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| 7954477 | Diesel cycle internal combustion engine A diesel cycle internal combustion engine can be operated with a variety of fuels having different boiling points and different viscosity-temperature characteristic curves, with a fuel circuit that includes a fuel tank, a fuel pump, a fuel line, at least one fuel fi... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7398732 | Method for determining an image area to be exposed on a printing plate A method for aligning a printing plate, prior to imaging, on a platesetter includes the steps of: determining a leading edge of the printing plate; feeding the printing plate by the leading edge onto punch equipment resident on the platesetter; centering the printin... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7349121 | Method for automatically determining an imposition plan A method for automatically determining an optimal imposition plan for printing and folding a product, the method including (a) calculating a plurality of imposition plans from a given set of input data including product specification data of the product, printing pr... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7348111 | Reduction of imaging artifacts in a platesetter having a diffractive modulator A platesetter may have an optical imaging head which includes a diffractive modulator having individually controlled ribbons associated with individual pixels imaged onto a printing plate. One method for reducing artifacts transferred to a medium includes the steps ... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7342685 | Constraint correlation for computer to plate inkjet system Printing masters are produced by use of an inkjet printing system. The smallest halftone dot size which can be printed by the inkjet printing system is larger than the size of a pixel of the recording grid defined by the addressability of the printing device.... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7333766 | Colour proofer with curl control means A large format printer using web fed material is able to cope with roll fed material and sheets having residual curl. An anti-curl guidance device counteracts curl when feeding the medium to a second transport system. The medium is held flat by a vacuum system and d... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7268910 | Just-in-time raster image assembly A print drive is present in an electronic pre-press workflow that includes a raster image processor (“RIP”) and an output device to receive, store, combine and transmit raster data processed by the raster image processor. A prepress imposition scheme is created ... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7265870 | Colour separation method Separation of a color into values for colorants in colorant space can be done easily when color correction and color separation are done in separate steps, where the color is defined as a set of values in a trajectory space, and trajectories include points for which... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7262878 | System and method for calibrating an imaging system during imaging An imaging system is disclosed for imaging recording media. The imaging system includes an input opening through which recording media may be input to the imaging system, and an imaging unit for imaging the recording media that is received through the input opening.... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7262881 | Method to determine a characteristic of a printing system A method and a system for determining a characteristic of a printing system, the printing system including a printing device and a receiving substrate. Data from a pattern printed on the receiving substrate by the printing device are analyzed. Based on the analysis,... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7242487 | Print driver system having a user interface and a method for processing raster data A system and method for processing raster data including at least one input computer terminal for creating postscript data, at least one raster image processor (RIP), for processing the postscript data into raster data, and a PrintDrive system for managing and contr... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7231096 | Screening method for overlapping sub-images A method and system for reproducing an image on a carrier, the method includes: generating a conjoined first and second sub-image, each representative for a portion of the image; defining an overlap region where both sub-images give a contribution to the internal op... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7229146 | System and method for characterizing a printing device A method is used for constructing a look up table for characterizing a printing device, and a system therefore, wherein the look up table is an inverse look up table for obtaining for the printing device colorant values in a colorant space as a function of given col... | 06/12/2007 |
| D539841 | Industrial ink-jet press for screen printing | 04/03/2007 |
| 7199903 | Method and device for determining the color appearance of color overprints A method and apparatus to predict the color of an overprint of a set of colorants at a set of respective coverage percentages on a substrate of a substrate type using a printing technique. The colorants include some for which a device profile is provided. The method... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7196828 | Scanner having a vertical rest position A scanner having a chassis and a body, the body containing a base portion and a document lid. The body is movably connected to the chassis by a connection element, allowing the body to move from a substantially horizontal operative position to a substantially vertic... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7168778 | Printhead cartridge A printhead cartridge for a multi-printhead ink jet printer includes an array of ink jet nozzles and a heat sink for controlling the temperature of the nozzles. The heat sink is made up of a copper block and thinner copper wing regions extending from the block paral... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7168794 | Ink supply system An ink supply system for feeding ink from an ink cartridge to an inkjet printer includes a dry-break valve system and two coupling elements. Preferably use is made of a hollow tappet rod as a coupling element. The valves in the system are automatically opened in a s... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7170640 | Adequate quantisation in multilevel halftoning The method reproduces an electronic image, having pixels, as a multilevel halftone image on a multilevel output device having N different allowed output values (possible density levels) by choosing for any pixel p a real subset S | 01/30/2007 |
| 7170641 | Method of generating medium resolution proofs from high resolution image data A method provides for determining an optimal sample dimension when descreening high-resolution image data so that a lower resolution image color proof may be created without suffering the problems typical of over sampling image data. The method allows to generate a ... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7159962 | Wiper assembly for inkjet printer A wiper assembly is used to mount large size wiper blades for use in industrial inkjet printers. In order to provide an even wiping action over the length of a print head the wiper is sideways clamped in a rigid wiper blade holder and held in place by a clamping blo... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7152946 | Method and device for printing grey scale images at high printing speed and image quality The present invention relates to ink jet printing, and more particularly to a method of printing and an apparatus for providing images having grey levels of varying intensity. The present invention provides a method and device for printing grey scale images o... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7128382 | Calibration of a multilevel inkjet process A multilevel printing process can be calibrated by: measuring a small number of recorded patches obtaining data points characterising the printing process, modeling a gradation of the printing process with a model curve incorporating different gradation behaviour of... | 10/31/2006 |
| D531206 | Industrial wide-format ink-jet printer | 10/31/2006 |
| 7123380 | Method and a device for determining multi-ink color separations A method to convert a color provided in a first color space into a color in a second color space defined by more than four colorants and a reproduction process. The method includes converting the color into a third color space, determining which of a set of gamut vo... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7110588 | Retrospective correction of inhomogeneities in radiographs Several methods for retrospective correction of intensity inhomogeneites in digital diagnostic radiation images are presented. The methods are based on the correction of a digital image representation by means of a bias field. The bias field is deduced from the digi... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7093925 | Method and device for printing with a uniform printing medium transport distance A printing method and apparatus is disclosed for printing an image on a printing medium by means of a printing head having a first number n of marking elements, the method includes printing the image as a set of N sub-images, N being a number C of colours used for p... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7095034 | Image carrier for storing X-ray information, and a system and method for processing an image carrier The invention relates to an image carrier for the storage of X-ray information, and includes an electronic memory in which data can be stored. In order to reduce the danger of loss of data it is envisaged that the image carrier comprises a mark that represents at le... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7079233 | System and method for determining the alignment quality in an illumination system that includes an illumination modulator An alignment detection system is disclosed for determining whether a modulated illumination field in an imaging system employing an illumination modulator is mis-aligned. The alignment detection system includes a modulator adjustment unit for providing a test patter... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7063403 | Coated wiper for inkjet printer Wipers of a wiper assembly in an inkjet printer are coated with an anti-wetting coating on at least one side so that, due to the anti-wetting properties, less ink adheres to the side of the wiper, the wiper needs less cleaning, and the wiper is less worn by scraping... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7065235 | Radiographic scoring method In a method for radiographic scoring of a radiographic image at least one region of interest is determined. Each of the determined regions of interest is displayed in close proximity to a number of reference stages each having an associated score. For each region of... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7038802 | Flexible networked image processing A networked imaging system, includes first and second communications networks, and first and second storage devices respectively interconnected to the first and second networks. A first image processor, interconnected to the first network, generates first image data... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7036900 | Printing method and apparatus for back-up of defective marking elements A dot matrix printer and printing method for being able to print a dot matrix on a printing medium using a plurality of marking elements on a printing head is described. A set of combinations of firing order of the plurality of marking elements is determined as well... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7032520 | Compact printing apparatus and method A printing apparatus (10) for printing an image on a receiving substrate (20) including ink application means (11) for imagewise applying liquid side of the receiving substrate; a drying section (12) for drying the receiving substrate aft... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7025437 | Printing methods and apparatus for mutually interstitial printing and optional interlacing A dot matrix printing method is provided for printing an image on a printing medium with a printing head and having an array of equally spaced marking elements. The marking elements are spaced apart by a distance “x” in a slow scan direction and there is a first... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7023461 | Deconvolution scheme for reducing cross-talk during an in the line printing sequence The present invention relates to a method for reducing or eliminating cross-talk when operating a thermal print head for printing one line on a recording medium. Energizable heater elements of a thermal print head are drivable with at least one activation pul... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7012766 | Imaging system and method employing off-axis illumination of an illumination modulator An imaging system includes a first off-axis illumination source for providing a first illumination field at a surface of an illumination modulator such that when the modulator is in a first non-activated mode a zero-order reflected illumination field is directed tow... | 03/14/2006 |
| 7004717 | Plate cassette loader for platesetter A plate cassette loader for a platesetter comprises a cassette holder for receiving a cassette, containing a stack of plates. A cassette inverter then rotates this cassette to a feed position in which the plates can be fed into the imaging engine of the platesetter.... | 02/28/2006 |
| 7005655 | Storage phosphor panel for storing image information and X-ray cassette A storage phosphor panel for storing image information and an X-ray cassette with such a storage phosphor panel are proposed. The storage phosphor panel contains a carrier layer and a storage phosphor layer, which is applied on the carrier layer. The storage phospho... | 02/28/2006 |
| 6998633 | Device and method for reading out information stored in a storage layer A device and method for reading out information stored in a storage layer using a receiving device. The storage layer is supported on a support surface that is defined by an x-y plane and a relative movement is generated between the receiving device and the storage ... | 02/14/2006 |
