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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8100055 | Developing method for laser sensitive lithographic printing plate A method of developing a laser sensitive lithographic printing plate is described. The plate comprises on a substrate a photosensitive layer soluble or dispersible in ink and/or fountain solution and capable of hardening upon exposure to a laser. The plate is expose... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8061270 | Methods for high speed printing Methods for high-speed printing include deposition of individual drops of an aqueous solution on top of a hydrophobic ink applied to a print cylinder. The methods further include stripping away the ink from the area of the cylinder not covered by the aqueous solutio... | 11/22/2011 |
| 7966934 | Process for on-press developing overcoat-free lithographic printing plate A method of processing an overcoat-free on-press developable lithographic printing plate with ink and/or fountain solution is described. The plate comprises on a substrate a photosensitive layer which is either capable of hardening (negative-working) or solubilizati... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7752966 | Method of developing laser sensitive lithographic printing plate A method of developing a laser sensitive lithographic printing plate with ink and/or fountain solution is described. The printing member comprises on a substrate a photosensitive layer soluble or dispersible in ink and/or fountain solution and capable of hardening u... | 07/13/2010 |
| 7380500 | Process for the offset printing of patterns via the fountain medium A process for the offset printing of a receiving medium with a functional pattern comprising in any order the steps of: applying a printing ink to a printing plate and wetting the printing plate with an aqueous fountain medium containing a solution or a dispersion c... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7358034 | Method of processing on-press developable lithographic printing plate A method of deactivating and on-press developing an exposed lithographic printing plate is disclosed. The plate comprises on a substrate a photosensitive layer developable with ink and/or fountain solution and capable of hardening upon exposure to a radiation. The p... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7348131 | Laser sensitive lithographic printing plate having a darker aluminum substrate A laser sensitive lithographic printing plate comprises an electrochemically grained, anodized, hydrophilically treated aluminum substrate with a reflection optical density of 0.30 or higher; a free radical polymerizable photosensitive layer; and a water soluble or ... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7329482 | Dampening water composition for lithographic printing A dampening water composition for a lithographic printing comprising an adduct compound of ethylene oxide and propylene oxide to ethylenediamine, which compound has a weight-average molecular weight of from 500 to 1500. The dampening water composition can be used in... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7285376 | Correction process of planographic printing plate Disclosed are a process of correcting a planographic printing plate with an image, and a correction solution for correcting the planographic printing plate; the process comprising the steps of scraping stains at the non-image portions or undesired images at the imag... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7276109 | Fountain solutions containing antipiling macromolecules Piling due to ink, paper fibers and/or clay fillers occurs frequently during an offset printing process, resulting in the deterioration in print quality and lost manual time due to the necessity to clean the equipment. It has been experimentally found that small qua... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7262229 | Ink for excimer curing A lithographic ink composition that comprises a colorant having absorbency wavelength cutoffs of about 300 nm or longer, acrylate-functional materials, and a photoinitiator that absorbs at a wavelength of 300 nm or longer is formulated with a mileage of from about 1... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7261034 | Utilization of a printing ink in a printing group and printing group of a rotary printing press A method for operating a printing group and a device for the use of a printing ink in a rotary printing press is disclosed. 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 g... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7240615 | Self-dampening ink compositions and method for lithographic printing using the same A self-dampening ink composition and methods for lithographic printing using a single fluid lithographic ink are provided in the invention in which the composition comprises glycerol in an amount greater than 0 to about 10 percent by weight, a nonionic surfactant wi... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7213516 | Method of processing laser sensitive lithographic printing plate A method of developing a laser sensitive lithographic printing plate with ink and/or fountain solution is described. The printing member comprises on a substrate a photosensitive layer soluble or dispersible in ink and/or fountain solution and capable of hardening u... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7214469 | Lithographic printing plate precursor and lithographic printing method The present invention provides a lithographic printing plate precursor and a lithographic printing method using the lithographic printing plate precursor, which is capable of an image recording by infrared laser scanning and an on-press development and excellent in ... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7214725 | Radiation-curable lithographic inks 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 lithographic printing applications. The inventive ink formulations are b... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7196047 | Fountain solution concentrates Liquid concentrate components of a fountain solution are provided, including a liquid film-forming fountain solution concentrate and a liquid surface-tension reducing fountain solution concentrate. The concentrates and water can be combined together to form a founta... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7191705 | Printing device and method, in which a humidity promoter is applied prior to the ink-repellent or ink-receptive layer In a method and device to generate a print image on a carrier material, a surface of a print carrier is coated with a layer which is one of ink-repelling and ink-attracting. In the structuring process, ink-attracting regions and ink-repelling regions are generated. ... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7163779 | Planographic printing plate material process, planographic printing plate and printing process Disclosed is a process of manufacturing a planographic printing plate from a planographic printing plate material comprising a support and provided thereon, at least one of an image formation layer and an ablation layer, the process comprising the steps of imagewise... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7162955 | Lithographic printing method and printing press Disclosed is a method of carrying out lithographic printing using a plate having an image recording layer capable of being developed with dampening water and/or ink, the method including: a development step in which a plate bearing... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7147988 | Printing plate material, roll of a printing plate material and printing method A printing plate material including: a plastic support; a hydrophilic layer on the plastic support; and a back layer on the plastic support, being provided on the opposite side to the hydrophilic layer, wherein the back layer includes a matting agent, and a distribu... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7140297 | Printing process and manufacturing process of printing plate material Disclosed is a printing process employing a printing plate material obtained by providing, on a support, a coating solution for an image formation layer capable of forming an image by heating, the process comprising the steps of imagewise heating the printing plate ... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7114443 | Method of delivering a fountain solution A method of preparing a fountain solution, a system for blending two or more concentrate components of a fountain solution, concentrate compositions, and articles of manufacture or kits comprising the concentrate compositions are provided. The method comprises combi... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7100503 | Method and device for producing different printed images on the same print substrate In a method and system to generate a print image on a carrier material, the surface of a print substrate is covered with at least one of an ink-repelling and an ink-attracting layer. In a structuring process, ink-attracting regions and ink-repelling regions are gene... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7089856 | On-press development of thermosensitive lithographic printing member Method of on-press developing a thermosensitive lithographic printing member with ink and/or fountain solution is described. The printing member comprises on a substrate a thermosensitive layer soluble or dispersible in ink and/or fountain solution and capable of ha... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7077516 | Inkjet printing method An ink jet printing method, including the steps of: A) providing an ink jet printer that is responsive to digital data signals; B) loading said printer with an ink jet recording element, having a non-absorbing substrate; C) loading said printer with an ink jet ink c... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7078159 | Method for the preparation of a printing plate The invention relates to a method for the preparation of a printing plate comprises inkjet printing an oleophilic image on a surface of a support by applying to the support an aqueous solution or aqueous colloidal dispersion of an oleophilising compound on the surfa... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7070709 | Dust suppressant and soil stabilization composition Disclosed are dust suppressant and aggregate stabilization compositions. In accordance with the subject disclosure, hemicellulose is used as a dust suppressant and/or as a stabilization composition for aggregates such as a road bed or soil field. Other ingredients m... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7066087 | Dampening water feeding method and printing machine Densities of detecting patches also called control scales printed on prints in a first print job are used to control the feed rate of dampening water in a second print job following the first print job. Specifically, densities of detecting patches on the prints obta... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7059246 | Process for obtaining image information of an illustrated printing form, device for this and printing press A process is provided for obtaining or refreshing the illustration of a printing form, preferably in wet-offset printing. Instead of clearing the illustration over the entire area, the printing form is acted on during the production. For this, a processing agent can... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7017490 | Lithographic fountain solutions Lithographic fountain solutions containing a surfactant-effective quantity of at least one reaction product comprising the following reactants: (A) at least one compound of formula I R1(X)3 (I) wherein each X group is ... | 03/28/2006 |
| 6976428 | Wet offset printing form A wet offset printing form has a top layer containing a photocatalytically and thermally modifiable material. The material can be brought photocatalytically into a hydrophilic state by irradiation with light and into a lipophilic state by heating. The hydrophilic st... | 12/20/2005 |
| 6968317 | Method and apparatus for new accounts program A method for opening an on-line brokerage account includes the steps of opening an on-line brokerage account for a user based on account information received from the user, the on-line brokerage account having one or more restrictions, generating an application base... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6948431 | Method for metering dampening solution when printing with an offset press A novel damping control method permits improved reliability and higher accuracy when registering scumming during printing with an offset press. Signals are obtained by at least one sensor aimed at a revolving printing form cylinder. The signals are processed in a co... | 09/27/2005 |
| 6938783 | Carrier tape A carrier structure comprises a carrier base which is not thermally deformable and a portion of which is also transparent to electromagnetic radiation. An adhesive layer is disposed on a surface of the carrier base. Semiconductor chips or other items adhere to the a... | 09/06/2005 |
| 6924085 | Photoresist coatings for copper clad stainless steel printing plates A copper clad metal printing plate can be coated with an azide-containing photoresist comprising a polyformal resin together with a modified polyformal resin that has up to 100% of its hydroxyl groups converted to carboxyl groups, an organo azide and a photosensitiv... | 08/02/2005 |
| 6908186 | Inkjet ink composition and an ink/receiver combination An aqueous inkjet ink including: a pigment; a water-soluble heat sensitive ionomer; at least one surfactant; and a humectant; wherein the ionomer is a charged polymer having at least 15 mole % of the recurring units negatively or positively charged. ... | 06/21/2005 |
| 6901853 | Spray damping unit The invention relates to a spray damping unit for printing machines, with a spray housing attached to a machine frame which extends parallel to and along the roller to be dampened, and a spray bar carrying spray valves, which is adjustably attached on the spray hous... | 06/07/2005 |
| 6868786 | Patterning method with micro-contact printing and its printed product A patterning method for micro-contact printing involves the steps of: applying a resin on a master having projected patterns, hardening the resin and thereafter removing the hardened resin from the master to make a stamp of the resin; applying a molecular ink includ... | 03/22/2005 |
| 6854391 | Lithographic printing method and materials A conditioner composition for a printing plate with metallic non-print areas on the printing surface contains a polymeric or oligomeric component. The polymeric component adheres to the metal (particularly, aluminum) surface of the non-print area(s) of the printing ... | 02/15/2005 |
