Printing inventions 12/08

20080314265 - Method for affixing a seal impression on a paper document and hand-held device using the same: A hand-held device and a method for affixing a seal impression on a paper document are provided. The hand-held device includes a processor, a memory unit, an input unit, and a seal impression generation unit for generating a seal impression. The processor generates a file code in response to a... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20080314266 - Pad printing machine: In present invention relates to a pad printing machine having a printing subassembly support that bears several pad printing subassemblies, at least two object carriers are used and together with the printing subassemblies of the printing subassembly support, constitute one print station wherein multiple print-objects, which are configured on the... Agent: Lowe, Hauptman, Ham & Berner, LLP (itw)

20080314267 - Printing quality control method and apparatus for printing press: A printing quality control method and apparatus are disclosed for an intaglio printing press including an intaglio cylinder which is supplied with ink, an impression cylinder opposing the intaglio cylinder, and holding a sheet which is supplied with the ink from the intaglio cylinder, and a motor for adjusting a... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080314268 - Improved print control strip for color measurement on printing material, measuring method and method of metering ink: A print control strip to be applied to printing material during a multicolor printing process, includes multiple measuring fields associated with one ink zone on the printing material. The measuring fields, which are associated with one ink zone, include at least two gray measuring fields. A method of measuring fields... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20080314269 - Printing quality control method and apparatus for printing press: A printing quality control method and apparatus are disclosed for a printing press including an ink fountain for storing ink, and a motor for driving an ink fountain roller which adjusts the amount of ink supplied from the ink fountain. According to the method and apparatus, a face side distance... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080314270 - Ink supply amount adjustment method and system for relief printing press: Provided are an ink supply amount adjustment method and system for a relief printing press which enable a reduction in a burden of the operator by enabling automatic adjustment of an ink fountain key opening degree and an ink fountain roller rotation speed on the basis of the width or... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080314271 - Method for making a relief printing form: The invention provides a method for making a printing form having a relief surface on a floor from a photosensitive element. The method involves generating a polymerization rate curve for the photosensitive element from a step exposure test by measuring a cure response, such as floor thickness or one or... Agent: E I Du Pont De Nemours And Company Legal Patent Records Center

20080314272 - Printing method and apparatus: Disclosed are a printing method and apparatus which utilizes surface modification of a substrate on which an indicia pattern is to be created.... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20080314273 - Bank formed substrate and color pattern formed substrate: A color pattern formed substrate comprising a transparent substrate; a bank having an ink-repellent property on the transparent substrate; and colored layers resulted from color inks that are formed in the openings of the bank is disclosed. A surface layer portion of the bank has a better ink-repellent property than... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20080314274 - Method and apparatus for unloading printing plates: An unload table (50) for a plate making machine comprises an unload table proximal segment (194) proximate the cylindrical surface (120) of the imaging drum (110) of the plate making machine. The unload table proximal segment can tilt to receive a printing plate (40) being unloaded from the imaging drum.... Agent: David A. Novais, Patent Legal Staff

20080314275 - Method and apparatus for manufacturing panel products including a printed surface: Provided are a method and apparatus for fabricating a panel product including a board, panel or substrate having at least one surface on which a decorative image and alignment marks corresponding to an image data file are applied. The alignment marks and the image data file are then used to... Agent: Owens Corning

20080314276 - Inkjet printing system with movable print heads and methods thereof: Embodiments of the invention are directed to a deposition printing system which includes two or more print units capable of moving with respect to each other during printing, each of the print units having one or more print heads together forming a head arrangement; and a controller to control movement... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20080314277 - Printing quality control method and system for relief printing press: Provided are an ink supply amount adjustment method and system for a relief printing press including: a first rotor, such as an ink form roller, to which ink is supplied; a second rotor, such as a plate cylinder, to which the ink is supplied from the first rotor; and adjustment... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080307985 - Stencil printing apparatus allowing double-side printing: The stencil printing apparatus comprises control means for detecting that a printing operation failure has occurred, when a paper sheet, on which a front-side image has been printed, and which should be fed from the printing portion to paper refeeding means is fed to the paper discharging portion instead of... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080307987 - Liquid transfer member position adjusting method and apparatus of rotary stencil printing plate liquid coating machine: A rotary screen printing press includes, a rotary screen cylinder which supports a screen printing forme and is supported rotatably; an impression cylinder which is provided to oppose the rotary screen cylinder, and is supported rotatably; and a squeegee which is located within the rotary screen cylinder and, during printing,... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080307986 - Liquid transfer member pressing force adjusting method and apparatus of rotary stencil printing plate liquid coating machine: A rotary screen printing press includes, a rotary screen cylinder which supports a screen printing forme and is supported rotatably; an impression cylinder which is provided to oppose the rotary screen cylinder, and is supported rotatably; and a squeegee which is located within the rotary screen cylinder and, during printing,... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080307988 - Central manifold supply for spray bar: A spray bar includes a manifold or multiple manifolds located on the spray bar. More specifically, the spray bar includes one or more manifolds connected to dedicated feed lines each having a spray head, resulting in improved lateral spray distribution.... Agent: Davidson, Davidson & Kappel, LLC

20080307989 - Printing machine and a corresponding method: A rotary printing machine including a continuous web of material to be printed, the web having two sides, and at least one printing unit designed to print on the web. It includes a powdering device, designed to deposit powder on at least one of the two sides of the web... Agent: Davidson, Davidson & Kappel, LLC

20080307990 - Method of making a lithographic printing plate: A method of making a lithographic printing plate includes the steps of: a) providing a lithographic printing plate precursor including (i) a support having a hydrophilic surface or which is provided with a hydrophilic layer, (ii) a coating on the support including an imaging layer, and, optionally, an intermediate layer... Agent: Agfa C/o Keating & Bennett, LLP

20080307991 - Method for producing metal thin film: A method for producing a metal thin film on a substrate includes: a step of applying an ink to a flat blanket; a first transfer step of bringing the first blanket and a letterpress having a predetermined pattern of projections into contact by a pressure compression while the flat blanked... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20080302254 - Marking device: The invention concerns a marking device comprising a support frame, marking means including a marking member and means for moving the marking member parallel to two mutually perpendicular movement planes and to the surface to be marked to produce, on the surface to be marked, two-dimensional symbols inscribed in a... Agent: Clark & Brody

20080302255 - Method and a device in die-cutting, and a die-cutting press: A method and a device for producing a diffractive microstructured area on the surface layer of a substrate by embossing. The device includes a die-cutting press that includes a press member and a backing member and at least one die-cutting tool arranged for die-cutting the substrate placed between the press... Agent: Venable LLP

20080302256 - Method of applying indicia to plastic parts: The invention relates to a method of applying indicia such as labels, text, logos, bar codes, or the like to plastic parts, in particular storage and transport containers, palettes, or trays. The goal is to create a cost-effective method of the application of multi-colored and consistently easily readable, durable printing... Agent: K.f. Ross P.C.

20080302257 - Legend printing stencil and method for manufacturing printed circuit boards using the same: An exemplary legend printing stencil for printing a circuit substrate for manufacturing a number of printed circuit board is provided. The stencil includes at least a first printing portion, at least a second printing portion and a junction portion between the first printing portion and the second printing portion. The... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20080302258 - Screen printing stencil and method for manufacturing the same: An exemplary screen printing stencil includes a frame, a screen mesh and a metal foil. The screen mesh is stretched tightly in the frame. The metal foil is attached on a surface of the screen mesh. A screen printing pattern is defined on the metal foil by a laser machining... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20080302259 - Stencil printing apparatus: A stencil printing apparatus with a plate-making device has first control means for executing a special plate-making mode for performing a plate-making operation so that perforated holes to be formed in a film of a master by heating and driving with regard to odd bits corresponding to odd-numbered heat generators... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080302260 - Printing press inking systems: A series of pumps for precise metering of ink to all zones of a web press. One set of the ink pumps is operated by a set of motors, one motor for every two zones. The motors are reversible, preferably with a toothed belt driving each pump. The other units... Agent: Vedder Price P.C.

20080302261 - Device and method for removing the jacket from cliche rollers in printing machines: Device for the substitution of a cliché-jacket from a cliché cylinder in a printing machine or the like wherein said cylinder (1) is connected to a motor (3) driving it into rotation about its longitudinal axis and is provided with radial holes connected with an air inlet (7), the latter... Agent: Mcglew & Tuttle, PC

20080302262 - Direct printing device: A printing apparatus for direct printing comprises an image bearing printing surface (10) that comprises a plurality of cells (12) for storing ink; a means for loading ink into the cells; a means for imaging direction on a substrate (55) by affecting ink properties in a first group of cells... Agent: David A. Novais Patent Legal Staff

20080302263 - Infrared encoding of security elements using standard xerographic materials: The teachings as provided herein relate to a watermark embedded in an image that has the property of being relatively indecipherable under normal light, and yet decipherable under infrared illumination when viewed by a suitable infrared sensitive device. This infrared mark entails, a substrate reflective to infrared radiation, and a... Agent: Patent Documentation Center

20080295710 - Sheet-fed printing press: A sheet-fed printing press is provided with a cold foil-transferring unit for transferring foil onto a paper sheet, a printing unit for performing printing on the paper sheet, and an embossing unit for giving an embossed finish to the paper sheet.... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080295711 - Plate for rotary processing machine and method of mounting of the same: Provided is a pair of plates for a rotary processing machine having the following configuration and a method of mounting the same by which the pair of plates can be mounted on the respective outer circumferential surfaces of a pair of cylinders with high precision. When a female recessed plate... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080295712 - Improved coldset web offset printing: In a coldset web offset printing process, a substrate, e.g. newsprint, is printed with the desired matter and is then coated on both sides essentially simultaneously with a clear varnish to a film weight no more than 2 gsm dry weight on each side.... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro

20080295713 - Notching unit, folder and printing press: A notching unit includes a notching blade and a notching blade holder. The notching blade holder is moved between a notch forming position where the notching blade forms intermittent notches in a folded signature and a groove waiting position where the notching blade does not form the intermittent notches in... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20080295715 - Apparatus for introducing sheet into sheet-fed printing press: Apparatus for introducing sheet is disclosed which mainly aims at feeding sheet smoothly into sheet-fed printing press even in case of thick sheet with higher resilient force. The present invention premises sheet-fed printing press with a plurality of printing units whose sheet transfer path is composed of double-sized transfer and... Agent: Ladas & Parry

20080295714 - Rotary printing press: A rotary printing press, which has a printing tower with a first printing unit, which is arranged on a support base, and a second printing unit, which is arranged above the first printing unit, and a substructure arrangement, is disclosed. The substructure arrangement supports the second printing unit so that... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20080295716 - Printing unit of a printing press: A printing unit with at least one plate cylinder and a set-up device, which can be moved from a rest position to the plate cylinder, is disclosed. In order to make good accessibility to the printing couples and to the set-up device possible, the set-up device is arranged in a... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20080295717 - Smooth roller with low line load and methods: An ink form roller in a printing press is provided including a core, a first layer surrounding part of the core, and a second layer surrounding part of the first layer, the second layer having a durometer hardness greater than the first layer. In addition, an ink form roller in... Agent: Davidson, Davidson & Kappel, LLC

20080295718 - Ink applicator for printing roller: A printing roller has an outer surface and is rotatable in a rotational sense about a roller axis. A liquid applicator has an upstream blade having an edge engageable with the roller surface and a downstream blade having an edge engageable with the roller surface downstream in the sense from... Agent: K.f. Ross P.C.

20080295719 - Method for drying a printing ink on a printing substrate in a printing press, and a printing press: A method for drying a printing ink (114) on a printing substrate (14) in a printing press (30), and a printing press (30). The printing substrate (14) is moved along a path (16) through the printing press (30) and printed on by at least one printing ink (114) at a... Agent: Davidson, Davidson & Kappel, LLC

20080295720 - Method for making a lithographic printing plate: A method for making a lithographic printing plate includes the steps of a) providing an aqueous fluid containing at least 2 weight % of a fluorosurfactant based on the total weight of the aqueous fluid wherein the fluorosurfactant has a phosphorous containing group capable of reacting with the surface of... Agent: Agfa C/o Keating & Bennett, LLP

20080295721 - Printing apparatus, holding device, printing method and program: A printing apparatus for performing printing on printing base materials comprises a holding device for holding a plurality of printing base materials at the same time and an image forming part for forming an image on a plurality of printing base materials held by said holding device. The holding device... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080295722 - Method and apparatus for pre-staging printing plates: A plate making method comprises pre-aligning a printing plate (50) to an imaging drum (20) of a plate making machine (10) while the printing plate is moving along a plate supply path (60) to the plate making machine. The printing plate is located on a motorized shuttle carriage (90) during... Agent: David A. Novais Patent Legal Staff

20080295723 - Printing press: A printing press for processing a web of printing material, in particular for producing labels or packaging, includes a plurality of printing units which are convertible between different printing processes. Each of the convertible printing units includes at least one receiving element to releasably connect and receive a printing unit... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20080295724 - Method for detection of occurrence of printing errors on printed substrates during processing thereof on a printing press: There is described a method for detection of occurrence of printing errors on printed substrates during processing thereof on a printing press comprising the steps of providing multiple sensors on functional components of the printing press to monitor the behaviour of the printing press during processing of the printed substrates... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC