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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 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 f... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120079954 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR SETTING AT LEAST TWO CYLINDERS OF A PRINTING MACHINE AGAINST EACH OTHER A printing machine with at least one inking unit which has at least two cylinders which are set against each other during the printing operation and can be rotated by at least one drive. The printing machine is provided with sensors for recording parameters of the rotar... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120067239 | TURNING OR SHIFTING WEB IN PRINTER A method for turning or laterally shifting a web in a printing machine includes guiding the web successively around four rollers. Roller 2 is rotated with respect to roller 1 by about 90°, so that a strand of the web extending between the first and second... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120067237 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING INFORMATION ABOUT PRINTING PLATES TO BE MANUFACTURED FOR A NEW PRODUCTION OF A PRINTING PRESS A method and an apparatus are used for providing information about printing plates to be manufactured for a new production of a printing press. A point of use of at least one of the printing plates is visualized on a display. Several different positions exist at the poi... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120067238 | 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 f... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120024174 | PRINTING PRESS AND METHOD FOR POSITIONING CYLINDERS THEREIN The present invention provides a printing press. The printing press includes a frame, a plate cylinder, a plate cylinder support supporting the plate cylinder, a blanket cylinder for receiving an image from the plate cylinder, a blanket cylinder support supporting the b... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20110315031 | WEB PRINTING SYSTEMS HAVING SYSTEM RESONANCE TUNER A method and apparatus herein supply one or more media characteristics of a continuous media material (such as printing media) being supplied to rollers of an apparatus (such as a printing apparatus). The method and apparatus adjust the position of at least one of the r... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110297028 | CONTACT PRESSURE ADJUSTING METHOD AND CONTACT PRESSURE ADJUSTING APPARATUS FOR PRINTING PRESS A contact pressure adjusting method and a contact pressure adjusting apparatus for a printing press, which can adjust a contact pressure automatically and always highly accurately without the influence of mechanical oscillations (disturbance such as noise), are provided... | 12/08/2011 |
| 20110297026 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR CONTROLLING THE REGISTER SETTINGS OF A PRINTING PRESS A method for controlling register settings of a printing press, includes rotating imaging cylinders of a first print unit and a second print unit, located downstream of the first print unit in a movement direction of a print medium, at a rotational speed to print an ima... | 12/08/2011 |
| 20110290135 | METHOD OF FURTHER INSERTING A PARTIALLY INSERTED LEADING AND/OR TRAILING EDGE OF A PRINTING PLATE INTO RESPECTIVE LOCK-UP SLOTS IN A PLATE CYLINDER OF A PRINTING PRESS A method of further inserting a partially inserted leading and/or trailing edge of a printing plate into respective lock-up slots in a plate cylinder of a printing press to allow register slots in said edges to engage with lateral pins or a register mechanism in said lo... | 12/01/2011 |
| 20110290136 | LITHOGRAPHIC APPARATUS AND MANUFACTURING METHOD OF COMMODITIES The present invention provides a lithographic apparatus includes a first detection unit for detecting a first mark formed on an original and a second mark formed in each of a plurality of shot regions on a substrate, a second detection unit for detecting the second mark... | 12/01/2011 |
| 20110277645 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CALCULATING REGISTRATION ERROR OF A ROTARY DIE A rotary die apparatus and method for determining a registration error of a pattern applied to a strip of material by a rotary die. The rotary die apparatus may comprise the rotary die and a control system which senses signals from a sensor and a rotary encoder to deter... | 11/17/2011 |
| 20110265676 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ADJUSTING AND CONTROLLING A PRINTING MACHINE BY EMPLOYING MINUTE MARKS A method for registering a press machine including printing stations, each including a plate roller with a printing plate. Each printing plate includes a microdot engraving. The method includes displacing the plate rollers with respect to each other for scattering them,... | 11/03/2011 |
| 20110265674 | PRINT ARRANGEMENT Print arrangement, comprising a first roll, a transport surface, a nip between the first roll and the transport surface through which, at least during printing, a substrate is threaded, a drive system arranged to change a width of the nip, and a lateral stretch member a... | 11/03/2011 |
| 20110168042 | Variable Oscillating Web Printing Press and Method A printing press is provided that includes a printing section including at least one printing unit printing images on a web and at least one compensator unit for varying the direction of travel of the web in the printing section during operation of the at least one prin... | 07/14/2011 |
| 20110155006 | INTERLOCKING PRINTING SLEEVES A printing sleeve mandrel assembly for use in a rotary printing press is disclosed. The printing sleeve mandrel assembly includes a mandrel having an outer circumference and a plurality of printing sleeves each operable to be removeably disposed along the outer circumfe... | 06/30/2011 |
| 20110146512 | PRINTING PRESS WITH SEVERAL INKING UNITS The invention describes a printing press (1) comprising at least one impression cylinder (2), which comprises a first and a second front side and to which at least two inking systems (6a . . . 6j) each having a print roller are ... | 06/23/2011 |
| 20110132216 | STACK ANGLE COMPENSATION ARRANGEMENT FOR A SKEWING ADJUSTMENT SYSTEM IN AN OFFSET PRINTING PRESS A stack angle compensation arrangement is disclosed. This arrangement is for use with a skewing adjustment system in an offset printing press unit that is configured and disposed for receiving plate and blanket cylinders of various diameters. The arrangement keeps the r... | 06/09/2011 |
| 20110126729 | REGISTER APPARATUS OF PRINTING PRESS AND REGISTER METHOD FOR PRINTING PRESS In a printing press including a printing section to print patterns, a register apparatus captures an image of register marks printed in the printing section, and causes positions of the patterns, which are to be printed in the printing section, to be in register on the ... | 06/02/2011 |
| 20110100241 | PAD PRINTING MACHINE A pad printing machine (1) to print an object (8) in at least two stages, said machine comprising at least one printing pad (6) to print said object and at least two printing plate zones (10) within each of which a printing plate (14) ... | 05/05/2011 |
| 20110067587 | Multi-functional maintenance friendly pitch-changing apparatus A printing press is provided. The printing press includes a print unit printing a plurality of printed products, the plurality of printed products being formed into a stream downstream of the print unit. The printing press also includes at least one base and a press com... | 03/24/2011 |
| 20110011292 | Method for Changing Edition on a Rotary Press A method for successive printing of a first print job and a second print job on the same web using at least one printing group of the rotary press to print the first print job and the second print job is provided. The printing group includes at least a plate cylinder, a... | 01/20/2011 |
| 20110000387 | Print Unit having Blanket Cylinder Throw-off Bearer Surfaces and Method An offset print unit includes a plate cylinder having an end, a rotatable plate cylinder support supporting the end and having a first bearing surface, a blanket cylinder having a blanket cylinder end, a rotatable blanket cylinder support supporting the end and having a... | 01/06/2011 |
| 20100326301 | Variable Ink Metering and Delivery System for Flexographic Printing A method for flexographic printing includes applying a control value to an ink pumping and control system responsive to the control value, where the control value sets an operating mode of the ink pumping and control system. Ink is pumped according to the set operating ... | 12/30/2010 |
| 20100313780 | REGISTER CONTROL METHOD AND PRINTING PRESS A register control method and printing press capable of preventing wasted paper and improving cost effectiveness by improving detection of a register mark is provided. A position of a register mark printed on a web before starting printing is predicted. A plate cylinder... | 12/16/2010 |
| 20100277539 | PRINTING POSITION ALIGNMENT METHOD AND PRINTING APPARATUS Multiple alignment patterns, each composed of first and second alignment pattern elements printed by forward and backward movements of a print head, respectively, are formed while the relative printing positions of the two elements are shifted. From optical characterist... | 11/04/2010 |
| 20100269720 | METHOD FOR WEB TENSION ADJUSTMENT The invention relates to methods for web tension adjustment in a processing machine for processing a web of goods, in particular in a shaftless printing press, in which downstream web tension segments are decoupled from an adjustment of the web tension in a first web te... | 10/28/2010 |
| 20100232858 | METHOD AND APPARATUS TO CONTROL PRINTER BASED ON FEEDING DIRECTION OF PAPER A method and a printer device capable of correctly processing a printing operation even when a user feeds particular paper, of which a front/back surface (printing surface) and a top/bottom direction (printing direction) are fixed, in a incorrect direction, by determini... | 09/16/2010 |
| 20100132572 | CROP MARK CONTROLLER IN A FUNNEL ASSEMBLY AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING CROP MARKS A cut-off register controller is usable in a longitudinal fold forming assembly of a rotary cylinder printing press that is provided with at least one form folding assembly plane which consists of two adjacently defined longitudinal fold formers. The web ribbon or the p... | 06/03/2010 |
| 20100126369 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR HANDLING PRINTING PLATES AND PRINTING PLATE EXPOSER A method and an apparatus for handling printing plates which are fed to at least two process stations, include at least one receiving deck on which the printing plates are provided and fed to the different process stations by pivoting the receiving deck. The receiving d... | 05/27/2010 |
| 20100122637 | Reverse Air Flow Web Stabilizer A web print unit includes a first plate cylinder, a first blanket cylinder for contacting the first plate cylinder, a second blanket cylinder, and a second plate cylinder for contacting the second blanket cylinder. A web to be printed passes between the first blanket cy... | 05/20/2010 |
| 20100116161 | HIGH RESOLUTION FLEXURAL STAGE FOR IN-PLANE POSITION AND OUT-OF-PLANE PITCH/ROLL ALIGNMENT An adjustment structure used in conjunction with an imprinting structure is provided. The adjustment structure includes a sample mount for mounting a sample. An actuator mechanism is coupled to the sample mount, the actuator mechanism producing actuated forces on a X-Y ... | 05/13/2010 |
| 20100116157 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR APPLYING MEDIA TO FLAT SUBSTRATES The invention relates to a device (1) for applying media to flat substrates (2), especially printed circuit boards, said device comprising a printing device for applying media to the substrate (2) during a printing method, an optical monitoring devi... | 05/13/2010 |
| 20100107910 | PRINTING TOWERS COMPRISING AT LEAST TWO SUPERIMPOSED PRINTING GROUPS, AND METHOD FOR THE OPERATION OF SUCH A PRINTING TOWER A printing tower is comprised of at least two superimposed printing groups and at least two lateral frames A distance between the two lateral frames can be varied in a horizontal direction. Each of these two lateral frames accommodates at least two of the superimposed p... | 05/06/2010 |
| 20100024670 | PRINTING APPARATUS AND POSITION ERROR SUPPRESSING METHOD FOR THE PRINTING APPARATUS An object is to provide a printing apparatus or the like that improves printing accuracy when a carriage moves back and forth for printing. A block 51 on a block surface plate is mounted on the block surface plate at a predetermined location. On the other hand, a... | 02/04/2010 |
| 20090272287 | Cutting Register Control A web-fed rotary press having a regulating device. The regulating device is a register roller capable of linear movement installed upstream of at least one drive provided as an upstream actuator, i.e., the drive of the folder lead-in rollers or of the draw rollers near ... | 11/05/2009 |
| 20090229480 | Method and Calibration Tool for Calibrating a Rotary Printing Press A method for calibrating a rotary printing press, in which a bearing structure for a printing cylinder is adjusted relative to another component of the printing press, and positions of the bearing structure are measured, including the steps of mounting a calibration too... | 09/17/2009 |
| 20090056583 | Printing method, printing apparatus, and print producing method A printing method that alternately repeats a transport operation that transports a continuous medium in a transport direction and an image forming operation that moves a head to form an image to thereby print out a first image and a second image, which has a smaller len... | 03/05/2009 |
| 20090044714 | Printing method of image and photo-printing system and digital camera adapted for the same A method of printing an image and a photo printing system and a digital camera adapted for the printing method are provided. The method of printing an image is a printing method for outputting through a photo printer an image stored in an image storage device. The metho... | 02/19/2009 |
| 20090031904 | DEVICE FOR AUTOMATIC INDEXING OF A GOLF BALL The present invention is directed to a magnetic indexing device that can be connected to a conveyor, the device firmly holding a golf ball in a particular orientation for the purposes of printing of indicia and logo on the ball when device and ball move along the convey... | 02/05/2009 |
