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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8109211 | Method of gravure printing with liquid radiation curable inks The invention relates to a gravure printing ink and a method of multi-color gravure printing on flexible substrates with liquid radiation curable inks. Individual colors are transferred via direct contact between engraved gravure cylinder and a substrate. Each color... | 02/07/2012 |
| 7997194 | Method of printing and decorating packaging materials with electron beam curable inks A method for printing and decorating packaging materials, such as paper, paper board and various flexible polymer films by electron beam exposure of plural layers of curable inks and coatings which do not substantially change viscosity during the printing process. T... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7369803 | Fixing device and image forming apparatus using the same A fixing device for fixing image information on a recording medium passing a nip of the present invention includes a rotatable member for transferring and conveying a non-fixed image, a first heating means for heating an image present on the rotatable member and a r... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7368148 | Fabrication process of color filters, inks, color filters, and image displays using the color filters Color filters can each be fabricated by printing a pixel pattern for the color filter on a flexible plastic film by a central impression cylinder press. The pixel pattern is formed of pixels of three primary colors consisting of red, green and blue or pixels of thre... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7357079 | Printing group of a printing unit, consisting of two printing groups placed vertically above each other in a printing machine A printing unit consists of at least two printing groups, which are placed vertically above each other, in a printing machine. Each of the printing groups includes a printing cylinder, an inking unit with at least one inking roller, a dampening unit with several dam... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7355737 | Apparatus and method for two-color printing based on single color data A printer 10 has a reception unit 28 for receiving print commands from a host 12, and has print heads 64, 66 capable of printing multiple colors. A data processing part 24 applies a specific colorization process according to a prin... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7334519 | Rotary press having multiple printing units A rotary press is provided. In the rotary press, tension of paper passing through printing units is always maintained to be constant, and position of a printing pin of each printing unit is consistently maintained to thus prevent a pin secession phenomenon of a prin... | 02/26/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7322291 | Method and a device for the regulation of the web tension in a multi-web system The tension of a web in a multi-web system is regulated. At least two webs initially run through a first processing step independently of each other and are subsequently combined with each other to form one resultant web strand. The web tensions of these two initial... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7312890 | Printing apparatus A method of applying a control strip having an appropriate size in accordance with the size of a print image is provided. Print image data is rasterized or RIP-processed in Step S1. Image layout data is acquired from the print image data in Step S2. Th... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7312891 | Image processing method and apparatus When a color reproduction model of a device is generated, colorimetry of a 9×9×9 grid, for example, is performed utilizing equidistant signal values in the color space of the device. Generally, if the number of grid points is increased, the precision with which th... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7296518 | Methods for measurement and control of ink concentration and film thickness A process is disclosed to measure or monitor ink concentration or ink thickness of an ink film as printed on a printing press, which consists of measuring light reflected from the ink film and the ink substrate. ... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7291658 | Radiation-curable inks for flexographic and screen-printing applications from multifunctional acrylate oligomers The present invention relates generally to radiation-curable ink formulations, and particularly, but not by way of limitation, to a family of radiation-curable ink formulations specifically for flexographic and screen printing applications. The inventive ink formula... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7266317 | Image forming apparatus and positional deviation correction system An image forming apparatus for easily detecting occurrence of positional deviation and magnification deviation among images, even when the deviations are small. Reference patches, which are rectangular areas, in which a longitudinal direction is a sub-scanning direc... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7251058 | Method for generating customized ink/media transforms The present invention is directed to an improved system and methodology for generating ink/media transforms. A preferred methodology comprises one or more of the following steps: selecting the ink type; selecting the color set; selecting the media type; selecting th... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7240595 | Process for producing magnetic tape A process for producing a magnetic tape is provided, in which a web is extended in the width direction immediately before it is cut by a slitter when the web is supplied to the slitter to be cut into several magnetic tapes. The extension of the web is performed by a... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7234398 | Planarizing element for thermal printing of color filter A planarizing element is described for use in a thermal imaging process. The planarizing element includes a support; a planarizing layer comprising a crosslinkable binder having a weight average molecular weight of about 20,000 to about 110,000. ... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7225738 | Eye marks in image processing Systems, methods, and devices for eye marks in image processing are provided. A method includes providing an eye mark having at least two sections arranged along a longitudinal axis, wherein each section includes a border common to both sections and a unique charact... | 06/05/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7219606 | Method and apparatus for measuring, setting and controlling longitudinal and lateral register as well as parallelness of the printing register in a multicolor printing machine The present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for measuring, setting and controlling longitudinal and lateral register as well as parallelness of the printing register in a multicolor printing machine. To reduce waste, the longitudinal and circumferenti... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7211299 | UV curing method and apparatus A UV curing apparatus and method is provided for enhancing UV curing of inks, coatings and adhesives having UV photo initiators therein by subjecting the UV curable inks, coatings or adhesives to UV light at different wavelengths. Preferably, the UV LED assemblies a... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7212346 | Continuous lenticular image label web Described in this application is a method of making a continuous lenticular image label web and a process for making a plurality of lenticular labels using a continuous lenticular image label web. In addition, a continuous lenticular image label web is described and... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7187467 | Image supply apparatus, image output apparatus, control apparatus therefor, and image forming apparatus incorporating them An ink jet printer for forming an ink jet printed long strip of cloth includes a design image generation unit, a receiving unit, a generating unit and a synthesizing unit. The design image generation unit generates design image data representing a design image repea... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7178457 | Foil look printing technique A process of manufacturing envelopes and a product manufactured in accordance with such process is disclosed. The process requires printing of an ink design on an envelope, coating of the ink design with a varnish and subsequently embossing the combined ink and varn... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7176415 | Heating method for a band-shaped body and heating apparatus for a band-shaped body A heating method and apparatus for a band-shaped body transported in a constant conveying direction in a heating zone so as to heat the band-shaped body is provided. The method includes detecting whether a portion of the band-shaped body at which width and/or thickn... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7175712 | Light emitting apparatus and method for curing inks, coatings and adhesives A UV curing apparatus and method is provided for enhancing the distribution and application of UV light to UV photo initiators in a UV curable ink, coating or adhesive. The UV curing apparatus and method comprises UV LED assemblies in a first row with the UV LED ass... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7169456 | Transcription plate for forming orientation layer Disclosed is a transcription plate for forming orientation layer by coating printed orientation agent onto a substrate. The transcription plate comprises a base film and photosensitive resin plate, such as an APR layer, wherein a number of dots are arranged on the p... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7153617 | Low molecular weight acrylic copolymer latexes for donor elements in the thermal printing of color filters A donor element is described for use in a thermal imaging process. The donor element includes a support; a heating layer, and a colorant containing thermally imageable layer comprising a crosslinkable binder having a number average molecular weight of about 1,500 to... | 12/26/2006 |
| 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 |
| 7148128 | Electronically addressable microencapsulated ink and display thereof We describe a system of electronically active inks which may include electronically addressable contrast media, conductors, insulators, resistors, semiconductive materials, magnetic materials, spin materials, piezoelectric materials, optoelectronic, thermoelectric o... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7143695 | Method for operating a printing group and utilization of printing ink A rotary printing press is operated using temperature controls. The temperature is set in accordance with a speed at which the printing press is operating. The temperature and speed are set to attain optimum printing results. ... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7140296 | Method for forming pattern of liquid crystal display device A method for forming a pattern of a liquid crystal display (LCD) device includes providing a cliché having at least a first groove structure having a first width and a second groove structure having a second width equal to at least a multiple of the first width and... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7137696 | Ink jet UV curing A method and apparatus for printing a product, article or other object at a printing station and for enhancing the application of UV light to UV photo initiators in a UV curable ink being applied to a product, article or other object at the printing station, compris... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7136613 | Multicolor image forming apparatus and image making device An image forming apparatus, includes: a plurality of image carriers each carrying a developer image; a primary transfer belt opposed to the plurality of image carriers and configured to carry a multicolor developer image; a secondary transfer unit opposed to the pri... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7131379 | Method of controlling register when overprinting a plurality of separated colors A method of controlling register when overprinting a plurality of separated colors, which includes adjusting with register adjusting devices the position of image fields produced with the separated colors on a print carrier, so that the image fields are in register ... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7131374 | Printing press equipped with color chart measuring apparatus A reading time setting section (44) determines a read area for an imaging section (25) on the basis of color chart positional data (id). The imaging section (25) reads an image on printing paper during the reading time and readout image data (rd... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7127992 | Arrangement for printing flat workpieces An arrangement for printing flat workpieces is provided and includes an application roller which rolls on the workpiece surface 6 to be printed and thereby applies a printed image to the workpiece surface 8, the application roller forming a printing cy... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7121207 | Systems and methods for newspaper press cut-off reduction Systems and methods for modifying, altering, constructing, or retrofitting an existing newspaper press having a first cut-off length, to have a second cut-off length which is different from and generally less than the first. These systems and methods generally provi... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7117794 | Method for manufacturing an identification plate A method of manufacture of an identification plate: comprises advancing a transparent sheet material having an opaque material in contact with one major surface thereof to a printing station, printing indicia in reverse on the other major surface of the sheet materi... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7114440 | Method for setting the cut register in a web-fed rotary press A method for setting the cut register in a web-fed rotary press includes assigning a cut register function to a predetermined speed function, wherein the predetermined speed function describes a time curve of an operating speed of the rotary press starting from a pr... | 10/03/2006 |
