Printing inventions 05/09

20090133594 - Light guide sheet, movable contact structure using the light guide sheet, method of manufacturing the movable contact structure, and switch using the light guide sheet and the movable contact structure: A light shielding part includes a slit provided between a first light guide body and a second light guide body, and an attenuation part which has unevenness formed by print and is additionally provided near end sides of the first light guide body and the second light guide body. The... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20090133593 - Method and device for labeling containers: A method and device for printing containers. The abstract of the disclosure is submitted herewith as required by 37 C.F.R. §1.72(b). As stated in 37 C.F.R. §1.72(b): A brief abstract of the technical disclosure in the specification must commence on a separate sheet, preferably following the claims, under the heading... Agent: Nils H. Ljungman & Associates

20090133595 - Screen printing apparatus and screen printing method: The clearance ‘d’ between a substrate 3 and a mask 2 can be reduced at the time of the position recognition by horizontally offsetting two recognition devices 53,54 for recognizing the substrate 3 and the mask 2. Therefore, since the ascending stroke of the substrate 3 can be shortened at... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20090133596 - Printing method and device using controlled radiation outlets for creating a structure: In a method and device to generate a print image on a carrier material, a surface of a print carrier is covered with a layer of a fountain solution which is one of ink-repelling and ink-attracting. Ink-attracting and ink-repelling regions are generated via structuring. Ink is applied that adheres to... Agent: Schiff Hardin LLP Patent Dpartment

20090126584 - Recording medium and producing method thereof, and inkjet recording method: The present invention provides a recording medium which can form a high quality image in which curling, image blur, and mixing of colors occurring with image recording are prevented and separation of ink does not easily occur; a method of producing the recording medium; and an ink jet recording method... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090126585 - Stencil printing apparatus: A stencil printing apparatus for wrapping a master around an outer circumferential surface of a plate cylinder to perform printing, the stencil printing apparatus being capable of preventing the occurrence of abnormal images or afterimage phenomenon which causes confidential information leakage, without increasing cost or causing any problems. This stencil... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090126587 - Method and device for creating a pattern on an erasable and re-usable gravure printing form: The aim of the invention is to further improve the ablation precision in terms of structuring the depressions of the basic grid of a gravure printing form and the printing behaviour of the depressions of a basic grid of an erasable and re-usable gravure printing form, by increasing the uniformity... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane LLP

20090126586 - Method and device for gravure printing using an erasable and re-usable printing form: The invention relates to a method and a device for gravure painting using an enable and re-usable printing form. The starting point of said method is a gravure printing form comprising a basic grid that is designed for the maximum quality of ink that is transferred, said grid being uniformly... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane LLP

20090126588 - Method and apparatus for manufacturing relief material for seamless printing: A workpiece 70 is set to holding rotating means and then liquid-state photosensitive resin 10 is supplied to a resin applying smoothing unit 150 to mold the workpiece 70 into a uniform thickness while rotating the workpiece 70 and applying the liquid-state photosensitive resin 10 to the outer periphery of... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090126589 - Patterning process: A patterning process, including applying pressure to and removing pressure from one or more regions of a substance to transform a phase of one or more regions of the substance, the transformed one or more regions having respective predetermined shapes representing a predetermined pattern. The patterning process can be used... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20090126590 - Method and device for producing a permanent as well as erasable image on a printing plate: A method and device for producing a permanent as well as erasable image on a printing plate, in particular within a printing press, is disclosed. A printing plate with a rewritable and erasable surface is made available. The surface of the printing plate made available is erased and a permanent... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20090126591 - Method of automatically adjusting the printing pressure in flexographic printing machines: A method of automatically adjusting the printing pressure in flexographic printing machines is disclosed. The method is applied to flexographic machines with a rotating support drum around which a series of printing units with a series of printing rollers associated to respective ink rollers are arranged, and includes carrying out... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20090120309 - In-line multi-colored clothing printer: Improvements in printing on shirts are disclosed. The shirt printer incorporates multiple elongated single color print heads arranged in-line. As opposed to using standard three or four colors, the clothing printer uses multiple heads where each print head uses a single specific color to eliminate mixing of the colors to... Agent: Buhler Associates Buhler, Kirk A.

20090120310 - Printing screens: A printing screen for use in screen printing at least one deposit of a printing medium onto a workpiece, the printing screen comprising: a first, facing sheet which includes at least one printing aperture through which a deposit of a printing medium is to be printed onto a workpiece, and... Agent: Renner Otto Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20090120311 - Roller pad printer: A roller pad printer for printing on an associated object includes a frame, a flat cliché operably mounted to the frame for receiving and a resilient roller pad operably mount to the frame for rolling contact, at a first location and in a first direction along the cliché, to receive... Agent: Levenfeld Pearlstein, LLC (illinois Tool Works)

20090120312 - Contrifugal printing apparatus and a method of printing: A printing apparatus is disclosed which comprises a rotatable member, for example a cylinder (10) ratable about its longitudinal axis (12), drive means (16) for rotating the cylinder, means (22) for feeding liquid to the circumferential (20) surface of the cylinder to form droplets (18) of the liquid thereon, and... Agent: Barnes & Thornburg LLP

20090120313 - Methods and apparatus for printing receipts and validating forms: A dual-purpose printer for printing receipts and validating forms is provided. The printer comprises a receipt drive roller for driving paper through a receipt path, a dual-purpose roller capable of contacting the drive roller, and a validation idler roller adapted to be brought into and out of engagement with the... Agent: Lipsitz & Mcallister, LLC

20090120314 - Holding apparatus: The present invention relates to a holding apparatus which is made to hold a flexible plate wound on a circumferential surface of a holder and more particularly to a holding apparatus suitable for use in the retention of a plate on a circumferential surface of a sleeve of a plate... Agent: Kanesaka Berner And Partners LLP

20090120315 - Lithographic printing method: The present invention relates to a lithographic printing method that uses inks selected from amongst yellow, magenta, cyan and black inks, the method comprising using yellow, magenta, cyan and black inks for which the number of representable colors obtained when printing the yellow, magenta, cyan and black inks with the... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20090120316 - Process for creating a unit dose product with a printed water soluble material: A process for selectively and repeatedly printing at least two graphics onto a water soluble material to create a randomized print for unit dose products.... Agent: The Procter & Gamble Company Global Legal Department - Ip

20090114106 - Tampon pad printing system and method of operating: In one embodiment, a pad printing system configured to print a work piece having at least a first print area and a second print area distal from the first print area is provided. The pad printing system may include a first print station and a second print station, wherein each... Agent: Kolisch Hartwell, P.C.

20090114107 - Printing press with a device of contactless measured data acquisition: A printing press is disclosed. The printing press includes at least one rotating reel changer, which receives the to-be-printed paper web as a roll, and a printing couple, which applies ink and dampening solution via the rotating cylinder rollers to the paper web, as well as a folding unit with... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20090114108 - Lithographic printing plate precursor and lithographic printing method: A lithographic printing plate precursor includes an image-recording layer and a protective layer containing a stratiform compound, wherein at least one of the image-recording layer and the protective layer contains a polymer containing as a repeating unit, a structural unit having an ammonium structure.... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch