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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120067235 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SECURING PRINTING FORMS ON A MOUNTABLE SURFACE A method and apparatus of securing and tensioning a printing form in an apparatus having a rotatable drum, comprising positioning a first portion of the printing form over a first set of pins that are coupled to a surface of the drum. The first portion of the printing f... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20110232518 | WIFFLE-TREE PRINTING PLATE REGISTRATION SYSTEM Apparatus (10) for registering printing plates (24) with a plurality of registration members (40A-40F), the apparatus (10) including a plate positioning system (64). The plate positioning system including a first member (50 | 09/29/2011 |
| 20110219974 | Overprinting System and Method An adaptive overprint system for providing an overprint upon a substrate; the substrate comprising a plurality of registration markers at predetermined locations thereon and at least one pre-printed feature; the system comprising: an imager for capturing a digital image... | 09/15/2011 |
| 20110203472 | FEEDFORWARD CONTROL OF DOWNSTREAM REGISTER ERRORS FOR ELECTRONIC ROLL-TO-ROLL PRINTING SYSTEM An ultra-precision register control method in a continuous roll-to-roll printing process for manufacturing electronic devices via a feedforward register control logic, which compensates for and eliminates additional register errors attributable to variations in the spee... | 08/25/2011 |
| 20110192304 | PRINTING PLATE REGISTRATION An apparatus for registering a printing plate includes a support surface. A first registration member provides an electrical signal to the printing plate when contact is established between the first registration member and a first edge of the printing plate. Each regis... | 08/11/2011 |
| 20110192303 | DETECTION OF MISREGISTERED PRINTING PLATE A method for determining if a printing plate is registered. A support surface supports the printing plate. An electric signal travels along a path through the printing plate. A plurality of registration members includes a set of two or more registration members, each ad... | 08/11/2011 |
| 20110126728 | PRINTING UNIT OF A PRINTING MACHINE, AND METHOD FOR USING A PRINTING UNIT A printing unit of a printing machine is configured having at least two frame parts, a spacing between which can be modified. Several forme cylinders and several transfer cylinders, which cooperate to print a web, are located on each of the at least two frame parts. The... | 06/02/2011 |
| 20110067588 | Method of Phasing and Accelerating Cylinders of Printing Press During Auto Transfer A method of preparing cylinders for printing on a web during auto transfer operations is provided. The method includes the steps of printing images on a web with at least one first printing cylinder; accelerating at least one second printing cylinder so that the at leas... | 03/24/2011 |
| 20110041716 | WORKPIECE PROCESSING SYSTEM AND METHOD A workpiece processing system and method, the workpiece processing system comprising at least one workpiece processing module (3), each workpiece processing module comprising: a workpiece processing unit (11) for processing workpieces (W); and a feed unit ... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110030569 | ROLL MECHANICS FOR ENABLING PRINTED ELECTRONICS A print press system and a method are described herein that print an electronic circuit onto a material (e.g., glass substrate, plastic film, plastic film-glass substrate laminate). In exemplary applications, the print press system can print an electronic circuit onto a... | 02/10/2011 |
| 20110005419 | Method for Lubricating a Transfer Roller with An Image Member A method is implemented by a printer to move a transfix roller selectively to clean the transfix roller. The transfix roller is moved from a transfix nip with the print drum to a position where the transfix roller remains in rolling contact with the print drum, but exer... | 01/13/2011 |
| 20100302332 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PRECISE ALIGNMENT ON A CONTINUOUS BELT DISC PRINTER A continuous feed printer for printing on the surface of an object, such as a CD, a DVD or a Blu-Ray disc, wherein the continuous feed printer has a continuous loop belt, a feed mechanism for depositing the object onto the continuous loop belt, at least one pair of alig... | 12/02/2010 |
| 20100294154 | SCALING IMAGES IN A DUAL ENGINE SYSTEM A method for making adjustable magnified images in a plurality of physically coupled print engines by printing a first print including two first fiducial marks related to an original document. The separation of the two first fiducial marks on the first print are measure... | 11/25/2010 |
| 20100288146 | AUTOMATIC ADJUSTMENT OF PRINTER DRUM SPACING A method is presented for automatically controlling the spacing between printer drums. The printer includes at least two print drums (920.1, 920.2) whose parallel rotation leads to image transfer, either between the drums or onto a printed surface. First the pres... | 11/18/2010 |
| 20100242760 | Apparatus and method for mounting printing plate A printing plate mounting apparatus includes a mounting mark information acquiring device which acquires mounting mark information formed on each of a plate-making drum provided in a plate-making apparatus, and a printing drum provided in a printing apparatus that print... | 09/30/2010 |
| 20100236438 | METHOD FOR SKEWING PRINTER TRANSFIX ROLL A method of forming a nip with a skewed transfix roll includes positioning a first axis of rotation of a transfix roll at a skewed angle with respect to a second axis of rotation of an image drum, forming a nip with the skewed transfix roll and the image drum, and opera... | 09/23/2010 |
| 20100139512 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR REGULATING THE REGISTER IN A PRINTING PRESS The invention relates to a method and an apparatus for regulating the register of a rotary printing press (18), including a register regulator (17), the components (1, 5; 2, 6; 3, 7; 4, 8; 9, 10) of which are connected in a real-time bus system (... | 06/10/2010 |
| 20100101440 | PRINTING PLATE POSITIONING A method for positioning a printing plate includes supporting the printing plate on a support surface. A first force is applied to the printing plate to move the printing plate over the support surface along a path. A second force is applied to the printing plate to alt... | 04/29/2010 |
| 20100101439 | MOVEABLE PRINTING PLATE REGISTRATION MEMBER A method for registering a printing plate includes supporting the printing plate on a support surface. A plurality of registration members adapted to register an edge of the printing plate is provided. The first printing plate is moved over the support surface along a f... | 04/29/2010 |
| 20100083854 | METHOD FOR STARTING UP A WEB-FED ROTARY PRINTING PRESS A method for starting up a web-fed printing machine, in which a web to be printed on is guided through at least one printing gap formed by a printing cylinder and a counter printing cylinder of the web-fed printing machine; the printing cylinder accelerates to a print-o... | 04/08/2010 |
| 20100071576 | OPTIMIZED REGISTER CONTROL PROCESS IN A SHEET-FED PRINTING PRESS A method for setting position register and color register in a sheet-fed printing press having a control computer, which provides for one setting operation, in which both position and color register are set by the control computer. For the purposes of the setting, both ... | 03/25/2010 |
| 20100043660 | METHOD FOR THE ARRANGMENT OF PRINTING BLOCKS ON A PLATE CYLINDER OF A PRINTING MACHINE A plurality of printing blocks are placed on a plate cylinder of a printing machine. Each of these printing blocks is located at one of a plurality of mounting locations which are located adjacent each other in an axial direction of the plate cylinder. Each of these pri... | 02/25/2010 |
| 20100005991 | PRINTING PRODUCT MANUFACTURING METHOD AND PRINTING PRODUCT MANUFACTURING APPARATUS AND PRINTING METHOD A printing product manufacturing method of printing a plurality of printing products on a medium includes: generating first and second images on the basis of a printing target image; printing the first image in a first area of a print area and printing the second image ... | 01/14/2010 |
| 20090223392 | Device and method for printing objects The invention relates to a device and a method to print objects employing a letterpress or offset printing method. The surface of the object to be printed or the holding device respectively is measured before printing so as to determine deviations of the distance and th... | 09/10/2009 |
| 20090217832 | Printing Unit and Method for Adjusting a Print-On Position A printing unit is comprised of at least two cylinders which cooperate with each other in a printing group. At least one of these at least two cylinders is movably mounted so that it can be positioned against the other of the at least two cylinders by the use of at leas... | 09/03/2009 |
| 20090126591 | METHOD OF AUTOMATICALLY ADJUSTING THE PRINTING PRESSURE IN FLEXOGRAPHIC PRINTING MACHINES A method of automatically adjusting the printing pressure in flexographic printing machines is disclosed. The method is applied to flexographic machines with a rotating support drum around which a series of printing units with a series of printing rollers associated to ... | 05/21/2009 |
| 20090084281 | Method for reducing register errors on a web of material moving through the printing nip of a multi-color web-fed rotary printing press and corresponding devices Register errors on a web of material which is moving through the printing nip of a multicolor web-fed rotary printing press are reduced. This is accomplished by providing a portion of the web of material, what is located between the web lateral edges of the web and area... | 04/02/2009 |
| 20080264287 | METHOD FOR LOADING PRINTING PLATE ON IMAGING DEVICE A method for aligning the leading edge of printing plate (110) to an axially disposed slot (70) in a cylindrical surface (30) of an imaging drum (20) comprising at least one printing plate clamp (90) having a clamp surface (100)... | 10/30/2008 |
| 20080264280 | Process and system for aligning printed images with perforated sheets A system and process for aligning printed images on a rolled product with perforation lines being formed into the product is disclosed. According to the process, the position of printed images are sensed as the images are being printed onto a substrate, such as a tissue... | 10/30/2008 |
| 20080250962 | METHOD FOR ADJUSTING PRINTING PRESS MODULES The present invention relates to a method for dynamically adjusting at least one printing press module of a printing press (100), in order to correct a first register. Only the first register is changed. Further registers are decoupled from this dynamic adjustmen... | 10/16/2008 |
| 20080214083 | Alignment layer printing apparatus and method of printing using the same A method of manufacturing a liquid crystal display includes: loading an upper substrate or a lower substrate on a stage; positioning a printing roll on the loaded substrate; measuring the printing roll, the measurement being indicative of a size change of the printing r... | 09/04/2008 |
| 20080072776 | Home positon storage unit and home position storage method for use with printing press A home position sensor, which constitutes a portion of a home position storage unit, stores a home position by means of previously detecting the position of a printing cylinder cam. Accordingly, a printing cylinder comes to a stop at a plate replacement position at the ... | 03/27/2008 |
| 20080060540 | IMAGE RECORDING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD FOR AN IMAGE RECORDING APPARATUS In an image recording apparatus, when a photograph image to be printed on a printable surface area of a circular recording medium is selected, a margin area for writing a title or a description is set. Once the margin area has been set, the photograph image is arranged ... | 03/13/2008 |
| 20070272103 | Method and Machine for Aligning Flexographic Printing Plates on Printing Cylinders The present invention relates to a method for aligning at least two flexographic printing plates on at least one printing cylinder, which provides acquiring an image of a part of a first plate, memorising the acquired image, framing a part of a second plate, at the same... | 11/29/2007 |
| 20070266874 | Method and Apparatus for Optimally Adjusting the Infeed in a Rotary Flexographic Printing Press Comprising Multiple Printing Units Provided are a method and apparatus for optimally adjusting a printing press having multiple printing units. In one example, for each printing unit, relative positions are calculated between an anilox roll and a form cylinder that form a first cylinder pair and between ... | 11/22/2007 |
| 20070199467 | CONTINUOUSLY PRINTING IMAGES ON A WEB MATERIAL AND CONTINUOUSLY TRANSFERRING THE IMAGES TO IDENTITY DOCUMENTS A system and method for continuously printing images on a web material and continuously transferring the images to identity documents. A print component prints images on the web material. A registration component registers select images to identity documents. An applica... | 08/30/2007 |
| 20070034104 | Printing method and apparatus A printing method and apparatus is disclosed wherein the printhead has a linear array of nozzles oriented in an axis, and drops of a liquid are printed at a particular location from first and second nozzles of the printhead at a first location. In an embodiment, the noz... | 02/15/2007 |
| 20060249044 | Web printing press and method for controlling print-to-cut and/or circumferential register A method for controlling a print-to-cut register in a shaftless web printing press having a first print unit having a first plate cylinder and first blanket cylinder for printing a web, at least one independent drive for the first print unit, and a folder having a cross... | 11/09/2006 |
| 20060107861 | Roller parallelism adjustment structure Disclosed is a roller parallelism adjustment structure, which includes a roller feeder, which has a first end, a second end, and a transfer roller and an impression roller pivotally provided between the first end and the second end for transferring a material from the f... | 05/25/2006 |
| 20060027117 | Method for manufacturing and controlling structures and patterns of soluble and colloidal substances by printing on the micrometer and nanometer scale and with reduction of the dimensions of the stamp's features A printing process for obtaining patterns of nanometer and micrometer dimensions on a substrate, comprising i) the application of a solution or suspension of an imprinting material to the substrate, ii) the positioning, without applying pressure, of a stamp provided wit... | 02/09/2006 |
