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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8176847 | Method for assessing the plausibility of at least one measured value determined in a printing press The plausibility of at least one measured value, that is determined in a printing press, and that includes a density of an ink applied to a stock, is assessed. The stock is conveyed through the printing press and the ink is applied to the stock in several inking zon... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8151706 | Apparatus with electrical crush protector and printing press having the apparatus An apparatus for safely operating at least two components which are movable relative to one another in a machine for processing printing materials, includes drive motors each driving a respective one of the movable components. At least one control computer detects m... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8127680 | Method and apparatus of controlling quality of printed image for color printing press A method and an apparatus of the present invention is capable of matching an image of a printed matter with a desired image with high accuracy by adjusting tints even when tints change while printing. There are provided a measurement means that measures gray Lab val... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8100057 | Method for regulating the ink in a printing press The ink in a printing press, in which a stock of material is being printed in an ongoing printing process, is registered. At least one ink is applied to the stock in several inking zones. A measured value, indicating an ink density, is determined for the at least on... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8001898 | Method for adjusting an inking unit of a printing press A method is used for adapting an inking unit of a printing press. During a setup phase for the printing press, at least a first actual value with regard to an ink application that is set at the inking unit and that is applied to the printed material, is determined b... | 08/23/2011 |
| 8001899 | Method for supplying a web of material of predetermined length to a printing press for producing a printed product A printing device, which is usable to produce printed products, is supplied with a material web of a predetermined length. The length of the required web is defined by the printed product to be produced. The material web is assembled from several partial webs, havin... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7997200 | Printing machine and a method for producing a printed product A printing machine is provided with at least one printing unit that is usable for printing an image, in ink, on a printable material. The printing machine includes at least one application device which is usable to apply at least one contactless identification chara... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7992493 | Dampening water control method and printing apparatus Line patches m and solid patches s are printed with a subject image, each line patches having at least 200 lines per inch and a duty ratio of at least 60%, to detect densities Dm and Ds. A water coefficient W (=Dm/Ds) is calculated from the detected densities Dm and... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7954431 | Method for determining operating parameters of a printing press A printing press, in particular a sheet-fed offset printing press, includes at least one control device, a plurality of printing units, one or more varnishing units, and one or more dryers. Variables determining a dryness of the printing material are determined and ... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7856927 | Digital offset printing method, electrophotographic machine and software for causing an electrophotographic machine to carry out such a method The present invention provides a digital offset printing method for producing a composite image on a substrate wherein the image is made up of a first plurality number of component images, each being formed from a different ink. The method comprises providing a firs... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7836826 | Dampening water regulating scale, and dampening water control method A dampening water regulating scale P includes first detecting patches PY1, PM1, PC1 and PK1, and second detecting patches PY2, PM2, PC2 and PK2. The first detecting patches PY1, PM1, PC1 an... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7739952 | Printing apparatus and method of tension control A printing apparatus performs printing on a web of printing paper while transporting the printing paper along a transport path. The printing apparatus includes a first transport mechanism located upstream in the transport path, and a second transport mechanism locat... | 06/22/2010 |
| 7669531 | Printing systems and methods In general, in a first aspect, the invention features a production system for producing items having an image printed thereon. The production system includes a conveyor configured to carry articles along a path relative to one or more stations of the production line... | 03/02/2010 |
| 7650838 | Device and method for control of a printer or copier through controlling signals In a method or device for control of a printer or copier, a series of discrete signal states is generated with which a drive unit for conveyance of a carrier material to be printed is controlled. A control signal is generated to end the conveyance of the carrier mat... | 01/26/2010 |
| 7640856 | Method for controlling the feeding of a web substrate into a printing press A method for controlling the feeding of a web substrate into a printing press, in particular a rotary press, the web substrate being fed with a web tension into the printing press and a printing length to be achieved being specified. A current printing length of the... | 01/05/2010 |
| 7617773 | Blanket size verification using drive torque feedback A device is provided for determining incorrectly sized or manufactured blankets includes a first blanket on a first blanket cylinder independently driven by a first motor, a first controller for determining torque values of the first motor, a second blanket on a sec... | 11/17/2009 |
| 7584699 | Method for correcting print repeat length variability in printed extensible materials and product A method of printing a repeating pattern on a web of an extensible material by providing a web of an extensible material, determining an adjusted print repeat length profile for a repeating pattern to be printed on the web of material; and printing a repeating patte... | 09/08/2009 |
| 7536955 | Method and device for influencing the fan-out effect A device is used to influence the fan-on effect of a web in a web-fed rotary printing press. Sensors are used to sense and to monitor a side register control or adjustment of the web. The values provided by the sensor are supplied to the device which controls the fa... | 05/26/2009 |
| 7516699 | Method for operating a printer which requests print density approval A method for operating a printer for printing a print job requiring at least one color ink. At least one printer operating parameter is chosen which may include a remaining ink volume of the at least one color ink. A first print density for one color ink is obtained... | 04/14/2009 |
| 7493857 | Method for controlling development in automatic developing machine for photosensitive lithographic printing plate precursor and automatic developing machine therefor The electric conductivity of the developer is measured every constant period, a development replenisher is replenished every constant time as a time lapse replenisher in an amount based on a set value of a time lapse replenishment rate, a development replenisher is ... | 02/24/2009 |
| 7490550 | Method for checking impositions for printing pages A method for checking a correctness of impositions and correct mutual register of the print pages at a front side and a rear side of different types of printed matters using a check print apparatus comprising two co-operating printers. The method includes preparing ... | 02/17/2009 |
| 7490549 | Mail processing machine comprising a module optimising franking and method for optimising franking A mail processing machine is described including a recto-verso printer adapted to receive data to be printed and to produce printed documents based on the data, the documents being designed to be enclosed and franked; the processing machine includes a system upstrea... | 02/17/2009 |
| 7481165 | Method for controlling inking in an offset press In a method for controlling the inking in at least one inking unit of an offset press, namely for controlling the zonal inking that can be adjusted by inking zone actuating elements of the respective inking unit, measurement regions are measured for this purpose and... | 01/27/2009 |
| 7478593 | Method for making compensations for register deviations The invention relates to a method of compensating for register deviations, which enables printing quality-reducing register deviations to be avoided at all printing or coating units of a rotary printing press. The method includes: a one-time determination of rotatio... | 01/20/2009 |
| 7464645 | Printing machines having at least one machine element that can be adjusted by a setting element A printing machine has at least one machine element which can be adjusted by the use of a setting element. An adjustment of the one machine element has an effect on the quality of the printing performed by the printing machine. An optical detection device, which inc... | 12/16/2008 |
| 7461595 | Method for operating a printing press A method for operating a printing press, which enables a uniform print quality to be achieved during long periods of operation without replacement of the impression cylinder. The printing press comprises several printing units having impression cylinders and a sheet... | 12/09/2008 |
| 7444935 | Method for correction of variations in the amount of ink applied in a printing process A process for adjusting the print image of a rotating machine equipped with transfer rollers and actuators assigned to them includes changing the position of the rollers. During the printing operation, at least one camera records the intensity of light reflected fro... | 11/04/2008 |
| 7444936 | Device and method for identifying modules in a graphics machine A method for detecting a type of one of plurality of devices attached to a graphics machine, each device being one of at least a first type and a second type. The method includes detecting at a controller the type of device attached to or to be attached to the machi... | 11/04/2008 |
| 7409906 | Optical sensor apparatus and method for sensing ink errors in optical disk manufacturing An apparatus, system and method for detecting ink errors in optical disk printing are provided. The apparatus, system and method include a sensor mount structure and a plurality of optical sensors mounted on the mount structure and in registration with a print table... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7406916 | Conservation of energy transfer during an emergency stop According to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, a method for operating a multi-unit printing arrangement, including multiple individual motors is provided. The method comprises the steps of operating the multi-unit printing arrangement, stopping the m... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7398733 | Inline measurement and closed loop control method in printing machines Spectral, densitometric, or color measured values are detected on sheet printing materials during the printing process in a sheet-fed printing press. The measured values are determined on sheets as they are moving through the printing press and the measured values a... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7390133 | Duplex printer including print unit shifting and web shifting mechanisms After the front surface of a web is printed by a first-side printing unit, the web is shifted in the direction of its width by a direction-changing unit, flipped over by rollers, and transported to a second-side printing unit, where the back surface of the web is pr... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7370954 | Image forming apparatus A medium contraction amount calculating unit calculates a medium length contraction amount in a fixing process of a recording medium in first printing from a medium length before the fixing process and a medium length after the fixing process. A write timing setting... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7373214 | 3-d product printing system A system that prints three dimensional products, the system including at least one object incorporation device that incorporates non-printed objects into partially completed product, the non-printed objects not being printed by the system. ... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7367731 | Feeding accuracy adjustment apparatus, recording apparatus, liquid ejecting apparatus, feeding accuracy adjustment method for recording medium The printer 1 includes a controller 32 for feeding at least a sort of recording medium P to a feed mechanism, obtaining a tendency of degradation of feed accuracy with respect to at least one sort of the recording medium, calculating an adjustment valu... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7365889 | System and method for transparency optimization One embodiment pertains to analyzing a document that is to be printed on a transparency, determining whether the document formatting is optimized for transparency printing, and alerting a user if the document formatting is not optimized for transparency printing. An... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7359084 | Preview display for multiple-sided printing Displaying of document information to be printed in a printing apparatus capable of inserting, during printing on print sheets fed from a predetermined sheet feed unit, a plurality of types of sheets from sheet feed units different from the predetermined sheet feed ... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7350183 | Method for improving optical proximity correction A method for performing model based optical proximity correction (MBOPC) and a system for performing MBOPC is described, wherein the process model is decomposed into a constant process model term and a pattern dependent portion. The desired wafer target is modified ... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7343858 | Method for tracking a registered pattern to a continuous web A method of applying a registered pattern to a continuous web of material involves determining a position of a next pattern such that the next pattern is in registration with a previous pattern, adjusting the position to maintain a transverse location relative to th... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7341550 | Roll, in particular middle roll of a calendar, and calendar Roll and calender including the roll that includes a roll jacket structured and arranged to surround an interior space. Roll also includes an absorber arrangement having at least one passive vibration absorber located within the interior space. The instant abstract ... | 03/11/2008 |
