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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7415928 | Printing machines with at least one color support A printing press has at least one ink carrier. A printing substance, such as ink is applied to the ink carrier and at least some of that ink is transferred to a substrate at a separation location. A light-hydraulic effect is used to accomplish this separation. Radia... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7387068 | Methods of making multi-color ink stamps A method of making an ink stamp includes providing a first porous structure having a top surface, a bottom surface and porous edges extending between the top and bottom surfaces, loading a first ink into the first porous structure, and providing a second porous stru... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7339700 | Profile adjustment method, apparatus, and program The invention makes it possible to perform a quantitative evaluation not influenced by experience and sensitivity of a user, upon adjustment of a profile. The adjustment of first conversion data, for converting device independent data included in a profile describin... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7337035 | Method for carrying out a printing correction and apparatus for doing this A method for carrying out a printing correction and a device for this. A method for carrying out a printing correction is provided, a product being printed on during a processing procedure by a plurality of processing devices, positions of two printing marks A,B,C,D... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7319547 | Color printer calibration A method of determining substrate and ink compatibility includes providing a test pattern having a range of ink loading levels and including test features corresponding to at least one of text and graphics; identifying a substrate; identifying an ink set; printing t... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7313352 | Image forming apparatus, method of controlling same, machine-readable medium and process cartridge In an image forming apparatus, a pattern forming unit forms a pattern for ameliorating image positional displacement, and a detecting unit detects the pattern. An ameliorating unit ameliorates an image positional displacement based on the pattern detected. If for ex... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7286150 | Thermal transfer printing A method of printing a fluorescent image on a surface of a receiver medium comprises forming on the surface by a thermal dye transfer printing process a first image of a first fluorescent dye; and forming on the first image by a thermal dye transfer printing process... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7284486 | Device and method for controlling the position of the lateral edge of a continuous web A device and a method for controlling a position of a lateral edge of a continuous web of a recording medium in a printer or copier provides that sensors are provided. Signals of the sensors are supplied to a control device which includes an actuator. The actuator c... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7273009 | Marking structures for hand stamps A hand stamp includes a first marking structure having a front surface adapted to print a first ink onto an object, a rear surface and peripheral edges extending between the front and rear surfaces. The hand stamp includes a second marking structure having a front s... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7251444 | Apparatus for controlling driving of endless belt, and image forming apparatus To compensate for the variation in the output signal from an encoder due to the variation in the thickness of an endless belt, an apparatus includes: a detector that detects a reference position on the endless belt; a correction-value calculating unit that calculate... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7233412 | Method of determining a color profile for printing with N printing inks A method of determining a printing color profile for printing with N printing inks, which form a color solid of the printable inks in a device-independent color system, includes the steps of selecting one or more printing inks, and defining an inner reference curve ... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7228798 | Printing machine A web-fed printing machine is provided. The printing machine includes a plurality of printing units. A first work station precedes the printing units. A second work station follows the printing units. At least one lifting device is assigned to the printing units for... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7222568 | Method for flexographic multi-color printing using anilox rollers having different diameters A method for flexographic multi-color printing, wherein a print medium web is passed continuously through a flexographic printing press having at least two ink units, each ink unit including a printing cylinder, an anilox roller and an ink sup-ply system adapted to ... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7208904 | Multiple motor position control A controller for motor activation providing accurate and repeatable position changes by pressing and releasing a push button switch. Repeatable position changes are made in an advance direction by triggering a digital counter for a predetermined number of cycles of ... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7197980 | Engraving sheet and method of engraving the same An engraving sheet includes a support layer fabricated of biaxially oriented high-density polypropylene, and an engraving layer formed on the support layer and having an opacity of 40%. The engraving sheet is engraved from the engraving layer down to the support lay... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7193640 | Printer color registration correction Techniques are disclosed for performing color registration estimation and correction in a multi-head printer. A registration target is printed by the printer and captured by an image capture device (such as a camera) within the printer. The registration target inclu... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7191704 | Conveyor unit for conveying flat objects A conveyor unit for conveying flat objects includes at least first, second and third endless belts, together with a cylinder. The first endless belt extends along a part of the circumference of the cylinder and forms, with the cylinder circumference, a section of a ... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7185962 | Ink jet apparatus and ink jet print method having a plurality of double-sided printing modes An ink jet print apparatus having a plurality of double-sided printing modes (e.g., automatic double-sided printing mode and manual double-sided printing mode) produces a sufficient image quality whichever mode is executed. For this purpose, image data to be printed... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7148995 | Printing adjustment system and method A printing adjustment method includes providing a plurality of solid and screened density values produced by a proofing device that represent intended density values. The method also includes providing a plurality of solid and screened density values produced by a p... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7106474 | Color management system using measured device data Managing color data to transform source color image data from a source device into destination color image data for rendering by a destination device, including accessing a source color data file corresponding to the source device, the source color data file contain... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7102790 | Simplified tone scale correction A system and method are provided for linearizing the tone scale of individual colors in a multi-color printing system, by deriving a prescribed tone scale of individual colors in a single or multi-color printing system. Full linear ink gradations are printed on mult... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7093540 | Method and device for initial adjustment of the register of the engraved cylinders of a rotary multicolor press To adjust peripheral register of engraved cylinders, the positions of a respective angular register mark arranged on each cylinder is measured with respect to a zero reference, and an angular printing mark characteristic of the position of the engraving is associate... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7070846 | Carpet constructions, systems, and methods A textile substrate such as patterned carpet for coordinating with other flooring is provided. The substrate includes a multi-colored pattern produced by a process for coloring substrates, using the application of liquid colorants, in which the assignment of color i... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7068380 | Print media catalog service An automated utility for obtaining an identification of a new type of media from a user and searching remote databases to locate and retrieve properties of the new media to set appropriate printing parameters, including colorimetric parameters. To print on a new med... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7054031 | Color reproduction process A method of color printing is described in which only two transparent inks are used to reproduce a source image The original digitally encoded image in red, green and blue colors may be initially adjusted for contrast, brightness, color balance, and tonal value. Thi... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7047852 | Feedforward control system for an elastic material A process for providing feedforward control to control the feed rate of an elastic material. The process involves measuring the distance between registration marks on the elastic material prior to cut-off. These measurements are compared to a target cut length. The ... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7050196 | Color printer calibration The present invention addresses the quantification of a printed tone scale for each individual color in a printing system, developing a linear tone scale derived in an independent color space and referenced from the shade of the unprinted substrate. The present inve... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7044058 | Automatic motor phase presetting for a web printing press A method for presetting motor phase in a web printing press includes providing a mark on a printing form, the mark being a function of a desired preset phase for a motor driving the printing form during printing. The mark is read using a sensor, the sensor having a ... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7035467 | Method and system for processing images for themed imaging services In a method for determining the general semantic theme of a group of images, whereby each digitized image is identified as belonging to a specific group of images, one or more image feature measurements are extracted from each of the digitized images in an image gro... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7032518 | Method and system for managing tension and maintaining registration between multiple webs in a web finishing system A system and method for managing the tension and maintaining registration between multiple webs in a web finishing system. The method involves transporting a first web and at least second web toward a finishing apparatus, comparing relative positions of registration... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7032508 | Printing press An apparatus and method is described wherein a printing press is profiled during production press runs and wherein ink color is controlled. ... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7023578 | Printer image processing system with customized tone reproduction curves A customized tone reproduction curve is created by the operation of an independent processor system associated with the image processor for a full color printer. Data for the customized tone curves is entered through a customizing interface according to the discreti... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7017492 | Coordinating the functioning of a color control system and a defect detection system for a printing press A method of coordinating the utilization of a color control system and a defect detection system on a printing press includes acquiring image data and processing the data by a comparison to template image data and the generation of color error data and print defect ... | 03/28/2006 |
| 7000541 | System and method for interleaf sheet and/or plate sheet removal and/or transport for use with a printing apparatus The present invention relates generally to systems and methods that remove an interleaf sheet interposed between plate sheets from a material stack used, for example, in a computer-to-plate imaging system and/or environment. Embodiments of the system and method can ... | 02/21/2006 |
| 6999200 | Method of and device for managing print colors, and image data processing device A plate-recording and printing system is provided with a printing plate recording device for recording an image on a printing plate based upon binary image data formed in an image data processing device, a printing press for carrying out a printing operation by usin... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6987533 | Camera reference device and method of making camera reference device A reference device for setting color biasing mechanisms on a camera and achieving a consistent color biasing in different environmental situations, and a method of making the same. The reference device comprises a reflective media having a surface that has had its s... | 01/17/2006 |
| 6983695 | Printing method, printed matter, and printing control device Color densities of patches included in a control strip are measured to perform printing control based on the color densities. The patches are arranged in the same direction as the arrangement of ink keys of a printing device. The patches include four typical patches... | 01/10/2006 |
| 6954286 | Color converting apparatus A color conversion table as a LUT is generated easily in a simple operation by merging a printing condition profile for color conversion and a printer condition profile. When a file under the title “SLIGHTLY COATED PAPER PRINTING” as a printing condition profile... | 10/11/2005 |
| 6953511 | Method for high definition dip transfer printing and article made according to method Method for high definition printing to be dip transferred to a three-dimensional article comprises four color process printing a digital image from a digital image file onto a water soluble polymer film with solvent based ink to form a printed water soluble film and... | 10/11/2005 |
| 6920306 | Extraneous matter removal method and image recording equipment with extraneous matter removal feature An image recording equipment is provided with an adhesive roller that is brought into contact with a surface of an image recording sheet wound around a rotary drum and keeps in contact with the image recording sheet with contact pressure axially distributed in a ran... | 07/19/2005 |
