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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8001896 | Ink dosing device of a printing group, and method for controlling the ink dosing device An ink dosing device of a printing group, that includes a printing group cylinder which is configured as a plate cylinder, includes an inking unit. The ink dosing device has a number of physical zones which are arranged next to each other in a longitudinal direction... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7980175 | Apparatus and method for measuring zonal inking An apparatus for measuring zonal inking on a printed product having a plurality of inking zones includes a plurality of optical sensors, each of the optical sensors picking up signals from at least one zonal measurement region assigned to a respective one of the plu... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7634964 | Method for dosing the quantity of ink in the inking system of a printing machine A quantity of ink is dosed in an inking system of a printing machine, which inking system is provided with at least one dosing device that can be used to modify the quantity of ink which is transferred by the inking system. The dosing device can be adjusted by the u... | 12/22/2009 |
| 7574957 | Wear detector for ink fountain films A device for determining the wear of ink fountain films in an ink fountain has at least one ink metering element and a ductor in a printing press. The ink metering element can be moved in the direction of the ductor. A closed position of the ink metering element wit... | 08/18/2009 |
| 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 |
| 7355358 | Configurable H-bridge circuit In an implementation of a configurable H-bridge circuit, a high switch is connected to a voltage source and a low switch is connected to ground. The configurable H-bridge circuit includes a first configuration as a motor drive circuit in which the high switch and th... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7343046 | Systems and methods for organizing image data into regions The image data is initially processed in a manner that is similar to that used to convert the image data into 3-layer mixed raster content format. After the image data is initially processed through a first stage of the three-layer segmentation process, rather than ... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7334520 | Printing press and device for the inline monitoring of printing quality in sheet-fed offset printing presses A printing press for processing sheet printing materials includes at least one printing unit, a computer and a measuring device for monitoring printing quality during a printing process. The measuring device has a sensing device for measuring by color or spectrally ... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7320284 | Non-offset image forming device with stimulated ink key interface and method An ink key simulator for image forming devices may simulate the effect of ink key adjustments in offset presses. The image adjustment may be made in response to activation of a simulated ink key, for example, by adjusting the pixel values of the stored data and/or b... | 01/22/2008 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 7271909 | Regulated amount measuring apparatus, and regulated amount measuring program storage medium A regulated amount measuring apparatus indicates a difference between two colors, for example, a discrepancy between a color of a printed matter in proof and a target color, to provide an index for a color regulation. A profile of the printing machine of interest is... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7249560 | Ink supply amount adjustment method and apparatus for printing press In an ink supply amount adjustment method for a printing press, one of a density value and a color value of a printing product is measured. The difference between the measurement value and a preset reference value related to one of the density value and the color va... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7240393 | Automatic clean device An automatic clean device includes a base body, a transmission element, a cleaning element and an elastic member. Wherein the transmission element and the cleaning element are disposed on the base body, the elastic member has an end connected to the cleaning element... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7228800 | Doctor beam having a corrosion-resistant fiber coated channel A doctor beam (1) is provided for a doctor blade for application in a printing unit. The doctor beam comprises a U-shaped channel. At least the U-shaped channel (3), which is formed in a metal beam, is provided with a fibre coating (6) preferabl... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7216946 | Ink feeding rate control method and data correcting method for a printing machine An ink feeding rate control method for a printing machine includes a step of determining, from image data used in recording images, an average of image area ratios of images in areas on prints corresponding to ink keys, a step of determining, from the image data, an... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7194955 | Printing press ink fountain adjustment system An ink fountain assembly for a printing press has, or can be retrofitted with, a removable template and ink blade adjustment screws having pointer-like knobs. When the template is installed on the assembly, the knobs point to scales printed on the template. ... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7187472 | Active color control for a printing press A system for the accurate measurement and control of image color density on an operating printing press. The method and apparatus control the printing of a multicolored image by controlling the amount of each of the inks used to print an image based on the color den... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7178461 | Ink fountain assembly with non-tilt cheeks and liner replacement mechanism A non-tilt cheek assembly is provided for use in an ink fountain assembly. An ink fountain mechanism for adjustably metering the thickness of the layer of ink in a plurality of zones axially across a fountain roller for a printing press. The ink fountain mechanism i... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7171899 | Integrated ink rail assembly for a printing press An integrated ink rail assembly includes at least one page pack mounted directly to a manifold, an ink rail mounted to the manifold, and an orifice rail mounted to the ink rail. An ink source is connected to the page pack. The page pack, manifold, ink rail, and orif... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7165494 | System and method for delivering and flushing ink and other liquids in a printing press An enclosed Flush/Rinse and inking system for inking and flushing printing presses is arranged to ink an anilox roller of a printing press, wherein the ink is dispersed from a centralized ink tank. Once inking is complete, the ink is returned to the ink tank, and us... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7167228 | Liquid crystal display device with two kinds of projected portions on a substrate A liquid crystal display device includes first and second substrates, a liquid crystal layer sandwiched between the first and second substrates, a pixel electrode formed on the first substrate, and a counter electrode formed on the second substrate. A plurality of p... | 01/23/2007 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 7131376 | Ink feeding method and ink feeding apparatus An ink feeding method includes a density reading step for reading density data obtained by measuring densities of detecting patches on a first image, before an end of a printing operation, a first computing step for computing, from the density data, an ink feed film... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7127990 | Roll for a printing press and process for manufacturing a roll A roll for a printing press has at least two circular partial areas (25, 33) made of an ink-friendly material and at least one circular partial area (23, 34) made of an ink-repellent material, which is arranged between the at least two circular partial... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7121208 | Method of setting optimized pre-inking prior to the start of printing the current print job A method for setting optimal pre-inking before the start of printing in an inking unit in a press having at least one printing unit. The settings for the pre-inking are determined by an electronic control device belonging to the press. At least one standard characte... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7117788 | Spray device A spray device for a printing press includes a liquid inlet orifice for receiving a liquid, a gas inlet orifice for receiving a gas disposed downstream from the liquid inlet orifice, and an exit orifice disposed at a distance from a surface of the printing press. In... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7114441 | Apparatus for controlling the amount of ink in a printing press In an apparatus for controlling the amount of ink to be supplied to a printing plate mounted on a printing cylinder, which ink is reserved in an ink fountain and transferred by an ink transfer roller to the printing plate via plural ink rollers, where an average val... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7111553 | Method of kneading ink of a printing press and printing press In a printing press, ink fountain keys are disposed to be movable toward and away from an ink fountain roller of an ink fountain to allow them to have a predetermined gap therebetween and hence the amount of ink to be fed to a downstream roller to be determined. The... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7099506 | Image data coding device, image data coding method, image forming apparatus, storage medium and program An image data coding device and the like capable of improving the compression ratio of entropy coding of color image data is disclosed. The image data coding device converts input color image data into color image data whose color is expressed by color data and brig... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7096787 | Printing press and method of controlling ink transfer roller A method of controlling an ink transfer roller is provided. This method achieves stabilized printing quality by evenly distributing ink transfer actions of the ink transfer roller for the number of rotation of a plate cylinder. The ink transfer action of an ink tran... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7089855 | Utilization of a printing ink in a printing group and printing group of a rotary printing press The tack of an ink that is used in a printing group of a rotating printing press, or the temperature of a rotating component in the printing group is selected or controlled. This selection or control is accomplished in a manner so that optimal printing is achieved. | 08/15/2006 |
| 7073445 | Illuminating device for a scanner, and a print reading apparatus using the same An illuminating unit includes a pair of fluorescent lamps each having a prism sheet mounted peripherally thereof to act as a condensing member, and concave mirrors for reflecting light emitted from the fluorescent lamps to printing paper acting as a print. The prism... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7059247 | Ink feeding method for a printing machine An ink feeding method for a printing machine includes a first color density measuring step for measuring color density of prints at selected times, an expected color density computing step for computing, based on the color density of prints measured in the first col... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7059245 | Method of controlling printing presses A method of controlling printing presses includes setting inking by determining setting values for at least one of pre-inking and ink metering, which encompass inking zone opening and ink stripe width, and transmitting the determined setting values to controls of th... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7040232 | Method and system for monitoring printed material produced by a printing press A method for monitoring printed material which is produced by a printing press and includes images printed on a paper web. The method includes the steps of determining, in an original, reference values for chosen parameters of the printed material, detecting the val... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7032511 | Fountain ink feed system An ink fountain assembly for use in duplicating machines, such as rotary lithographic machines. The assembly comprises a fountain trough defined by an elongated blade and an ink fountain roller defining a gap therebetween. A proximal edge of the blade is rigidly ret... | 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 |
| 7031423 | X-ray computed tomography apparatus and picture quality simulation apparatus An X-ray computed tomography apparatus according to this invention includes a gantry (1) which scans an imaging target region of a subject to be examined in accordance with scan conditions, a reconstruction unit (36) which reconstructs image data from ... | 04/18/2006 |
