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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7394564 | Printing machine with a control unit that displays a plurality of key operation switches to control ink keys In an initial state, a key control switch for adjusting opening degrees of ink keys and a display changeover switch are displayed on a display screen of a touch sensitive control panel. The key control switch is a collection of key control switches individually arra... | 07/01/2008 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 6920823 | Photosensitive device, image forming apparatus and method for forming images A photosensitive device has a cylinder, a photosensitive sheet slidably wrapping outer surface of the cylinder, and a feeding roller in the cylinder. The feeding roller feeds the photosensitive sheet to the outer surface of the cylinder sequentially. The photosensit... | 07/26/2005 |
| 6896632 | Belt drive cantilever tensioner A belt drive cantilever tensioner. The tensioner is particularly suited to belt drive systems having a high belt tension. The tensioner comprises a pulley journaled to a cantilever arm. The cantilever arm is pivotably attached to a mounting surface by a fastener at ... | 05/24/2005 |
| 6736063 | Printing apparatus At printing time, a blanket cylinder gear is meshed with a plate cylinder gear, whereby a first plate cylinder is rotatable by a drive motor. At image-recording time, the blanket cylinder gear is separated from the plate cylinder gear. In this state, a different mot... | 05/18/2004 |
| 6668721 | Rotary printing press capable of nonstop printing during a change of printing plates A rotary offset printing press which has a series of printing units of identical make through which a web of paper is threaded. In each printing unit the blanket cylinder is made displaceable into and out of printing engagement with the plate cylinder and... | 12/30/2003 |
| 6557464 | Nine-cylinder satellite printing unit A nine-cylinder satellite printing unit includes printing stations having a first, second, third and fourth transfer cylinder which a web passes through. The transfer cylinders are capable of being stopped when the printing assembly is switched off. A dis... | 05/06/2003 |
| 6539859 | Multicolor printing press A multicolor lithographic printing press utilizes a blanket member having a release surface with a transfer rate approaching 100%. This facilitates a press design utilizing a single blanket member to transfer multiple colors of ink onto a recording medium... | 04/01/2003 |
| 6112664 | Plate making apparatus with a cutter and punch mechanism formed in one piece A plate making apparatus of a flexible plate material 13,22 being placed on a plate cylinder 7 for executing planographic printing in multiple colors. The plate making apparatus has a cutter 23 being placed between a storage section 21 of a roll-like plat... | 09/05/2000 |
| 6047638 | Stamp device with a porous base plate and its method of manufacture The ink to be impregnated into the figure portion 6 of the processed stamp plate 10 in the stamp device 11 is formed of polyoxyethylene-alkyl-phenyl ether and oil soluble dye melted therein and regulated to have the viscosity in a range of 300-2000 cps, m... | 04/11/2000 |
| 6027789 | Surface for the transfer of a viscous liquid to a support and offset printing blanket including the surface A surface for the transfer of a viscous liquid product to a support including a substrate having a surface to which are grafted distinct zones of at least one material. The materials may be an anti-adherent material, a hydrophilic material, and a hydropho... | 02/22/2000 |
| 4582768 | Method for forming register marks A method for forming or marking register marks used for the automatic registration between a plurality of printing plates in a printing press. A register mark forming or marking device is mounted on a printing frame of an automatic composer so that a regi... | 04/15/1986 |
| 4321620 | Color scanner for plate making A color scanner comprising an original picture cylinder, a scanning head, a reproduction picture cylinder, and a recording head; and said device having several parallel frame plates with holes simultaneously bored through them in the same relative positio... | 03/23/1982 |
| 4293873 | Method and a device for producing separation images having the effect of being orthogonally screened A method and a device for producing separation images which are essentially orthogonally screened for reproducing an original multicolor image. In one embodiment, the original image is mounted on a drum which is rotated in a Y direction. A sensor is moved... | 10/06/1981 |
| 4287234 | Desensitizing ink for the receiving surface of a chemical duplicating set by wet offset printing A desensitizing ink for wet offset printing on the acceptor surface of a chemical duplicating set of superimposed sheets where one of the sets has an electrophilic acceptor coating and the other a nucleophilic coating for producing a chromogenic reaction ... | 09/01/1981 |
| 4255761 | Apparatus for mixing image signals to obtain a printing master In an apparatus and a process for obtaining image signals, and electronically mixing the image signals to generate mixed signals, the steps include modulating one of the image signals with the control signal, amplitude-inverting the control signal, modula... | 03/10/1981 |
| 4081828 | Method for halftone reproduction of continuous tone images A method for halftone reproduction of continuous tone images, in black and white or color, wherein improved tonal density characteristics are achieved, is disclosed. By plotting a first set of dot fields upon a recording medium, such as photographic film,... | 03/28/1978 |
| 4062688 | Set of basic printing inks for producing color tones by printing methods A novel set of basic printing inks for producing improved color tones in multicolor printing comprising four individual inks of golden-yellow, carmin, violet, and turquoise hues, respectively, and having predetermined spectral intervals between their maxi... | 12/13/1977 |
