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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6318266 | Ink flow rate indicator A method for providing indications for conditioning ink flow valves of at least one inking unit of a printing press. The printing area of the inking unit is divided into a multiplicity of inking zones each supplied by one ink flow valve in order to prescr... | 11/20/2001 |
| 6298780 | Plateless printing system A printing system which uses a single layer printing member coated on to a cylinder is provided. For waterless offset application, the single layer printing member consists of an oleophobic imaging layer containing an oleophobic resin, coated on an oleoph... | 10/09/2001 |
| 6181439 | Apparatus and techniques for computerized printing An integrated computerized system for use in color printing having at least one digital representation of a color characteristic of at least one page to be printed and a digital storage memory for storing the digital representation. An imposition apparatu... | 01/30/2001 |
| 6164637 | Foil remover with improved gripper A foil remover for removing one or more sheets of foil from an underlying hard surface. The foil remover includes a movable carrier and at least one gripper attached to the carrier. The gripper includes many pinching fingers, each of the fingers oriented ... | 12/26/2000 |
| 6134393 | Imaging device for standard camera bodies An imaging device for fitting to a standard camera body is provided. The device includes an imaging die mounted on a support element and a glass cover attached to the upper surface of the die. The imaging device is located along the optical axis of the ca... | 10/17/2000 |
| 6125751 | Economical duplex web printing press A duplex color web press, wherein each section, which prints both faces of the web with any one ink type and color, is configured with a single printing cylinder and, in the case of a digitally recording press, with a single recording head. The single pri... | 10/03/2000 |
| 6031932 | Automatic inspection of printing plates or cylinders A method for inspecting a surface of a printing medium, the method comprising the steps of acquiring an image of the surface or a portion thereof, digitizing the acquired image whereby a digitized real representation of the surface or portion is obtained.... | 02/29/2000 |
| 6016752 | Print image positioning A method for recording a rectangular image along helical tracks on a plate, while the plate is mounted on a cylindrical surface in an imagesetter, so that an edge of the image, corresponding to a reference edge of the plate, essentially parallels the refe... | 01/25/2000 |
| 6014471 | Apparatus and method for retouching a digital representation of a color image Apparatus and a method for semi-automatic retouching of digital images is provided. The method includes the steps of processing the digital image to obtain a list of candidate defect segments, computing statistics for a list of candidate defect segments a... | 01/11/2000 |
| 6003442 | Dynamic clamps for external drum platesetter A clamp for gripping an edge of a plate that is mounted on the surface of a rotatable drum. The clamp includes a hinge, attached to the drum and including a pivot axis, and a gripper, formed to have a tip, operative to press the edge of the plate against ... | 12/21/1999 |
| 5986819 | Plotting head with individually addressable laser diode array A compact optical system for imaging an array of light emitters, particularly an individually addressable laser diodes array, onto a recording surface, whereby the image of each emitting region is spread in the cross direction to a width approximately equ... | 11/16/1999 |
| 5969872 | Spatial light modulator illumination system A novel optical system operative to transfer, with high efficiency, optical power from a line source, such as a LDB, built from a plurality of individual light sources with different angular distribution in two orthogonal axis into a rectangular area with... | 10/19/1999 |
| 5966504 | Apparatus and method for printing A system and method for employing a digital representation of a color image to be printed in a printing system is provided. The method includes generating at least one raster representation of the color image to be printed and a run length representation ... | 10/12/1999 |
| 5956000 | Digital image display system and method A digital image display system and method for displaying a digital image in a large format are provided. The system includes a frame buffer for storing the digital image, which is projected via a plurality N of projection units. Each projection unit proje... | 09/21/1999 |
| 5946426 | Efficient upward raster conversion of rotated images A method and system for efficiently rotating an image in a first raster, by any angle, onto a second raster of much higher resolution, and also for generating a page image in a high-resolution raster from a plurality of contone images, input in lower reso... | 08/31/1999 |
| 5942137 | Method and apparatus for laser scribing grooves on hard crystals Apparatus for positioning, holding and surface processing a small dimensioned hard crystal is provided. The apparatus includes a position location jig for positioning the crystal in an x-y plane, vacuum pump apparatus for generating a vacuum to grip the c... | 08/24/1999 |
| 5934196 | Printing member and method for producing same A processless visible light insensitive, IR sensitive printing member, is provided together with a method for producing the printing member. The method includes the steps of providing a visible light sensitive printing member and the step of processing th... | 08/10/1999 |
| 5900981 | Optical system for illuminating a spatial light modulator A novel optical system operative to transfer, with high efficiency, optical power from a line source, such as a LDB, built from a plurality of individual light sources with different angular distribution in two orthogonal axis into a rectangular area with... | 05/04/1999 |
| 5894342 | Imagesetter Imaging apparatus is provided which includes a generally cylindrical drum defining a substrate support surface, a head operative to record information onto a substrate on the substrate support surface, and substrate feed and position apparatus for precise... | 04/13/1999 |
| 5875288 | Apparatus and techniques for computerized printing An integrated computerized system for use in color printing having at least one digital representation of a color characteristic of at least one page to be printed and a digital storage memory for storing the digital representation. An imposition apparatu... | 02/23/1999 |
| 5864651 | System and method for on-demand printing A system and method for on-demand printing is provided. The system includes at least one image capturing device, preferably a digital camera, which captures images during an event. The images captured by the digital cameras are transmitted to at least one... | 01/26/1999 |
| 5861904 | Image-setter for multiple media exposure An image-setter and a scanning method are disclosed. The image setter includes at least two scanning surfaces, a media conveying system for conveying at least two light sensitive media to respective ones of the scanning surfaces, and an optical system for... | 01/19/1999 |
| 5813346 | Adaptive drum balancing system An apparatus for dynamically balancing a rotating drum mounted in a fixed frame. The apparatus has at least one balancing set, each balancing set includes two weights, each of the two weights is movable along a circular track attached to the drum and subs... | 09/29/1998 |
| 5785309 | Automatic plate feeding system and method A plate feeding system for grasping and moving a plate from a stack of plates. The system includes an arm mechanism having a plate grasping member for grasping the plate and a plate interposing member for interposing between the plate and an adjacent plat... | 07/28/1998 |
| 5771794 | Paper disposal and compacting system A paper disposal and compacting apparatus capable of causing sheets of paper and other substrates to be disposed, to fold in a compact accordion like manner. The apparatus includes a first roller and a second roller adjacent and parallel to one another to... | 06/30/1998 |
| 5764381 | Internal drum recorder with array imaging An internal drum recorder images a media to a radiation pattern using an image array, which extends along a primary track, such as a helical track, and in a direction essentially perpendicular to the primary track. In one embodiment, the source of radiati... | 06/09/1998 |
| 5742743 | Apparatus and method for generating a screen reproduction of a color image including dot shape rotation Apparatus and method for screening an image for half-tone reproduction by image reproduction apparatus which includes a marking device, preferably a laser beam, which is operative to mark a medium along a multiplicity of parallel marking lines. The method... | 04/21/1998 |
| 5739819 | Method and apparatus for generating an artificial shadow in a two dimensional color image A method and apparatus for carrying out the method for generating an artificial shadow in a two dimensional color image. The method includes the steps of providing a shadow scenes library, each shadow scene representing at least one artificial shadow orie... | 04/14/1998 |
| 5699174 | Apparatus and technique for generating a screen reproduction of an image A technique for screening an image for half-tone reproduction by image reproduction apparatus including a marking device which is operative to mark a medium along a multiplicity of parallel marking lines including the steps of providing a digital represen... | 12/16/1997 |
| 5691823 | Apparatus and method for random screening Apparatus and a method for random screening including an exposure select operator which receives two-dimensional coordinate information relating to a screen and input density information relating to an image to be screened, the operator being characterize... | 11/25/1997 |
| 5691828 | Apparatus and technique for generating a screen reproduction of an image A technique for screening an image for half-tone reproduction by image reproduction apparatus including a marking device which is operative to mark a medium along a multiplicity of parallel marking lines including the steps of providing a digital represen... | 11/25/1997 |
| 5652804 | Automatic inspection of printing plates or cylinders A method for inspecting a surface of a printing medium, the method comprising the steps of acquiring an image of the surface or a portion thereof, digitizing the acquired image whereby a digitized real representation of the surface or portion is obtained.... | 07/29/1997 |
| 5650076 | Laser plotter A laser plotter having the ability to cut registration holes while the medium is in a plotting location within the laser plotter is disclosed. The plotter includes laser plotting apparatus and laser cutting apparatus whose axes of rotation are identical. ... | 07/22/1997 |
| 5636330 | Method and apparatus for creating a control strip A control strip including an analog representation of a control color image useful in controlling the reproduction of a main color image, characterized in that the analog representation of the control color image was provided by the method of providing a ... | 06/03/1997 |
| 5623001 | Ink compositions and a method for making same UV curable ink-jet inks for continuous ink-jet printing and drop on demand (DOD) ink-jet printing are provided which are preferably applied to substrates capable of absorbing part of an ink droplet applied thereupon. The ink compositions of the present in... | 04/22/1997 |
| 5615282 | Apparatus and techniques for processing of data such as color images A method and apparatus for adapting a digital representation of a first color image for output representation by an output device having spatial and color characteristics are disclosed. The apparatus includes apparatus for modifying the spatial characteri... | 03/25/1997 |
| 5608822 | Apparatus and method for generating half-tone dot in image reproduction This invention discloses an improved method and apparatus for generating a screened reproduction of an image. The apparatus comprises a matrix defining an arrangement of a plurality of areas within a printing dot, each having an assigned reference value. ... | 03/04/1997 |
| 5600448 | Apparatus and method for generating a screened reproduction of an image An apparatus is disclosed for generating a screened reproduction of an image having a scanner and a CPU receiving input density values of an original and coordinate information and storing screening information for providing an operating input to a plotte... | 02/04/1997 |
| 5592309 | Multiple lens separation scanner A color separation scanner comprising a support arranged for mounting thereon of a two-dimensional image to be scanned and color separation sensing apparatus arranged for sensing the two-dimensional image. The color separation apparatus includes a scannin... | 01/07/1997 |
| 5579115 | Scanning apparatus for scanning a partially supported media A scanning system which includes a medium support unit for supporting a medium in a generally curved orientation by contacting substantially less than the entire surface area of the medium and a scanning unit for scanning the medium.... | 11/26/1996 |
