Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
101141000 | Rotary machines | 32 |
20090064879 | METHOD FOR OPERATING A SHAFTLESS PRINTING PRESS AND SHAFTLESS PRINTING PRESS - The present invention relates to a method for operating a shaftless printing press ( | 03-12-2009 |
20090071353 | FLEXOGRAPHIC PRINTER - A flexographic printing machine including at least one printing unit with an ink roller mounted at one end to a first sliding support and a plate-holding roller mounted at one end to a second sliding support, and at least one guide member for guiding the movements of the supports in directions parallel to an imaginary line which perpendicularly intersects the axes of the ink and plate-holding rollers. In addition, first upper and lower screws are provided parallel to said line above and below the axes of the ink and plate-holding rollers in order to move the first support, and second upper and lower screws are provided parallel to the line above and below the axes of the ink and plate-holding rollers in order to move the second support. | 03-19-2009 |
20090078134 | Flexographic Printing Press - A flexographic printing press is comprised of at least four printing cylinders which are each driven by a respective drive motor. These at least four printing cylinders cooperate directly with a common satellite cylinder during the printing of a web of material. Each of these printing cylinders supports at least one flexographic printing plate. Each end journal of such printing cylinder is mounted in at least one linear bearing that is located on a lateral frame, and which can be moved perpendicularly to the axis of rotation of the respective cylinder. A stator of each driving motor can be moved along with the associated linear bearing, or along with the printing cylinder. Each such drive motor is configured as a synchronous motor which is excited by a permanent magnet. An independent hydraulic actuator is assigned to each printing cylinder, to change the position of that printing cylinder. At least one linear bearing is arranged in a bearing unit which is placed on the interior wall of the respective lateral frame. The journals of each printing cylinder do not penetrate the lateral frames. | 03-26-2009 |
20090272283 | Devices Used for the Production of a Product - A product of a web-processing machine includes at least one partial product which is combined in a first format. Another partial product is combined in a second format that is different from the first format. When the two partial products are combined in a final product, one of the partial products protrudes from the other partial product. | 11-05-2009 |
20100050889 | Flexographic printing machine with a drying, desiccation , polymerization and/or heating device of the inked strip - Flexographic printing machine consisting of one or more printing stations ( | 03-04-2010 |
20100077932 | SOLVENT REMOVAL ASSISTED MATERIAL TRANSFER FOR FLEXOGRAPHIC PRINTING - Methods and systems for flexographic printing are discussed. The methods include removing solvent from a material to be transferred from a donor substrate to a feature of a flexographic printing plate. Solvent is removed from the material prior to transfer to the feature, resulting in improved transfer of the material to the feature. The systems include solvent removal apparatuses for facilitating removal of solvent from the material. | 04-01-2010 |
20100139510 | PRINTING FORM WITH THERMALLY INSULATING LAYER - Reusable printing forms and thermal image setting on the printing forms are optimized in terms of performance. The printing form includes a substrate and a thermally insulating layer that is formed on the substrate. The thermally insulating layer includes a multilayer system. The printing form can have images set on it with a low power image setting device since it is possible to effectively prevent heat from dissipating in an undesirably pronounced manner, for example, into a metallic carrier. | 06-10-2010 |
20100212522 | Processless development of printing plate - On-press development of an imaged printing plate on a plate cylinder, in which ink is applied by an ink form roll, a blanket roll is in contact with the plate, a rubber roll is opposed to the blanket roll, and printable media passes between the blanket roll and the rubber roll. The plate comprises a substrate carrying an imaged coating, in which nonimage areas have cohesion C | 08-26-2010 |
20110088576 | Lithographic printing press for processless plate - An imaged plate with an oleophilic resin coating non-ionically adhered on a hydrophilic substrate can be directly processed on-press by the application of disruptive mechanical tension forces to remove the unimaged areas as undissolved particles, using the tack of the ink on-press. | 04-21-2011 |
20110271855 | HIGH VOLTAGE EDLC CELL AND METHOD FOR THE MANUFACTURE THEREOF - A method of manufacturing an electrode includes printing an electrode ink on a portion of a substrate using a rotary lithographic printer. The electrode ink is allowed to dry on the substrate. A separator material is printed on the portion of the substrate using the rotary lithographic printer. A sealant wall is printed around the portion of the substrate using the rotary lithographic printer. | 11-10-2011 |
20120260812 | Method for Printing a Substrate Using an Anilox Roll, an Anilox Roll for a Printing Method and a Printing Apparatus - The invention relates to an anilox roll for a printing apparatus. The anilox roll comprises a cylinder having a surface. The surface comprises a fluid distribution structure for receiving, distributing and transferring a fluid such as an ink. The fluid distribution structure comprises a channel formed in the surface having channel walls. This channel is arranged for distributing the fluid over the fluid distribution structure. The channel comprises channel parts, wherein the courses of connected channel parts are at an angle with respect to each other for preventing a linear distribution of the fluids to be received in a course direction of the channel, allowing a meandering distribution of the fluid to be received in the channel. Side walls of the channel are arranged for allowing a meandering flow of the fluid throughout the fluid distribution surface. | 10-18-2012 |
20130269554 | MEMBER WITH CONCAVE PORTION AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME - Provided are a member with recessed portions which solves the problem of fogging, and a method of manufacturing the same. The member with recessed portions, includes: a printing area in which a large number of recessed portions are formed on a surface thereof; and a non-printing area in which the recessed portions are not formed on the surface thereof, the surface being brought into contact with a viscous material so that the viscous material accumulates in the recessed portions, the excess viscous material being scraped off the surface by causing a doctor blade to horizontally stick up on the surface and relatively moving the doctor blade. The member with recessed portions further includes: a base member having the printing area in which the large number of recessed portions are formed on the surface and the non-printing area in which the recessed portions are not formed on the surface; and a DLC coating formed so as to cover the printing area and the non-printing area. The surface is provided with a plurality of grinding traces, which are formed by grinding the DLC coating, and form an inclined angle of other than 0° and 90° with respect to an imaginary extension of the doctor blade which horizontally sticks up on the surface. | 10-17-2013 |
20140144338 | FLEXOGRAPHIC PRINTING UNIT WITH KNEE LEVER SYSTEM AND NARROW WEB LABEL PRINTING PRESS HAVING AT LEAST ONE FLEXOGRAPHIC PRINTING UNIT - A flexographic printing unit includes an engraved roll, a form cylinder and an impression cylinder. Axes of rotation of the engraved roll and the form cylinder are disposed in a horizontal plane and axes of rotation of the form cylinder and the impression cylinder are disposed in a vertical plane. The printing unit has at least one knee lever system for applying a pretensioning force to the form cylinder. A narrow web label printing press having at least one flexographic printing unit is also provided. | 05-29-2014 |
20160193827 | PLANOGRAPHIC PRINTING SYSTEM AND A PLANOGRAPHIC PRINTING METHOD | 07-07-2016 |
101142000 | Transfer | 17 |
20080196609 | System and Method for Inkjet Printing - A system and method for making an image printing plate and for positioning control of a lithographic printing plate in the system. The system includes a carrier plate for supporting the printing plate for thereby increasing image quality, and a controlled curing device for improved accuracy of curing. | 08-21-2008 |
20080196610 | ADJUSTING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR ROTARY PRINTING MACHINE - A device for adjusting the position of a printing unit with respect to a printing web in a rotary printing machine comprising a control unit operable for controlling the movement of the printing unit from a predefined initial position P | 08-21-2008 |
20090090258 | Cylinder throw-on/off apparatus and cylinder throw-on/off method for printing press - In a cylinder throw-on/off apparatus for a printing press, a cylinder throw-on/off motor is driven while the notch of a blanket cylinder opposes the notch of a plate cylinder to throw on/off the blanket cylinder with respect to the plate cylinder, and driven while the notch of the blanket cylinder opposes the notch of an impression cylinder to throw on/off the blanket cylinder with respect to the impression cylinder. A throw-on operation control unit drives the cylinder throw-on/off motor, to control throw-on operation of the blanket cylinder for the plate cylinder and the impression cylinder. A motor drive amount calculation unit obtains a drive amount of the cylinder throw-on/off motor, while controlling the throw-on operation of the blanket cylinder, in accordance with the rotation phase of the printing press. | 04-09-2009 |
20090282994 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FORMING DEBIT CARD USING IMPROVED PRINT CYLINDER MECHANISM - A flexographic printing station prints at least one print stripe of opaque scratch-off coating onto the surface of the card over a PIN as a card member is advanced into a printing station. A print cylinder has a circumferential printing surface that engages an Anilox metering roll and receives the scratch-off coating therefrom and transfers the scratch-off coating from the printing surface onto the surface of the debit card. A controller controls movement of the print cylinder via a mounting mechanism into and out of engagement with the surface of the debit card at a predetermined location and for a predetermined length of time to apply at least one print stripe of predetermined length onto the surface of the debit card based on the length of time the printing surface engages the surface of the debit card. | 11-19-2009 |
20100229741 | Method For Producing A Pseudo-Stochastic Master Surface, Master Surface, Method For Producing A Cylinder Cover, Cylinder Cover, Machine Processing Printing Material, Method For Producing Printed Products And Method For Microstamping Printing Products - A method for producing a pseudo-stochastic master surface for producing a cover or jacket of a cylinder for contacting printing material, includes providing the master surface with a pseudo-stochastic distribution of microsurfaces. The master surface is produced on the basis of a digital master in a jacket preliminary stage and serves for a preferably galvanic production of a microstructured cover, in which structure elevations correlate with the microsurfaces. The pseudo-stochastic distribution helps to avoid disruptive discernible effects, for example the moiré effect and helps to construct the microstructuring in a targeted manner. A master surface, a method for producing a cylinder cover, a cylinder cover, a machine for processing printing material, a method for producing printed products and a method for microstamping printed products, are also provided. | 09-16-2010 |
20120192735 | FOUNTAIN SOLUTIONS FOR OFFSET LITHOGRAPHIC PRINTING INKS - A fountain solution for offset lithographic printing ink includes water, one or more surfactants, and a dynamic surface tension of less than 30 dynes/cm. The fountain solution can further include an interfacial tension between the fountain solution and the offset lithographic printing ink of less than 10 dynes/cm. The press waste of a print run applying the fountain solution is reduced to less than 5%. An offset lithographic printing system includes a fountain solution and an offset lithographic printing ink, and the press waste of the offset lithographic printing system is less than 5%. | 08-02-2012 |
20130239831 | PRINTING DEVICE AND PRINTING METHOD - Provided are a reverse offset printing apparatus and a reverse offset printing method, including: a printed film supplying unit and a printed film collecting unit for continuously supplying a printed film; a printed film supporting unit provided between the printed film supplying unit and the printed film collecting unit; a printing roll for transferring a printed matter pattern to the printed film on the printed film supporting unit, in which the printed roll is provided so that a progress direction of the printed film is parallel to a rotation direction of the printing roll at a place where the printed matter pattern is transferred; a coating unit coating a printed matter on the printing roll; and a cliché provided on a stage for mounting the cliché in order to form the printed matter pattern on the printing roll. | 09-19-2013 |
20140013972 | Imaging System With Electrophotographic Patterning of an Image Definition Material and Methods Therefor - A system comprises an electrophotographic subsystem, a transfer subsystem, an imaging member, and an inking subsystem. The electrophotographic subsystem comprises a photoreceptor, a charging subsystem, an exposure subsystem, and a development subsystem. In operation, the photoreceptor is charged areawise. An exposure pattern is formed by the exposure subsystem on the surface of the charged photoreceptor to thereby write a latent charge image onto the photoreceptor surface. The image is developed with an image defining material, such as a dampening fluid. The image defining material forms a negative pattern of the image to be printed. This negative image is then transferred to the reimageable surface. The negative image is then developed with ink. The inked image may be transferred to a substrate. | 01-16-2014 |
20140245912 | METHOD OF PRINTING UNIFORM LINE WIDTHS WITH ANGLE EFFECT - A method of printing uniform line widths with angle effect includes transferring ink to a flexo master comprising printing patterns disposed at an adjusted angle relative to a directional printing axis and transferring ink from the flexo master to a substrate. A flexographic printing system includes an ink roll, an anilox roll, a plate cylinder, a flexo master, and an impression cylinder. The flexo master is disposed on a plate cylinder. The flexo master includes printing patterns disposed at an adjusted angle relative to a directional printing axis. | 09-04-2014 |
20140245913 | METHOD OF MOUNTING A FLEXOGRAPHIC PRINTING PLATE WITH STRUCTURED PATTERNED BACKING TAPE - A method of mounting a flexographic printing plate with structured patterned backing tape includes attaching a first end of a structured patterned backing tape to a printing plate cylinder at a scribe line. The structured patterned backing tape is wrapped around the printing plate cylinder. A second end of the structured patterned backing tape is cut at the scribe line. A first end of a flexographic printing plate is attached to the printing plate cylinder at an offset seam location ahead of the scribe line. The flexographic printing plate is wrapped around the printing plate cylinder. A second end of the flexographic printing plate is cut at the offset seam location. | 09-04-2014 |
20140245914 | METHOD OF MOUNTING A FLEXOGRAPHIC PRINTING PLATE TO AVOID BANDING - A method of mounting a flexographic printing plate includes disposing a backing tape on a printing plate cylinder forming a taped printing plate cylinder. A transverse center of the flexographic printing plate is attached to the taped printing plate cylinder at a mount line offset relative to a scribe line of the printing plate cylinder. A first portion of the flexographic printing plate is wrapped around a first portion of the taped printing plate cylinder from the mount line outward in a first direction away from the mount line. A second portion of the flexographic printing plate is wrapped around a second portion of the taped printing plate cylinder from the mount line outward in a second direction away from the mount line. The mount line is offset relative to the scribe line at a distance that ensures banding occurs in a non-patterned non-printing area of the flexographic printing plate. | 09-04-2014 |
20140352560 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DELIVERING AQUEOUS PEARLESCENT DIGITAL PRINTING INK COMPOSITIONS USING DIGITAL OFFSET LITHOGRAPHIC PRINTING TECHNIQUES - A system and method are provided for producing variable pearlescent image elements or portions on image receiving media substrates using a variable digital data offset lithographic architecture which provides for varying lithographic images between cycles of a marking device. Pearlescent inks are provided with a solid particle pearlescent pigment components in a proportion of at least 10% by weight suspended in solution in an ink composition. Pearlescent inks are provided with a solid particle pearlescent pigment components having particle sizes in excess of ten microns suspended in solution in the ink composition. The disclosed systems and methods provide for variable pearlescent image elements or portions to be formed on an image receiving medium substrate separate from, or in combination with, other ink image elements or portions applied using other inks in a single device, and/or in a single pass of the image receiving media substrates through an image forming system. | 12-04-2014 |
20150090136 | CLOSED LOOP INK THICKNESS CONTROL SYSTEM WITH REDUCED SUBSTRATE WASTE IN A PRINTING PRESS - A method is provided of charging an inker in a lithographic printing press. The method comprises placing all of the printing units of the printing press in an off impression position, with a continuous substrate passing through the printing units, each printing unit including a blanket cylinder; and in one or more printing units of the plurality of printing units, moving the takeaway roller into contact with the blanket cylinder of the printing unit. Thereafter, the method includes driving the ink train, plate cylinder, blanket cylinder and the take away roller at a first surface speed, whereby the ink from the ink train transmitted to the plate cylinder from the ink train, from the plate cylinder to the blanket cylinder, and from the blanket cylinder to the take away roller; and during said driving step, keeping the continuous substrate stationary or moving the continuous substrate at a second surface speed less than 50% of the first surface speed. Also provided is a closed loop control system for controlling the ink film thickness applied to a printed substrate in a lithographic printing press. | 04-02-2015 |
20150090137 | INDEPENDENT INKER CONTROL AND METHOD - A method of inking a substrate in a printing press is provided. The printing press includes a plurality of printing units, each printing unit includes a blanket cylinder, a plate cylinder and an inker. The method includes the steps of running the plate cylinder, blanket cylinder and inker at a press speed, driving the inker independently, printing on a substrate with a desired ink film thickness at the press speed and stopping the press for a press stop event. Stopping the press further includes stopping the inker at a maximum stop rate, stopping the plate cylinder and blanket cylinder at a normal stop rate and moving the plate cylinder and blanket cylinder into an off impression position. The method further includes ramping the plate cylinder and blanket cylinder up to a desired press speed, ramping the inker up to press independently so as to match the speed of plate cylinder, returning the plate cylinder and blanket cylinder to an on impression position and printing on the substrate with the desired ink film thickness at the desired press speed. | 04-02-2015 |
20150306866 | Printers, Methods and Apparatus to Form an Image on a Print Substrate - Printers, methods, and apparatus to form an image on a substrate are disclosed. An example apparatus ( | 10-29-2015 |
20150343756 | VARIABLE FORMAT OFFSET PRINTING MACHINE HAVING A CENTRAL IMPRESSION CYLINDER - Variable format offset printing machine having a central impression cylinder The printing machine comprises a central impression cylinder ( | 12-03-2015 |
101143000 | Web with interrupter | 1 |
20090025583 | Variable cutoff printing unit with belt blanket and method of printing - A variable cutoff printing press is provided. The variable cutoff printing press includes a first plate cylinder, a second plate cylinder, a continuous belt blanket contacting the first and second plate cylinders and a movable support cylinder supporting the belt blanket. The first and second plate cylinders, the continuous belt blanket and the movable support cylinder form a first print section and the movable support cylinder is movable to change the print length of the first print section. A method of printing images with a printing press is also provided. | 01-29-2009 |
101145000 | Interrupter | 1 |
20100005984 | HAND PROOFER TOOL - A proofing tool including an anilox roll and a transfer roll that are shiftable relative to each other between an engaged position and a disengaged position. The invention further includes a positive rotational linkage between the transfer roll and a drive roll whereby a pitch velocity of the transfer roll and a pitch velocity of the transfer roll are substantially matched. | 01-14-2010 |