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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7916355 | Combined flexographic and intaglio printing press and operating system therefor The invention encompasses the combination of two printing technologies into a single web fed printing press 10, particularly the combination of flexographic and intaglio printing. The present web fed printing press 10 comprises at least one flexographi... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7679788 | Embossing tools and tape printers A tape printer for providing an image on a tape medium, the tape printer permitting inputting an image; providing the image on said tape medium; obtaining input image information; and using the input image information to provide an audible output in dependence on th... | 03/16/2010 |
| 7542175 | Combined flexographic and intaglio printing press and operating system therefor The invention encompasses the combination of two printing technologies into a single web fed printing press (10), particularly the combination of flexographic and intaglio printing. The present web fed printing press (10)comprises at least one flexogra... | 06/02/2009 |
| 7420692 | Security font system and method for generating traceable pages in an electronic document A security font system and method are provided for generating traceable pages in an electronic document. The method comprises: accepting an electronic document; modifying font print instructions associated with selected characters; and, transmitting the document wit... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7403309 | Method for producing printed image having 3-dimensional appearance A method for printing images on a substrate wherein the image has a textured, three-dimensional appearance is described. The printing method comprises printing a graphic design consisting of very fine lines having varying width, shape and orientation. This process i... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7239420 | Corresponding lenticular imaging Disclosed herein is a method of making a corresponding lenticular image comprising: providing an output device in communication with a computer having a memory; receiving into the computer memory an interlaced image file; converting the interlaced image file into an... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7158858 | Method to determine when a media handling system configuration is valid and a media handling system arranged in accordance with the same method A media handling system comprises a configuration of N linked modules. Each module has an order based on the module's linkage in the configuration. Thus, a first module of order 1 links to a second module of order 2, the second module links to a third module of orde... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7104193 | Gravure printing plate and valuable document produced by the same The invention relates to an intaglio printing plate for producing a printing image with at least one engraved area in the printing plate surface, characterized in that the engraved area has one or more structural elements in which the edge area has a greater engravi... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7006258 | Image processing apparatus, control method therefor, and image processing system Conventionally in performing add-on processing of a predetermined code for input image data, a memory for transferring the input image data to an add-on processor and a memory for transferring it from the add-on processor to a subsequent processor cannot be shared. ... | 02/28/2006 |
| 6999204 | Document processing using color marking The present invention provides an apparatus, method and computer program for processing documents using color marking. The apparatus includes a color scanner, a memory and a processor. The color scanner creates an image of each document. The memory stores one or mor... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6976797 | Methods and systems for rendering printing marks in multiple device printing environments Methods and systems for rendering printing marks in multiple-device printing environments such as printshops are disclosed. In general, one or more printers among a plurality of printers in a multiple device printing environment can be identified for rendering a pri... | 12/20/2005 |
| 6954291 | Method, apparatus, and computer program for reducing plate material waste in flexography plate making Full-format screened data is processed in a computer-implemented method to identify zones that contain printable information. The zones are packed, imaged and made into flexo plates, and elements cut out from the plates for each zone of printable information. The pl... | 10/11/2005 |
| 6931991 | System for and method of manufacturing gravure printing plates A method of operating a laser drilling system to manufacture gravure printing plates without etching or the use of hazardous chemicals includes activating a laser drilling system, including a picosecond laser, light valves, and a mechanism adapted to rotate a gravur... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6859291 | Inkjet type color image processing apparatus for textile printing A textile printing apparatus is provided with an inputting device for inputting image data; a display to indicate an image based on the image data inputted by the inputting means; an image processing device for applying image processing to the image data so as to ma... | 02/22/2005 |
| 6840721 | Process for producing dies In a method for producing embossing plates, in particular steel intaglio printing plates, a plane element is determined from a line drawing, the edge of the plane element defining a desired contour. A tool track is then calculated from the desired contour and a desi... | 01/11/2005 |
| 6809841 | Marking print documents for visible ownership The present invention provides a method and system for marking pages printed for a print job in correspondence with an identification of a user that initiates a print job. The method may include indicating, to a printer, the identification of the user, selecting, by... | 10/26/2004 |
| 6768561 | Method for signal processing In a method for processing signals in an electronic engraving machine for engraving printing forms, in particular printing cylinders used for rotogravure, an engraving control signal is obtained by superimposing engraving data, representing tone values between “wh... | 07/27/2004 |
| 6741369 | Method for the operating an engraving member In a method for operating an engraving member in an electronic engraving machine to engrave printing forms, especially printing cylinders for intaglio printing, a stylus of the engraving member is controlled by an engraving signal and engraves a sequence of cups arr... | 05/25/2004 |
| 6714314 | Photographic print producing system In a print system provided with a printer and a first inputting device to input image data and first print service dealing information into the printer; there is further provided a second inputting device to input image data and second print service dealing informat... | 03/30/2004 |
| 6634286 | Engraving mechanism for electronic engraving machines An engraving element of an electronic engraving machine for engraving printing cylinders as a shaft oscillating with small rotational angles around the longitudinal axis, a restoring element, a shaft bearing, a damping mechanism, a drive for the shaft, a ... | 10/21/2003 |
| 6525839 | Engraving system and method for engraving intaglio and non-intaglio patterns An engraving method and apparatus for engraving a cylinder for printing an intaglio pattern and/or non-intaglio pattern on a web of material. The engraver includes a driver for rotatably driving the cylinder and a computer for controlling the operation of... | 02/25/2003 |
| 6433890 | System and method for improving printing of a leading edge of an image in a gravure printing process This invention relates to a system and method for intelligently placing in a periodic and/or random manner a plurality of whetting areas which facilitate lubricating and/or cooling a doctor blade in a printing press when the cylinder is placed therein. Th... | 08/13/2002 |
| 5892589 | Engraving system and method for engraving intaglio and non-intaglio patterns An engraving method and apparatus for engraving a cylinder for printing an intaglio pattern and/or non-intaglio pattern on a web of material. The engraver includes a driver for rotatably driving the cylinder and a computer for controlling the operation of... | 04/06/1999 |
| 5847837 | Gravure engraving system and method including engraving overlapping cells An adding portion 105 superposes a density signal (a signal having its level changing in accordance with a density of a printed image) from a density signal generator 101 on a carry signal (a signal in the form of a sine wave having a prescribed frequency... | 12/08/1998 |
| 5831745 | Gravure engraving system using two signals out of phase with each other for engraving a plurality of cells on a surface of a gravure cylinder An adding portion superposes a density signal (a signal having its level changing in accordance with a density of a printed image) from a density signal generator with a carrier signal (a signal in the form of a sine wave having a prescribed frequency and... | 11/03/1998 |
| 5675420 | Intaglio engraving method and apparatus This invention relates to an engraving method and apparatus for engraving a cylinder for printing an intaglio pattern on a web of material. The engraver comprises a driver for rotatably driving the cylinder and a computer for controlling the operation of ... | 10/07/1997 |
| 5229861 | Electronic gravure engraving apparatus including photo tone and character/solid tone processing A manuscript picture is inputted at a picture input unit (10) as a set of pixels having a density value. On the plate, cells corresponding to inputted respective pixels are engraved by a stylus (32). The stylus is vibrated by a drive device (33) and is sc... | 07/20/1993 |
