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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8181575 | Method of variable cutoff printing in a press having a common blanket cylinder A variable cutoff web printing press is provided including a first plate cylinder for printing a first color of first and second images and a second plate cylinder for printing a second color of the first and the second images. The printing press also includes a com... | 05/22/2012 |
| 7958822 | Method for forming an image in stone An application for a method of imbedding an image in a stone substrate includes printing an image onto a print image using a computer printer and placing the print image face down on the surface of the stone substrate. A moist towel is placed over the print image an... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7644660 | Simultaneous, multi-layer pad printing transfer apparatus and method for flat and bulging pads A pad printing system comprises, in one aspect, a flexible pad (100) with a front surface (125). One or more applicator heads (120, 130) applies one or more substances, including inks, paints, coatings, decals, water, varnish, solvents, catalyst... | 01/12/2010 |
| 7406915 | Method for forming black matrix of liquid crystal display device A method for forming black matrixes of a liquid crystal display device is provided that includes preparing a transparent substrate, printing first black matrixes on the substrate, and printing second black matrixes on the first black matrixes. ... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7387070 | Method and apparatus for automatic indexing of a golf ball A method and apparatus for applying printing of indicia and logo to golf balls held and indexed by magnetic indexing devices connected to a conveyor. The device includes a stationary base portion and a rotating cup portion which are magnetically coupled to each othe... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7373878 | Digital can decorating apparatus A digitally controlled can decorating apparatus (40) including digitally controlled print heads (50) arrayed around the blanket cylinder (20) of an offset type decorating apparatus for delivering ink in a selected pattern from each print head ( | 05/20/2008 |
| 7362483 | Postprocessing apparatus and postprocessing method A postprocessing apparatus for conducting postprocessing on an image forming member, including a receiving unit for receiving an image forming member having an image formed thereon, and an attaching unit for attaching a hologram recording medium in which a hologram ... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7357585 | Printing tape, tape cartridge provided therewith, and tape printing apparatus A printing tape has a translucent recording-tape layer with a recording surface on a face thereof, and a translucent pseudo-laminating layer adhered to a back of the recording-tape layer. The pseudo-laminating layer has an adhesive-agent layer on a face thereof and ... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7347141 | Single drum rotary printing machine A rotary machine including a substantially vertical rotatable drum having pellet-receiving receptacles in its peripheral sidewall. Gravity causes pellets to collect toward the drum's bottom. As the drum rotates, pellets received in the receptacles are carried upward... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7337722 | Method and device for printing objects Method for printing objects (2) whereby printing ink (5) or the like is provided on a carrier (3) which consists of a flexible, mainly flat material layer on the one hand, and whereby the printing ink (5) is transferred to the object (... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7335083 | Sheet type balloon A sheet type balloon has a blank, colorable area partly formed on an outer surface of a body, so the balloon is available for coloring or studying materials as well as typical playing materials. The balloon further has a valve assembly having bi-directional function... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7329631 | Method of applying an image to an object A method for applying sublimation ink to an object. An ink transfer medium is placed in contact with an object surface that is coated with a material receptive to the ink. Microwave susceptor material is placed over the transfer medium, and clamped onto the object s... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7311043 | Data carrier with a printed security element and gravure production method thereof The invention relates to a data carrier with a security printed image produced by intaglio printing. The security printed image consists of a plurality of contrasting structural elements disposed in exact register. A first part of the structural elements is designed... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7287470 | Offset lithographic printing press having seamed sleeved printing blanket An offset lithographic printing press combined with a gapped or seamed cylindrical offset printing blanket having pre-made blanket material mounted on a cylindrical sleeve is disclosed, wherein conventional, manufactured blanket material in flat form is adhered to a... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7224490 | Method of producing a printing plate on a cylindrical printing-plate carrier in a rotary printing press A method of producing a printing plate on a cylindrical printing-plate carrier includes subdividing the printing-plate carrier by computation in terms of its width and axial length into at least two circumferential subareas. Then an actual transfer characteristic cu... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7216585 | Shaftless motor drive for a printing press with an anilox inker An offset printing press includes a first plate cylinder, a first blanket cylinder for selectively contacting the first plate cylinder, an anilox inker for inking the first plate cylinder, and a first motor directly connected to the anilox inker for driving the anil... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7182021 | Printing plate material, printing plate material roll, printing plate manufacturing process, and printing process A printing plate material product, is provided with a printing plate material including a substrate and a image forming layer provided on the substrate; and a wireless memory tag mounted on a part of the printing plate material and including a semiconductor memory a... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7168365 | Transfer of image with sublimating inks and medium in sheet form for performing it A method for manufacturing a medium in sheet form that can be used for the sublimation transfer of an ink onto an imprintable medium; the medium in sheet form comprises at least one supporting layer, at least one adhesive coating and a plurality of granular or elong... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7159513 | Offset printing machine The invention relates to the drive of a printing machine. Cylinders and functional groups are to be driven with low technical expenditure. To this end, all form cylinders in a printing unit, for example, are driven respectively by separate electric motors and are no... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7146908 | Offset printing machine The invention relates to the drive of a printing machine. Cylinders and functional groups are to be driven with low technical expenditure. To this end, all form cylinders in a printing unit, for example, are driven respectively by separate electric motors and are no... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7145464 | Data collection device In one aspect of the invention a data collection device is provided for use with a medium said medium being usable when exposed to electromagnetic radiation that is characteristic of such use. The data collection device has a sensor capable of sensing when the mediu... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7140296 | Method for forming pattern of liquid crystal display device A method for forming a pattern of a liquid crystal display (LCD) device includes providing a cliché having at least a first groove structure having a first width and a second groove structure having a second width equal to at least a multiple of the first width and... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7131375 | Offset lithographic printing press having seamed sleeved printing blanket An offset lithographic printing press combined with a gapped or seamed cylindrical offset printing blanket having pre-made blanket material mounted on a cylindrical sleeve is disclosed, wherein conventional, manufactured blanket material in flat form is adhered to a... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7100509 | Device and method for correcting a longitudinal register error which is caused by position adjustment A process for correcting the longitudinal registration error of a rotary printing press with several inking systems in which a control unit adjusts the desired application line of the printing plate on the material web lying on one of the two rollers. In making the ... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7082874 | Short inking unit A short inking unit for a planographic printing unit that has a compact design and is operable for transferring an ink film to a form cylinder with high uniformity and stability. This short inking unit includes an applicator roll arrangement having a plurality of ap... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7080447 | Method of manufacturing solder mask of printed circuit board A solder mask manufacturing method adapted to apply a solder mask on a surface of a substrate of a circuit board, said surface is provided with a conductor pattern having an unsheltered portion and a sheltered portion which is covered by said solder mask. The method... | 07/25/2006 |
| 7069851 | Gravure printing method and gravure printed item This invention provides a gravure printing method and a gravure printed item under application of cells of AM screen and cells of FM screen. The cells corresponding to the letters and the lettering images requiring a dark ink concentration and the like are formed by... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7063470 | Printer media supply spool adapted to allow the printer to sense type of media, and method of assembling same A printer media supply spool adapted to allow the printer to sense type of media, and method of assembling same. The supply spool comprises a shaft having a supply of media ribbon wound thereabout. A transceiver unit is disposed proximate the shaft. The transceiver ... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7044058 | Automatic motor phase presetting for a web printing press A method for presetting motor phase in a web printing press includes providing a mark on a printing form, the mark being a function of a desired preset phase for a motor driving the printing form during printing. The mark is read using a sensor, the sensor having a ... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7040230 | Achieving at low cost improved print quality and high gloss and recyclability on paper or paperboard substrates on sheetfed or webfed printing presses A method of reducing the paper or paperboard costs to the owners of a press in the printing of ink on paper or paperboard substrates. The method including providing a press with one or more printing stations. Before feeding the substrates involved to an ink printing... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7037561 | Security element, thermal transfer sheet, intermediate transfer recording medium, and method for formation of security element The present invention provides a security element which is low in cost, is difficult to forge or alter, and can be applied to objects where a high level of security is required. The security element comprises at least a substrate and a fluorescent colorant layer pro... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7032516 | Printing process employing development-on-press type printing plate material Disclosed are a printing process employing a printing press comprising a plate cylinder and a blanket cylinder, and employing a first printing plate material and a second printing plate material each material comprising a hydrophilic support and provided thereon, an... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7000542 | Low cost litho printing press, printing plate, and method for printing paste-type oil-based litho ink which eliminate the dampener and dampening solution therefrom A litho printing press comprising one or more litho ink printing stations, each of which has paste-type, oil-based litho ink applicating means for depositing said oil-based litho ink onto a printing plate, an adjacent first rotatable cylinder called the plate cylind... | 02/21/2006 |
| 7001660 | Images in solids surfaces The present invention relates to systems and methods for forming images in solid surfaces, and to solid surfaces containing an image. In particular, the present invention provides systems and methods for forming images in polymeric materials, and polymeric materials... | 02/21/2006 |
| 7000539 | Offset printing machine The invention relates to the drive of a printing machine. Cylinders and functional groups are to be driven with low technical expenditure. To this end, all form cylinders (1.1, 1.2) in a printing unit, for example, are driven respectively by separate electric... | 02/21/2006 |
| 6994765 | Method for forming images and intermediate transfer recording medium The present invention provides a method for image formation, that can yield thermally transferred images which are excellent in various fastness properties even under severe service conditions, and an intermediate transfer recording medium for use in the method for ... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6990904 | Thermal transfer assembly for ceramic imaging A thermal transfer assembly that comprises a thermal transfer ribbon and a covercoated transfer sheet. The thermal transfer ribbon includes a support and a ceramic ink layer. The ceramic ink layer is present at a coating weight of from about 2 to about 15 grams per ... | 01/31/2006 |
| 6983688 | Decoration for bags and cases and method for applying the same A custom decoration for bags, cases, portfolios and other business accessories (the “item”) that can be printed at an appropriate location directly on the otherwise-finished item is provided. The decoration comprises a single or multi-colored ink image transferr... | 01/10/2006 |
| 6983697 | Printing color layers An intermediate transfer member is disengaged from an impression drum. Color layers are applied to the intermediate transfer member. A sheet media is transported between the intermediate transfer member and the impression drum while the intermediate transfer member ... | 01/10/2006 |
| 6981444 | Seamed sleeved printing blanket A gapped or seamed cylindrical offset printing blanket having pre-made blanket material mounted on a cylindrical sleeve, and a method for making same, are disclosed, wherein conventional, manufactured blanket material in flat form made by methods known in the art is... | 01/03/2006 |
