Did You Know...
...that two musicians were responsible for the invention of color print film? Fascinated by photography, Leopold Godowsky and Leopold Mannes worked together to produce an easy-to-use, practical color film. They worked full time as music teachers and gave concerts while experimenting during their off hours in Mannes' kitchen. Their success earned them full-time, well-paying jobs at Kodak and their efforts resulted in Kodachrome film, which was introduced in 1935.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7295362 | Continuous direct-write optical lithography An optical lithography system comprises a light source, a spatial light modulator, imaging optics and means for continuously moving a photosensitive substrate relative to the spatial light modulator. The spatial light modulator comprises at least one array of indivi... | 11/13/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7167296 | Continuous direct-write optical lithography An optical lithography system comprises a light source, a spatial light modulator, imaging optics and means for continuously moving a photosensitive substrate relative to the spatial light modulator. The spatial light modulator comprises at least one array of indivi... | 01/23/2007 |
| 6637329 | Method for improving registration of images on opposing sides of a printing medium The present invention is a method to generate alignable orthogonal images from non-orthogonal scans in a double-sided digital-offset-press arrangement by shifting the image data in the multi-channel modulators in a direction and rate that keeps the images... | 10/28/2003 |
| 4995184 | Passbook page turning mechanism A passbook page turning mechanism includes independently movable and spaced upper rollers and independently movable and spaced lower rollers which are vertically movable and which grip the passbook and move the passbook from a printing station to a page t... | 02/26/1991 |
| 4838162 | System for printing both sides of envelopes A system of printing information on opposite sides of paper board envelopes using heat sensitive films or foils fed between transfer die members and envelopes passing therebetween. The system includes a supply magazine or the like, a conveying system for ... | 06/13/1989 |
| 4810120 | Perfecting printer with turnover unit A perfecting printer comprises a feeding roller for successively feeding cutforms accommodated in a feed stacker onto a transfer path provided with pairs of reversible transfer rollers. Each cutform is first transferred forward past a printing unit withou... | 03/07/1989 |
| 4516866 | Printing apparatus Disclosed is a printing apparatus for printing a page of a book. The printing apparatus comprises printing means, page turning means, and a shutter movable between the printing means and the page turning means for guiding the book. The shutter is located ... | 05/14/1985 |
| 4488367 | Page turning apparatus Disclosed is an apparatus for selectively turning the pages of a book forward and backward. The apparatus of the present invention comprises a roller, first transfer means, pressing means, driving means, and second transfer means. The roller can rotate se... | 12/18/1984 |
| 4116124 | Two-sided simultaneous printing method Intaglio printing plate apparatus comprising in combination two intaglio die plates one for attachment to the top platen of a printing press and one for attachment to the lower or bottom platen with the recessed intaglio designs of the two plates, facing ... | 09/26/1978 |
