality of printing units of the... Agent: Quad/graphics

20080282913 - Mandrel used for digital printing on can members: There is proposed a clamping mandrel for a rotationally symmetrical hollow body in the form of a beverage can integrally comprising a body portion and a bottom. Accurate coupling and precise control of the movement of the mandrel is to be transmitted to the hollow body. For that purpose there... Agent: Sheridan Ross PC

20080282914 - Fabric printing system, stencil kit, and method: A fabric-printing stencil system includes a first stencil plate with a continuous incision that defines a first stencil image dividing said first stencil plate into a positive image plate and a negative image plate. The negative and positive image plates are complementary to form the entire plate, except for the... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20080282915 - Method and system for predicting print colors: A profile generator determines differences between the standard spectral reflectances of a color chart printed under standard density conditions and the spectral reflectances of a color chart printed while the density of one of the colors C, M, Y, K is changed, and the densities of the other colors are... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080282916 - Surface with a surface structure for contacting printing material, machine for processing material and method for producing areas with a surface structure: A surface, especially a galvanically molded transport cylinder sleeve, has a surface structure for contacting printing material, in particular sheets of paper. The surface structure includes first structural elevations spaced apart from each other by a minimum distance A1 and having a height B1 and second structural elevations spaced apart... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20080282917 - Cylinder with reduced inertia variation and method: A plate cylinder includes a cylinder including a longitudinal axis and a centroid located at a geometric center of the cylinder. The cylinder also includes a slot for receiving both ends of a printing plate; the cylinder including a counter balance hole extending axially in the cylinder and being displaced... Agent: Davidson, Davidson & Kappel, LLC

20080282918 - Apparatus and method for clamping printing plates on a plate cylinder: An apparatus and method for clamping printing plates on a plate cylinder is disclosed. A clamping element is integrated into a lockup slot of a plate cylinder with an actuating element. The clamping element is transferred by the actuating element between a first position, where the clamping element clamps the... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20080282919 - Clamping device: A printing cylinder, including: a cylinder body defining at least one tensing channel for tensing with at least one printing block; a tensing jaw arranged in the tensing channel; and a tensing counter jaw which is arranged next to the tensing jaw in the tensing channel and is tiltable about... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20080282920 - Device for feeding printing plates to a plate cylinder and printing unit having the device: A device for feeding printing plates to a plate cylinder includes a pressure roller for pressing the printing plate against the circumferential surface of the plate cylinder when the printing plate is being mounted. In order to compensate for uneven pressing forces resulting from a bending of the pressure roller,... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20080282921 - Electronic devices and processes for forming the same: An electronic device includes an array. In one embodiment, a process for forming an electronic device includes the array, which includes electronic components, can include printing one or more layers as a series of segments onto a workpiece. In one embodiment, a process includes printing a layer onto the workpiece... Agent: E I Du Pont De Nemours And Company Legal Patent Records Center

20080276813 - Method and apparatus for printing a patterned layer on a flatsubstate with a flat-type-bed: A method of printing a patterned layer comprises (step 31 in FIG. 4) detecting the position and alignment of clichés supported on subbeds on the bed of a printing machine (see FIG. 5) using alignment marks thereon. The positions of the subbeds are adjusted according to the detected alignment and... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080276814 - Web press and method for producing the press: A web press with at least one printing couple, where the at least one printing couple or each printing couple is provided with a form cylinder, a transfer cylinder, an inking couple, and preferably a dampening unit, and a transfer system is assigned to the transfer cylinder, and a printing... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane LLP

20080276815 - Transfer drum between printing units of a sheet-fed printing press: A transfer drum between printing units in a sheet-fed printing press includes gripper systems which can be switched to a desired mode of operation by simple measures and ensure stable and reliable transport of a sheet between printing units when in a respective operating position. A drum body has journals... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20080276816 - Method for automatically adjusting pressure between rotary bodies in a printing press and printing press for carrying out the method: A method for automatically adjusting a pressure between rotary bodies in a printing press, includes measuring an image of a pressure strip on printing material. An image of a first pressure strip formed by a first rotary body together with a second body and an image of a second pressure... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20080276817 - Printed security mark: Embodiments of a printed security mark and a process are disclosed.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080271615 - Method for forming a glove with custom logo: The present invention is generally directed to a method for forming a glove tab with a custom logo, and attaching the glove tab to an existing glove. In a first embodiment, a computer-generated logo is printed onto matte media using an inkjet, laserjet or dot matrix printer, and then the... Agent: Acushnet Company

20080271616 - Pad printing on textile substrates: A method for pad printing a pattern on a textile substrate with a pad printing machine, and fabric and apparel so formed from the textile substrate. The method includes the steps of positioning the textile substrate on the printing area of the pad printing machine, transferring a pattern having at... Agent: Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, PLLC

20080271617 - Stencil printing machine with a plurality of drum units and method of controlling the same: A controller reads out image data of an area frame that a user has drawn on an original and accurately extracts the area frame by removing noise from the read-out image data to divide image data of an area outside the area frame and image data of an area inside... Agent: Nath & Associates

20080271618 - Procedure and device to clean the nozzles of a spray dampening unit: The invention involves a printing press comprising a spray dampening unit 2 having a spray nozzle cleaning device 3, a spray dampening unit 2 having a spray nozzle cleaning device 3 and a spray nozzle bar 22 having a spray nozzle cleaning device 3. Said spray nozzle cleaning device 3,... Agent: Patti, Hewitt & Arezina LLC

20080271619 - Printing blanket: In order to subject optically variable elements to lower stresses in a printing blanket (1) for intaglio printing having at least one first zone (11) with a first roughness, at least one second zone (12) has a predeterminable second roughness lower than the first roughness and/or a predetermined recess (15)... Agent: Henry M Feiereisen, LLC Henry M Feiereisen

20080271621 - Printing group including cylinders supported for movement: A printing group of a printing machine is comprised of a pair of cylinders each having a circumference that corresponds essentially to a length of a section of a side to be printed. The effective generated surface of at least one of the cylinders comprises, at the most, one break... Agent: Jones, Tullar & Cooper, P.C.

20080271620 - Printing machine with modular additional printing group: There is described a web-fed or sheet-fed printing machine for security papers, in particular banknotes, comprising a machine frame in which is located a main printing group, the printing machine further comprising an additional printing group, independent of the main printing group, placed upstream of the main printing group with... Agent: Crompton, Seager & Tufte, LLC

20080271622 - Apparatus and method for printing a printing substrate web: An apparatus and method for printing a printing substrate web in a web-fed printing press is disclosed. The web-fed printing press has at least one printing unit for printing at least one, preferably several, printing substrate webs. The web fed-printing press comprises a web guide device, through which the or... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20080271623 - Method and device for producing printed products: The invention relates to printed products which are folded once, twice or three times, are ejected by a rotary printing machine, or produced by a rotation, are stored temporarily, and then ejected by storage units. The printed products are folded essentially in the center and stitched optionally along the additional... Agent: Rankin, Hill & Clark LLP

20080271624 - Sheet-fed printing press and printing method: A sheet-fed printing press exhibiting excellent workability is provided, in which even by powder spray in print work equal to conventional one, any printing plate can be used because wear is enhanced by the printing press body and with which low cost can be realized by eliminating the need for... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20080271625 - High-throughput apparatus for patterning flexible substrates and method of using the same: The present invention is directed to a high-throughput apparatus for patterning a flexible substrate and methods of using the same.... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20080271626 - Printing press cylinder: A printing press cylinder having a cylinder base body and a functional layer, which forms an outer surface of the printing press cylinder, is disclosed. The cylinder base body is made of phenolic resin impregnated textile fibers or of hardboard.... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20080271627 - Lithographic printing press and method for on-press imaging laser sensitive lithographic plate: A lithographic printing press having a plate cylinder in a covered compartment suitable for on-press imaging and developing a laser sensitive plate is described. The plate cylinder as well as certain other press parts is covered by non-transparent and/or safe-light-passing-only covers so that no or only limited amount of unsafe... Agent: Gary Ganghui Teng

20080271628 - Imprint lithography: An imprint lithography apparatus includes an imprint template operably connected to an imprint actuator. The imprint actuator is actuatable to displace the template along an imprint axis to bring the template into contact with an imprintable medium. The template is connected to the actuator via a bearing configured to permit... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080271629 - Method and apparatus for handling printing plates on a web-fed printing press: A method and apparatus for handling printing plates on a web-fed printing press is disclosed. Printing plates imaged on an imaging device are assigned a coding relating to the plate cylinder position of the printing couple at which the respective printing plate is used. Imaged printing plates are inserted into... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20080271630 - Method for handling printing plates: A method for handling printing plates, namely for arranging printing plates in cassettes that are used as printing plate repositories during a printing plate change, is disclosed. Each printing plate is assigned a coding before, during or after imaging relating to a plate cylinder position of a printing couple at... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20080271631 - Placement and removal device of a doctor blade in a printing screen cylinder: The invention relates to a placement and removal device of a doctor blade in a screen printing impression cylinder mounted on a printing machine. The device comprises a support fixed to the frame of the machine in the extension of the cylinder on which a slide is mounted in a... Agent: Crompton, Seager & Tufte, LLC

20080271632 - Method for controlling luminance of transmissive board and transmissive board: A method for controlling luminance of a transmissive board at the moment of transmissive illumination, in a short time, at a low cost. The luminance of a control object is made the target luminance by a rough control step of printing ink having a constant light transmittance on a front... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP