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Printing May archived by USPTO category 05/12

20120132092 - Improvements in or relating to printing: A printing form precursor comprises a printing surface which comprises an inorganic metal compound, the printing surface being hydrophobic and capable of being made hydrophilic by energy but capable of becoming hydrophobic again, for reuse, if desired. An associated method of printing includes steps of subjecting the printing surface imagewise... Agent: J P Imaging Limited

20120132093 - Image transfer blanket: An image transfer blanket usable with an image forming apparatus includes a main blanket body, a plurality of release layers configured to receive and transfer an image, each release layer disposed across from opposites sides of the main blanket body, and a plurality of soft layers configured to conform to... Agent:

20120132094 - Printing plate sleeve loading and unloading apparatus and method: A device and method are described for the easy and rapid loading and unloading of flexographic sleeves from flexographic processing machines. The device includes internal chucks that hold on to the end of a sleeve or sleeve adapter. The chucks are rotatably mounted within a flexographic processing machine to permit... Agent:

20120132095 - Doctor blade assembly: Doctor blade assembly for rotogravure printing units, having a support structure for a doctor blade, a holding device of the support structure and a moving device for moving the holding device. The holding device includes a mounting suitable to fix either a chambered doctor blade or a non-chambered doctor blade... Agent: Bobst Group Italia S.p.a.

20120125211 - Method for producing catalyst layers for fuel cells: P

20120125212 - Variable identification stamp: An identification stamp comprises a housing (1, 2) having a transferrable marking (11) at the housing end face and an adjustment element (3) which is inserted in the housing (1, 2) in an adjustable manner and which is provided with a transferrable marking (31) at its end face. When the... Agent: Opitz Gmbh

20120125213 - Cliche and manufacturing method for the same: Provided is a cliche and a method of manufacturing the cliche which can increase or maximize productivity and production yield. The manufacturing method of the cliche includes providing a substrate, forming organic patterns protruding on the substrate, and forming an ink absorption layer on the organic patterns or on the... Agent: Electronics And Telecommunications Research Institute

20120125214 - Offset printer: Provided is an offset printer configured to increase or maximize productivity and yield. The offset printer includes a printing roller, a coating unit configured to apply a printing substance to the printing roller, a patterning unit configured to pattern the printing substance applied to the printing roller from the coating... Agent: Electronics And Telecommunications Research Institute

20120125215 - Roll printing apparatus: According to example embodiments, a roll printing apparatus includes a cleaning device in which a cleaning nozzle unit and a spray nozzle unit are integrated so that both a reverse offset process and a cliche cleaning process may be achieved in the roll printing apparatus. The roll printing apparatus may... Agent: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

20120125216 - Methods of processing using silicate-free developer compositions: wherein the recurring units of Structure (Ib) are present in an amount of at least 25 and up to and including 60 mol %, all based on total recurring units in the polymer binder, and R2 is a substituted or unsubstituted hydroxyaryl group in which the hydroxyl group is ortho... Agent:

20120125217 - Automated lenticular photographic system: An automated lenticular photographic system includes an interface that permits a user to upload image files and image processing and printing equipment that is in communication with the interface for receiving the uploaded image files and processing the uploaded image files to create an interlaced print image file that is... Agent: Tracer Imaging LLC

20120118180 - Magnetic roll: A roll for supporting at least a first flexible printing, embossing, or sheet cutting die plate, the roll including a cylindrical body having a rotational axis and an outer circumferential surface, the cylindrical body being divided into segments; a first magnet receiving concavity and magnet combination emitting plate attaching magnetic... Agent: Bunting Magnetics Co.

20120118181 - Disc driving apparatus: A disc driving apparatus includes: a recording and reproducing unit for recording or reproducing an information signal; and a print unit for performing printing to the printing surface of the disc-shaped recording medium. The print unit includes a print head contacting the printing surface when performing printing, a head feeding... Agent:

20120118182 - Method of making a relief image: A relief (or flexographic) printing precursor has first and second radiation-sensitive layers, or a plurality of radiation-sensitive layers. The first radiation-sensitive layer is sensitive to a first imaging radiation having a first λmax. The second radiation-sensitive layer is disposed on the first radiation-sensitive layer and is sensitive to a second... Agent:

20120118184 - Foil transfer device having a variable guide system: A transfer device for transferring a transfer layer to a printing material includes a transfer module disposed above a basic module. A guide system provides a way of easily and safely moving the transfer module within the foil transfer device or to a further foil transfer device in the same... Agent: Heidelberger Druckmaschinen Ag

20120118183 - Roller rotary offset printing press having at least one coating unit with a chamber blade and an anilox roller: A roller rotary offset printing press has at least one coating unit and at least one printing unit. The coating unit comprises at least one coating unit and at least one printing unit. The coating unit comprises at least one chamber blade having a water-based coating and at least one... Agent: Koenig & Bauer Aktiengesellschaft

20120118185 - Sheet-fed perfecting printing press without sheet reversal: A sheet-fed, rotary, printing press for printing on both sides of sheets without a sheet reversing device, includes printing units having a modular construction. Each module includes at least a plate cylinder, a blanket cylinder, an impression cylinder, a transfer cylinder and at least one drive wheel. Modules for printing... Agent: Heidelberger Druckmaschinen Ag

20120118186 - Lateral correcting device and prining press: A lateral register correcting device includes, a first adjusting unit that comprises a plurality of the pressing members arranged in a central area in the width direction of the web, a second adjusting unit that comprises one or more of the pressing members arranged in an outer area in the... Agent: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Printing & Packaging Machinery, Ltd.

20120118187 - Method of removing a printing plate from a plate cylinder of a printing press: A method of removing a printing plate, each having leading and trailing edges located in respective lock-up slots in a plate cylinder of a printing press, from said plate cylinder, is disclosed. The method comprises the steps of extracting a first of said leading and trailing edges, rotating the plate... Agent: Goss Graphic Systems Limited

20120111209 - Arrangement and method for processing a paper web, in particular a cigarette paper web: The invention relates to an arrangement for processing a paper web having a low surface area density not exceeding 70 g/m2, in particular a cigarette paper web, comprising: an input side, over which the paper web is fed into the arrangement; an output side, over which the paper web leaves... Agent: Delfortgroup Ag

20120111210 - Ink cup: A pad printing system for applying ink to an object includes an ink-vessel including a pressure plate; a shaft; and an ink-releasable member. The pressure plate moves linearly along the shaft based on a rotational force applied to the plate. The pad printing system may include a mounting portion; an... Agent: Nike Inc.

20120111211 - Photosensitive letterpress printing original plate: The present invention provides a photosensitive letterpress printing original plate provided with a heat sensitive mask layer having high light blocking effect and durability yet prepared as a thin film. A photosensitive letterpress printing original plate including at least (A) a supporting member, (B) a photosensitive resin layer, and (C)... Agent: Toyo Boseki Kanushiki Kaisha

20120111212 - Apparatus and methods for controlling application of a substance to a substrate: Apparatus and methods for controlling application of a substance to a substrate involve the use of a functional agent that blocks the substance from or attracts the principal substance to the substrate. The apparatus and methods may utilize ink jet technology to apply the functional agent directly to the substrate... Agent: Moore Wallace North America, Inc.

20120111213 - Process for the production of decorated solid parts from a transfer film and a fixture for facilitating the process: A process for adhering a decorative pattern to a flat or multi-dimensional solid involves a heat transfer powder that is sprayed or brushed onto the surface to which the image is to be applied. A design in sublimate ink is placed on a transfer film. The ink particles convert directly... Agent: Royston, LLC

20120111214 - Processless development of printing plate: On-press development of an imaged printing plate on a plate cylinder, in which ink is applied by an ink form roll, a blanket roll is in contact with the plate, a rubber roll is opposed to the blanket roll, and printable media passes between the blanket roll and the rubber... Agent: Anocoil Corporation

20120111215 - Method for pasty ink flexography printing associated to ink load variation due to thermal modulation: The present invention refers to a “Method for pasty ink flexography printing associated to ink load variation due to thermal modulation” developed to allow a novel printing technology in central drum flexography equipments with high viscosity inks and 100% solids with later UV radiation (UV) or electron beam (EB) curing.... Agent:

20120103210 - Nail print apparatus and print control method: Disclosed is a nail print apparatus including a storage unit in which a plurality of sets of data relating to a plurality of design parts constituting each of a plurality of design images are stored, a photographing unit which obtains a finger image by photographing a finger, a nail region... Agent: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.

20120103211 - Method of imaging in crystalline colloidal arrays: A method of printing an image that diffracts radiation is disclosed. The method includes assembling an ordered periodic array of particles on a substrate, wherein the array of particles diffracts radiation in a wavelength band dependent on viewing angle; printing an imaging composition onto a portion of the array in... Agent: Ppg Industries Ohio, Inc.

20120103212 - Variable data lithography system: A variable data lithography system includes an improved imaging member, a dampening solution subsystem, a patterning subsystem, an inking subsystem, and an image transfer subsystem. The imaging member comprises a reimageable surface layer comprising a polymer, the reimageable surface having a surface roughness Ra in the range of 0.10-4.0 μm... Agent: Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated

20120103213 - Ink rheology control subsystem for a variable data lithography system: A subsystem for controlling the rheology of ink applied to an imaging surface of a variable data lithography system comprises an ink reservoir, an ink application subsystem for applying ink from the ink reservoir over the imaging surface at a first ink temperature, and an ink complex viscoelastic modulus control... Agent: Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated

20120103214 - Heated inking roller for a variable data lithography system: An inking subsystem for a variable data digital lithography system comprises a first ink roller disposed to receive ink on a surface thereof, the ink being provided from an ink reservoir such that it may be provided by the first ink roller to a reimageable surface of said variable data... Agent: Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated

20120103215 - Varnishing or printing plate: A varnishing or printing plate includes a support layer, a varnish or ink transfer layer and a filling layer interposed between the support layer and the varnish or ink transfer layer. The filling layer comprises a plurality of sublayers connected together in succession so as to form the filling layer... Agent:

20120103216 - Multiple-layer flat structure in the form of a printing blanket or a printing plate for flexographic and letterpress printing with laser engraving: The invention is directed to a multiple-layer flat structure (1) in the form of a printing blanket or a printing plate for flexographic and letterpress printing with: a printing layer (2) which is made from a polymeric material and is provided with laser engraving; at least one compressible layer (3);... Agent:

20120103217 - Cleaning subsystem for a variable data lithography system: An cleaning subsystem for a variable data lithography system includes a first cleaning member having a conformable adhesive surface disposed for physical contact with an imaging member such that residual ink remaining on the imaging member, such as following transfer of an inked latent image from the imaging member to... Agent: Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated

20120103219 - Ink transfer subsystem for a variable data lithography system: An improved imaging member for a variable data lithography system comprises a reimageable surface layer comprising a polymer, the reimageable surface having a surface roughness Ra in the range of 0.10-4.0 μm peak-to-valley, and peak-to-valley nearest neighbor average distances finer than 20 μm. A structural mounting layer may be provided... Agent: Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated

20120103218 - Method of ink rheology control in a variable data lithography system: Methods for controlling the rheology of ink applied to an imaging surface of a variable data lithography system include applying ink in a layer with a first complex viscoelastic modulus such that said ink layer readily separates in regions over the imaging surface covered by a dampening solution and into... Agent: Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated

20120103220 - Lithographic printing plate precursor: A lithographic printing plate precursor which is capable of undergoing on-press development by supplying at least one of printing ink and dampening water and includes a support and an image-recording layer, wherein the image-recording layer contains at least one of compounds represented by the formulae (1) to (3) as defined... Agent:

20120103221 - Cleaning method for a variable data lithography system: An cleaning method for a variable data lithography system employs a first cleaning member having a conformable adhesive surface disposed for physical contact with an imaging member such that residual ink remaining on the imaging member, such as following transfer of an inked latent image from the imaging member to... Agent: Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated

20120103222 - 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: Sony Corporation