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Mouse device with a built-in printer
A mouse device for use as an input device of a computer is provided that includes a housing in which recording paper is loadable, and a printer unit provided within the housing for printing on the recording paper print information received from the computer.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7814830 | Printing system using shape-changing materials A printing plate suitable for retaining ink in an imagewise fashion on a main surface thereof defines an array of pixel-sized cavities. Each cavity has associated therewith a quantity of a light-induced shape-memory polymer. When a cavity is exposed with energy, suc... | 10/19/2010 |
| 7762188 | Reimageable printing member A reimageable printing member such as for use in flexography, includes a layer having a multiplicity of holes, wherein the holes include therein a dimension change material and a printing material upon the dimension change material. Thus, the holes house vertically ... | 07/27/2010 |
| 7341340 | Printed item having an image with a high durability and/or resolution A printed device is provided with an image printed thereon, having a relatively high durability and/or resolution. A printer and method are also provided to produce a high durability image by treating an item to be printed with plasma. In particular, a printer is pr... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7299749 | Lithographic printing plate support and production method thereof A lithographic printing plate support comprising a substrate having thereon a porous layer comprising metal oxide particles bound by a compound containing a metal atom and a phosphorus atom. ... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7194956 | Offset printing method and printing apparatus using heat and light to make a printing plate hydrophilic and hydrophobic There is prepared a printing plate on which a material being hydrophilic due to light energy at a first temperature and being hydrophobic at a second temperature due to heat energy which is lower than the first temperature is provided. First, the whole surface of th... | 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 |
| 7143694 | Method and apparatus for cleaning and erasing printing surfaces, in particular printing surfaces of forme and blanket cylinders in a printing machine The amount of cleaning media needed for cleaning the printing forme is determined with regard to the level of coverage with ink and/or image carrier material of a printing surface and/or from image data about the printing surface. An erasing and hydrophilizing appar... | 12/05/2006 |
| 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 |
| 7025451 | Image transfer onto non-planar surfaces A method for transferring an image onto a non-planar surface in which an image transfer sheet comprising a shape memory polymer or like substance is used to transfer said image. ... | 04/11/2006 |
| 6978715 | Printing press, and apparatus and process for regenerating printing plate A printing press, and an apparatus and a process for regenerating a printing plate can repetitiously reuse the same printing plate and shorten time for decomposition of image areas formed by a hydrophobic organic compound under irradiation with activating light to d... | 12/27/2005 |
| 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 |
| 6938546 | Printing press, layered formation and making method thereof, and printing plate and making method thereof A layered formation, possibly used as a printing plate that is to be mounted to a printing press when performing printing, has a photocatalystic layer including a photocatalyst so that the surface of the photocatalyst layer is rapidly hydrophilized by irradiating wi... | 09/06/2005 |
| 6892640 | Offset printing method and printing apparatus using the same There is prepared a printing plate on which a material being hydrophilic at a first temperature and being hydrophobic at a second temperature which is lower than the first temperature is provided. First, the whole surface of the printing plate is forcibly made eithe... | 05/17/2005 |
| 6877428 | Regenerative plate making and printing process, and plate making and printing apparatus The regenerative plate making and printing process, and plate making and printing apparatus of the present invention are applied to a printing system requiring a separate developing step independent of a printing step. In accordance with the present invention, by re... | 04/12/2005 |
| 6851366 | Reusable printing form Presented is a reusable printing form including a printing area that has a metal oxide surface, in particular a native oxidized titanium surface, which is treated with at least one amphiphilic organic compound whose polar region has an acidic character. In an advant... | 02/08/2005 |
| 6851365 | Method for producing multicolor printing A method for producing multicolor printing, by using printing plates provided digitally with images and/or print, represents an efficient solution for multi-color printing, in particular in a large format. Printing plates, which had been used in a printing press, ar... | 02/08/2005 |
| 6851364 | Printing plate material and production and regenerating methods thereof A printing plate material which can be adapted to digitization of the printing process and recycled and a method for renewing it. As the printing plate material, there can be used one which includes a substrate on the surface of which a coat layer containing a titan... | 02/08/2005 |
| 6832554 | System for direct-to-press imaging A direct-to-press imaging method comprises: (a) applying an imageable coating to a printing cylinder, wherein the imageable coating comprises a composition such as a thermally switchable polymer which changes affinity for a printin... | 12/21/2004 |
| 6820552 | Cleaning method for recycling a printing substrate by laser ablation A method is disclosed for removing ink-accepting areas from a printing master by laser ablation, characterized in that the printing master comprises a substrate which comprises a support and a base layer, wherein the base layer contains a crosslinked hydrophilic bin... | 11/23/2004 |
| 6802258 | Method of lithographic printing with a reusable substrate A method for removing ink-accepting areas of a lithographic printing master is disclosed which enables to recycle the lithographic substrate of the printing master. The method comprises after a cleaning step a treatment of the recycled substrate with an aqueous solu... | 10/12/2004 |
| 6796237 | Method for imaging and erasing an erasable printing form A method for imaging a printing form in which the printing form is charged on its entire surface and is coated on its entire surface with particles, in particular toner particles, which bear the opposite charge. The layer formed by the particles is then fixed in acc... | 09/28/2004 |
| 6782824 | Printing unit with reversible image setting and digital changeover A printing unit for a rotary printing machine with reversible image setting and digital changeover by means of thermal transfer, having an image-setting unit, an erasing or cleaning component and at least one inking unit. In order to achieve further cost advantages ... | 08/31/2004 |
| 6782823 | Imaging unit for a printing form cylinder An imaging unit for a printing form cylinder of a printing press, the printing form cylinder having a width, the imaging unit comprising: an imaging unit comprising, in combination: a cleaning unit, a coating unit positioned below said cleaning unit, an image creati... | 08/31/2004 |
| 6748864 | Apparatus for automatic plate coating and cleaning An off-press plate-making apparatus is provided which comprises an apparatus for removing the lithographic image from the substrate of a used printing master and an apparatus for recoating the recycled substrate with a new image-recording layer. The off-press cleani... | 06/15/2004 |
| 6742454 | Method for modifying an image surface of a printing plate A method for modifying an image surface of a printing plate includes identifying a location of a pixel of an image at the image surface, an ink being disposed at the location of the pixel. The ink at the location of the pixel is then irradiated using a laser imaging... | 06/01/2004 |
| 6732654 | Method for producing a photocatalytic printing plate by film transfer A method for making a printing plate including a step of forming a hydrophobic image area on at least a part of a hydrophilic surface of a plate. The plate surface contains a photocatalyst and the image area is formed by using an organic compound which is decomposed... | 05/11/2004 |
| 6725777 | Recording medium with dispersed ink adhering and ink releasing materials The recording medium comprises a recording layer. The recording layer has a first material and a second material independently dispersed. The first material has a property that a backward contact angle to a liquid lowers when the material is heated in a state of bei... | 04/27/2004 |
| 6723492 | Lithographic printing plate precursor and method for the preparation of lithographic printing plate employing the same A lithographic printing plate precursor comprising a water-resistant support having provided thereon a light-sensitive layer containing fine titanium oxide grains doped with a metallic ion which absorb a visible ray and a complex composed of an organo-metallic polym... | 04/20/2004 |
| 6723491 | Utilizing UV to form and decompose a printing member In one embodiment, the present invention is directed to a method for preparing a printing member by coating a printing cylinder with a layer comprising ultraviolet-curable silicones and curing the layer using ultraviolet radiation. ... | 04/20/2004 |
| 6701843 | Method of lithographic printing with a reusable substrate A method for removing ink-accepting areas of a lithographic printing master is disclosed which enables to recycle the lithographic substrate of the printing master. The method comprises the following step which is preferably carried out on-press: applying... | 03/09/2004 |
| 6701842 | Process for the treatment of an erasable lithographic printing plate A process for treating a used or unused printing plate with an erasing composition to clean the printing plate, laser imaging the printing plate with a polymeric substance, and to provide art image thereon, and fixing the image on the printing plate. Furt... | 03/09/2004 |
| 6694880 | Offset printing method and printing apparatus using the same There is prepared a printing plate on which a material being hydrophilic at a first temperature and being hydrophobic at a second temperature which is lower than the first temperature is provided. First, the whole surface of the printing plate is forcibly... | 02/24/2004 |
| 6694881 | Direct-to-plate lithographic printing method using automatic plate-coating and cleaning A direct-to-plate method of lithographic printing is disclosed wherein a printing press is used that is coupled to a coating apparatus and to a cleaning apparatus; wherein the coating apparatus applies an image-recording layer on a substrate so as to obta... | 02/24/2004 |
| 6637335 | Process and apparatus for imaging surfaces in printing machines The invention relates to an apparatus for imaging surfaces in printing presses, whereby the surfaces to be imaged contains image information of the preceding printing job. The apparatus allows a fast and low-cost regeneration of surfaces carrying image in... | 10/28/2003 |
| 6637336 | Method for producing printing plate, reusing method for printing plate, and printing machine A method for making a reusable printing plate in which a hydrophobic image area is formed on a hydrophilic plate surface containing a photocatalyst. The method includes the steps of carrying out a hydrophobic agent application process in which a solution ... | 10/28/2003 |
| 6620500 | Dry erase member A dry erase member for receiving and releasably retaining a marking composition comprises a substrate coated with a layer of dry erase material on a first face thereof. In specific embodiments, the dry erase coating includes a major amount of a fluorinate... | 09/16/2003 |
| 6615725 | Printing press and printing press control method A printing press includes a blanket cleaning controller, automatic plate change unit, image exposing section, pre-inking controller, and CPU. The blanket cleaning controller cleans a blanket mounted on a blanket cylinder. The automatic plate change unit c... | 09/09/2003 |
| 6615728 | Printing press and printing press control method A printing press includes an ink roller group, image exposing section, pre-inking controller, and CPU. The ink roller group supplies ink stored in an ink fountain to a printing plate mounted on a plate cylinder. The image exposing section exposes an image... | 09/09/2003 |
| 6596464 | Lithographic printing method using single-fluid ink A lithographic printing method is disclosed which comprising the steps of providing an imaging material which comprises a support and an image-recording layer that is not removable with a single-fluid ink which comprises an ink phase and a polar phase; image-w... | 07/22/2003 |
| 6564713 | Printing plate, method for producing printing plate, reusing method for printing plate, and printing machine A method for making a printing plate including a step of forming a hydrophobic image area on at least a part of a hydrophilic surface of a plate. The plate surface contains a photocatalyst and the image area is formed by using an organic compound which is... | 05/20/2003 |
