Printing inventions 07/09

20090188399 - Marking device: A marking device comprises an outer shell in a cylindrical shape with a bottom surface attached to a molding device, a rotatable tube provided inside of the outer shell, an indicator connecting to the bottom of the outer shell and a support mechanism pushing up the rotatable tube from the... Agent: Curtis L. Harrington

20090188400 - Method for generating color information, such as motifs, on a substrate made of glass in particular: The invention relates to a method for generating color information, such as motifs, on a substrate (16) made in particular of glass, in which a ceramic ink (17) is applied to the entire surface of one side (14) of the substrate (16). In this method, after the drying of the... Agent: Striker, Striker & Stenby

20090188401 - Apparatus and method for conditioning dampening solution for an offset printing press, dampening system and offset printing press: An apparatus and a method for conditioning dampening solution for an offset printing press, include a cation exchanger for the removal of salt-forming ions from the dampening solution. The operation of the cation exchanger leaves the pH of the dampening solution unchanged. The apparatus includes a control device based on... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20090188402 - Circumferential register for a rotary press: A registration system for a rotary press including circumferential and sidelay registers designed to interface to the press unit using more direct motion translation. In particular, to go from rotational motion of a motor to linear motion of the adjustment with fewer transitions. Also discussed are measurement systems which measure... Agent: Lewis, Rice & Fingersh, Lc Attn: BoxIPDept.

20090188403 - Method and apparatus of controlling quality of printed image for color printing press: A method and an apparatus of the present invention is capable of matching an image of a printed matter with a desired image with high accuracy by adjusting tints even when tints change while printing. There are provided a measurement means that measures gray Lab values of a printed matter,... Agent: Tips Group C/o Intellevate LLC

20090188404 - Hat pallet for digital image printing: A hat pallet for use in a printer which prints an image onto a hat of the type having a cap and a bill attached thereto includes a bottom plate and a top plate mountable in a closed position over the bottom plate. The bottom plate includes a printing plate... Agent: Vista Print Usa, Inc. Attn: Patent Counsel

20090188405 - Printing machine and a method for producing a printed product: A printing machine is provided with at least one printing unit that is usable for printing an image, in ink, on a printable material. The printing machine includes at least one application device which is usable to apply at least one contactless identification characteristic, in the form of an RFID... Agent: Jones, Tullar & Cooper, P.C.

20090183643 - Structure of roller imprinting apparatus: A roller imprinting apparatus avoiding the drawbacks of deformation of the imprinting apparatus, incomplete imprint and side collapse upon mold stripping is disclosed to include a plurality of transmission rollers respectively spaced from one another at a distance, an imprinting belt extending around the transmission rollers and carrying one or... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20090183644 - Ink wiping system for a printing machine: The system comprises a wiping tank (1), a wiping roller (2) rotatably supported in the wiping tank and having a circumferential surface and cleaning means for cleaning the surface of the wiping roller, said cleaning means comprising at least a first spray unit (4) for spraying clean wiping solution against... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20090183645 - Stamping device: An object of the invention is to provide a stamping device which can easily conceal personal information written or printed by stamping a pattern on a portion where the personal information is written or printed. According to the invention, there is provided a stamping device comprising a rectangular stamping block... Agent: The Marbury Law Group, PLLC

20090183646 - Printing press: A printing press includes an assembly and a cam mechanism for moving at least one part of the assembly. A cam of the cam mechanism has a curvature course with points, in particular bends or jumps, which are not constantly differentiable within a movement region of the cam. The cam... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20090183647 - Imageable elements with coalescing core-shell particles: Single layer IR-sensitive negative-working imageable elements include thermally coalesceable core-shell particles without a polymeric binder in an imageable layer. Thermal imaging causes coalescence of the particles in imaged regions while non-imaged regions can be removed with plain water or an aqueous solution containing an acidic polymer.... Agent: Andrew J. Anderson Patent Legal Staff

20090178581 - Foil stamping machine: This hot stamping machine comprises a stamping member, which is intended to press a stamping foil against the peripheral surface of individual articles in order to stamp said articles, the individual articles being positioned successively into a stamping position and stamped by a stamping sequence which is repeated far each... Agent: Ralph A. Dowell Of Dowell & Dowell P.C.

20090178582 - Printing apparatus: A printing apparatus for printing discrete sheets includes a plurality of offset printing units arranged in sequence along an advancing direction of the discrete sheets, a screen-printing unit for supporting the discrete sheets, and a device for applying a flowable material to the discrete sheets. Each screen-printing unit includes a... Agent: Laubscher & Laubscher, P.C.

20090178583 - Pad printing system with independent and variable compression device: A pad printing system includes a doctor assembly comprising a cliché, an ink cup, and a variable hold down force system configured to apply a variable force to the ink cup and doctor assembly responsive to a direction of travel.... Agent: Cardinal Law Group

20090178584 - Printing machine nip checking system and program: An object is to provide a printing machine nip checking system and the like that facilitates a nip checking operation. In the invention, a subject roller selecting section 10 is provided that selects a roller of which a nip width is to be checked. When a subject is narrowed, a... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20090173243 - System for book printing and assembly using a pre-bound page block: A printing apparatus configured to print on the pages of a block of printable pages that are pre-bound by a binding along a binding-edge of each page. The pages of the block are arranged in two interconnected stacks that are joined by the flexible binding. Printing is performed on the... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20090173244 - Method of determining a pattern position in a gold foil printer: The pattern position determining method includes the steps of: preparing a transparent film on which latticed holes are indicated as in an upper mold on which latticed fixing holes are formed; placing the transparent film on printing paper; placing a gold foil printing pattern forming film on the transparent film,... Agent: Berenato, White & Stavish, LLC

20090173245 - Method for manufacturing screen printing mask with resin and screen printing mask with resin: The method for making a screen printing mask, provided by this invention is a method for making a resin-formed screen printing mask having a resin layer on one main surface of a screen printing mask having openings, a resin layer having openings nearly in the same locations as those of... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.

20090173246 - Web printing press and method for controlling print-to-cut and circumferential register: A method for controlling the print-to-cut register in a web printing press having at least one print unit printing a web, each print unit having at least one drive driving the print unit independently of the other print units. The method includes presetting a web compensator position so as to... Agent: Davidson, Davidson & Kappel, LLC

20090173247 - Printing press cylinder: A printing press cylinder is disclosed. The cylinder includes a lock-up channel extending in an axial direction of the cylinder, where a clamping piece is accommodated in the lock-up channel to clamp a plate on a surface area of the printing press cylinder. The clamping piece includes first feed slants... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20090165660 - Liquid coating machine: A rotary screen printing press, which includes a rotary screen cylinder for coating ink on a sheet transported by transport means, and a plate or forme replacing work space whose upper side is closed, with respect to which a transport direction of the sheet is restrained by other device and... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090165661 - Method and device for printing solar cells by screen printing: A method and device for printing solar cells by screen printing is provided. During the pressure movement of the doctor blade, the printing screen is raised at the end thereof which at the rear with respect to the doctor blade movement direction during printing in order to maintain a screen... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20090165662 - Bridge mandrels for anilox and print roller applications and techniques for making them: A bridge mandrel for use on a printing press, an example of which includes making an inner tube laid up with a compressible foam layer between wound glass fiber layers, an outer tube wound with carbon fiber, steel end caps, and a pneumatic system for delivering air to the surface... Agent: Vern Maine & Associates

20090165663 - Methods and apparatus to identify pages to be discarded in a print system: Methods and apparatus for adding pages to a sequence of imprinted images used for flushing of inkjet features and then discarding the added pages following imprinting of the added pages. Features and aspects hereof within a printing system automatically insert additional pages (flush pages) in a sequence of imprinted page.... Agent: Duft Bornsen & Fishman, LLP