| Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
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| 101150000 | INTAGLIO | 79 |
| 20110290129 | Device and Method for Magnetically Transferring Indicia to a Coating Composition Applied to a Substrate - There is described a device and method for magnetically transferring indicia to a coating composition, such as an ink or varnish, applied to at least a part of the surface of a substrate, the coating composition comprising at least one type of magnetic or magnetizable particles. The device comprises a body subjected to a magnetic field generated by appropriate electromagnetic means, which body carries determined indicia in the form of engravings on a surface of the body, which engravings influence orientation of field lines of the magnetic field. The body comprises at least one layer of material of high magnetic permeability in which the engravings are formed. In unengraved regions of the layer of material of high magnetic permeability, the field lines of the magnetic field extend substantially parallel to the surface of the body inside said layer of material of high magnetic permeability. | 12-01-2011 |
| 101151000 | Multicolor | 4 |
| 20120222568 | APPARATUS FOR APPLYING INDICIA HAVING A LARGE COLOR GAMUT ON WEB SUBSTRATES - A gravure printing system is disclosed. The gravure printing system is provided with a central roll having a first plurality of discrete cells disposed upon an outer surface thereof. Each cell of the first plurality of discrete cells is capable of receiving a fluid that is a first combination of at least two primary fluids. Each of the at least two primary fluids are placed in fluid contact at a first position internal to the central roll. The first combination of at least two primary fluids is fluidically displaceable into a first cell of the first plurality of discrete cells from a second position internal to the central roll. | 09-06-2012 |
| 20120222567 | APPARATUS FOR APPLYING INDICIA HAVING A LARGE COLOR GAMUT ON WEB SUBSTRATES - A contact printing system is disclosed. The contact printing system can print X colors upon a web substrate in the machine direction. The contact printing system has X−Y printing components where X and Y are whole numbers, 01. | 09-06-2012 |
| 101152000 | Rotary machines | 2 |
| 20100089261 | Method and Apparatus for Forming an Ink Pattern Exhibiting a Two-Dimensional Ink Gradient - There is described a method and an inking apparatus ( | 04-15-2010 |
| 20110259219 | A Method of Printing - The present invention relates to a method of printing on a polymeric film using a gravure printing press, a method of making rollers for a gravure printing press and a set of gravure rollers. The invention enables standardised process colours such as, CYMK colours to be combined to from non-standardised process colours such as, secondary and tertiary colours via a select range of screen angles and screen rulings. | 10-27-2011 |
| 101153000 | Rotary | 27 |
| 20090145314 | Intaglio Printing Methods, Apparatuses, and Printed or Coated Materials Made Therewith - Intaglio printing methods and apparatuses are disclosed, involving the use of a curable resin composition (e.g., curable by actinic radiation). The composition may be applied to a substrate, such as a printable material, at a depth of 250 μm or more, in order to create a desirable, three-dimensional effect. To produce this type of printed or coated substrate, the composition is first transferred to cells or recesses, having a depth of these dimensions, onto a printing surface (e.g., a gravure cylinder) and then at least partially cured. The at least partially cured composition is then transferred to the substrate (e.g., paper or plastic) where additional curing may occur, to produce the final printed or coated article. | 06-11-2009 |
| 20130092038 | APPARATUS FOR DIGITAL FLEXOGRAPHIC PRINTING - A digital flexography system includes an imaging member with a charge generating layer formed from an array of addressable pixels and a charge transport layer thereon. Ink is delivered to the imaging member using a simple rough donor roll, rather than an anilox roll. Instead of controlling the amount of ink delivered using the anilox roll, the amount of ink is controlled by the pixels on the imaging member. | 04-18-2013 |
| 20130112095 | INTAGLIO PRINTING PRESS WITH MOBILE CARRIAGE SUPPORTING INK-COLLECTING CYLINDER - There is described an intaglio printing press comprising (i) a stationary machine frame ( | 05-09-2013 |
| 20120222572 | APPARATUS FOR APPLYING INDICIA HAVING A LARGE COLOR GAMUT ON WEB SUBSTRATES - A contact printing system is disclosed. The contact printing system has a central roll having a plurality of discrete cells disposed upon an outer surface thereof. Adjacent cells of the plurality of discrete cells each have a fluid disposed therein from a respective location internal to the central roll. Each fluid is disposable from each of the cells to a web substrate and provides a resultant color upon the web substrate having a 2-D gamut boundary represented by a defined system of CIELab equations. | 09-06-2012 |
| 20120222570 | APPARATUS FOR APPLYING INDICIA HAVING A LARGE COLOR GAMUT ON WEB SUBSTRATES - A gravure printing system is disclosed. The gravure printing system of the present disclosure is provided with a central roll having a plurality of discrete cells disposed upon an outer surface thereof. A first of the plurality of discrete cells receives a first fluid from a first position internal to the central roll and a second of the plurality of discrete cells receives a second fluid from a second position internal to the central roll, the first fluid being different from the second fluid. The first and second cells are disposed adjacent each other upon the outer surface. | 09-06-2012 |
| 20110192297 | PRINTING SYSTEM HAVING A RAISED IMAGE PRINTING CYLINDER - A printing arrangement having a rotatable printing cylinder and raised image and non-raised non-image portions on the circumference of the printing cylinder. The arrangement has an array of smooth rollers for applying an ink onto the image on the printing cylinder and not applying ink onto the non-image portion. A first smooth roller is mounted for rotation near the printing cylinder and a second smooth roller mounted for rotation near the first roller forming an ink gap between the two smooth rollers. Ink is dispersed across the first smooth roller and applied onto the image on the printing cylinder. The arrangement has a rotatable counter pressure cylinder mounted with the printing cylinder such that when a web is passed through a gap between the printing and counter pressure cylinders, and when ink applied to the image portion on the printing cylinder, ink is transferred from the image onto the substrate material. | 08-11-2011 |
| 20080289520 | PRINTING ROLLER APPARATUS AND METHOD - A printing roller apparatus and method are for use with ink and a gel carried on an operatively rotating casting drum. The apparatus and method include a print roller and a drive member. The print roller has an exterior print surface rollably engaging the gel. The drive member directly engages the casting drum and operatively rotates the print roller, such that the print surface moves coincident with the gel carried on the operatively rotating casting drum. An even distribution of the ink is transferred from the print surface to the gel, so as to clearly print at least one print indicium thereon. | 11-27-2008 |
| 20120192736 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MOUNTING PARTICLES ON A CARRIER - Method and apparatus for individually positioning and mounting particles on a target carrier according to a predefined pattern. In particular the particles are spheres of an electrically chargeable material with a diameter in the range of 10 micrometer up to one millimeter and are electrically conductive. | 08-02-2012 |
| 20090249971 | Printing machine and method for its calibration - The printing machine comprises a central roller ( | 10-08-2009 |
| 20080271619 | Printing Blanket - In order to subject optically variable elements to lower stresses in a printing blanket ( | 11-06-2008 |
| 20100294149 | INTAGLIO PRINTING PRESS - An intaglio printing press includes: an intaglio cylinder; an ink collecting cylinder which has a blanket attached to a circumferential surface of the collecting cylinder, is in contact with the intaglio cylinder, and transfers ink onto the intaglio cylinder; multiple chablon rollers which are in contact with the ink collecting cylinder and transfer ink onto the ink collecting cylinder; and an inking device which feeds ink to the chablon rollers. In the intaglio printing press, a work space is formed between the chablon roller located at the highest position and the chablon roller immediately below the highest chablon roller. The work space allows an access to the ink collecting cylinder without detachment of the chablon rollers. | 11-25-2010 |
| 20090211472 | GRAVURE PRINTING METHOD WITH EXCHANGEABLE PRINTING PLATE - A gravure printing system has a roll body extending along and rotatable about a roll axis and formed with a radially outwardly open and axially extending recess. The roll body has an outer surface with a region outside the surface lying on a cylinder centered on the axis. A generally part-cylindrical printing plate fitted over the roll body has angularly adjacent ends extending radially into the recess. These ends of the plate are fastened to the roll body in the recess. The plate also has an outer surface with a part-cylindrical central part centered on the axis and a pair of end parts flanking the recess and angled inward from the central part so as to define with the axis radii that are increasingly shorter from the central part to the recess. | 08-27-2009 |
| 20130008328 | REVERSE GRAVURE OFFSET PRINTING METHOD AND APPARATUS USING DISPOSABLE CLICHE - Disclosed are a reverse gravure offset printing method and apparatus using a disposable cliche, which do not require cleaning of the cliche and do not require a large quantity of high-definition cliches because the cliche used in reverse gravure offset printing can be discarded after used once or several times and replaced with a new one, thereby achieving cost reduction. | 01-10-2013 |
| 20120312179 | INTAGLIO PRINTING PRESS WITH INK-COLLECTING CYLINDER - There is described an intaglio printing press comprising (i) a stationary machine frame ( | 12-13-2012 |
| 20120222571 | APPARATUS FOR APPLYING INDICIA HAVING A LARGE COLOR GAMUT ON WEB SUBSTRATES - A contact printing system is disclosed. The contact printing system is provided with a central roll having a plurality of discrete cells disposed upon an outer surface thereof. Each of the plurality of discrete cells is in fluidic communication with a respective fluid delivery channel. Each of the fluid delivery channels are formed in situ with the formation of the central roll and the plurality of cells. | 09-06-2012 |
| 20120222569 | APPARATUS FOR APPLYING INDICIA HAVING A LARGE COLOR GAMUT ON WEB SUBSTRATES - A gravure printing system is disclosed. The gravure printing system has a central roll with a plurality of discrete cells disposed upon an outer surface thereof. A first of the plurality of discrete cells are capable of receiving at least one fluid and a second of the plurality of discrete cells are capable of receiving at least two fluids. Each of the fluids is fluidically displaced into the first and second cells from a position internal to the central roll. | 09-06-2012 |
| 20110283905 | GRAVURE OFFSET PRINTING PRESS - A gravure offset printing press includes a first gravure plate cylinder, second gravure plate cylinder, blanket cylinder, and impression cylinder. The first gravure plate cylinder includes, on its circumferential surface, a first recess to be filled with ink. The second gravure plate cylinder includes, on its circumferential surface, a second recess which is to be filled with ink and has a width in its circumferential direction, that is larger than that of the first recess. The blanket cylinder comes into contact with the first gravure plate cylinder and the second gravure plate cylinder to receive the inks from the first and the second gravure plate cylinders. The contact position between the second gravure plate cylinder and the blanket cylinder is located upstream, in the rotation direction of the blanket cylinder, of the contact position between the first gravure plate cylinder and the blanket cylinder. | 11-24-2011 |
| 101154000 | Transfer with scraper wiper | 3 |
| 20090090259 | Segmented Gravure Print Cylinder System - A print station has print cylinder with axially spaced segments for printing different coating materials on a substrate at a single print station. The coating material is stored in adjacent wells separated by walls within a trough. The walls may be notched to receive the shaft of the print cylinder with each of the print cylinder segments disposed in one of the wells for receiving the coating material. Each of the print cylinder segments can receive the coating material from its respective well and then simultaneously in the respective well and applying it to a substrate. | 04-09-2009 |
| 20090288567 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANUFACTURING ELECTRONIC DEVICE USING ROLL-TO-ROLL ROTARY PRESSING PROCESS - The present invention discloses an apparatus for manufacturing electronic devices using a roll-to-roll rotary pressing process, comprising a winding roll around which flexible printing paper is wound; a plurality of printing units arranged in a straight line; at least one coating unit; a rewinding roll to rewind the printing paper when printing has been completed; a plurality of guide rolls arranged between the winding roll and the rewinding roll, thus guiding the printing paper; a plurality of drying units, each drying unit being provided on a printing paper-path between the printing unit and the adjacent guide roll to dry ink transferred to the printing paper or on a printing paper-path between the coating unit and the adjacent guide roll to dry the printing paper on which coating agent is supplied; and tension regulating units installed around the winding roll and the rewinding roll, respectively, for regulating tension of the printing paper. | 11-26-2009 |
| 20120227598 | PLATE CYLINDER, PRINTING DEVICE AND PRINTING METHOD - A plate cylinder includes a base body with a cylindrical shape which is rotated in a predetermined direction and a pattern plate which is provided on an outer circumference surface of the base body and is rotated integrally with the base body and where a plurality of concave sections, which configures a predetermined printing pattern and is filled with conductive ink, is formed, where a blade, which wipes away the conductive ink which protrudes from the concave sections, contacts the outer circumference surface of the pattern plate, a blanket roll, to which the conductive ink is transferred and which performs printing by transferring the transferred conductive ink to a printing medium, contacts the outer circumference surface of the pattern plate, and a wall, which regulates infiltration of the blade and the blanket roll into the concave sections, is provided in the concave sections. | 09-13-2012 |
| 101155000 | Wiper | 7 |
| 101156000 | Web | 1 |
| 20100139511 | Intaglio Printing Press Systems for Recto-Verso Intaglio-Printing of Sheets for the Production of Banknotes and Like Securities - Intaglio printing press systems for recto-verso intaglio printing of sheets, in particular for the production of banknotes and the like securities, wherein first and second intaglio printing presses ( | 06-10-2010 |
| 101157000 | Scraper | 6 |
| 20100116158 | DOCTOR BLADE SYSTEM FOR PRINT UNIT INTENDED FOR A PHOTOGRAVURE PRINTING MACHINE - A doctor blade system intended for a print unit includes a doctor blade support provided with a blade, an edge of the blade is able to come into contact with a peripheral surface of an engraved printing cylinder, a supporting hub, on which the doctor blade support is mounted, a structure fixing the supporting hub to a frame of the print unit. Apparatus provides a reciprocating motion of the blade along the peripheral surface of the engraved cylinder roughly parallel to the axis of revolution of the engraved cylinder. Thrust elements drive movement of the blade along the direction of the peripheral surface of the engraved cylinder. The reciprocating apparatus directly drives the doctor blade support. The thrust element or elements move the supporting hub and the doctor blade support and the blade to maintain a constant contact over the entire length of the edge of the blade with the peripheral surface of the engraved cylinder. | 05-13-2010 |
| 20100258015 | INK PAN SYSTEM FOR A ROTOGRAVURE PRINTING PRESS - An improved ink system for a single pan design of a rotogravure printing press includes: the reservoir enclosing a substantial portion of the gravure cylinder; the intake section bottom having a slope at the bottom of the intake section; an intake port through the bottom of the intake section; an outtake port through the bottom of the outtake section; the outtake section bottom having a slope at the bottom of the outtake section sloping toward the outtake port; a dam release lever connected to the gate and extending outside of the reservoir, a plurality of channels through the vortex promoter; a pre-wipe bar located between the doctor blade and the vortex promoter; journal port seals located on each side of the gravure cylinder; and an angled doctor blade holder. | 10-14-2010 |
| 20110219968 | Printing Unit with Curved Sealing Doctor Blade - A printing unit with a rotary roller and an ink chamber with an elastic sealing doctor blade ( | 09-15-2011 |
| 20080216683 | Apparatus for Coating a Cylinder in Particular a Wiping Cylinder of an Intaglio Printing Press - There is described an apparatus ( | 09-11-2008 |
| 20110259220 | GRAVURE PRINTING PRESS - A gravure printing press includes a gravure plate cylinder which includes, on its circumferential surface, a plurality of recesses that form image areas upon being filled with ink, an ink supply device which supplies the ink onto the circumferential surface of the gravure plate cylinder, a first blade which comes into contact with the circumferential surface of the gravure plate cylinder at a contact angle of less than 45°, and a second blade which comes into contact with the circumferential surface of the gravure plate cylinder at a contact angle of more than 45°. | 10-27-2011 |
| 20100319558 | CHAMBER DOCTOR BLADE ON A PRINTING MACHINE - The invention describes a chamber doctor blade ( | 12-23-2010 |
| 101158000 | Bed-and-cylinder machines | 6 |
| 20110107927 | Gravure Printing Method - A gravure printing method is provided that includes: patterning a substrate to form a printing substrate having a recess portion and a convex portion; forming a first self-assembled monolayer on the surface of the recess portion; forming a second self-assembled monolayer on the surface of the convex portion; filling ink into the recess portion; and transferring the ink filled in the recess portion to a printing object substrate, wherein the first and second self-assembled monolayers respectively formed on the surfaces of the recess portion and the convex portion have different surface energies. | 05-12-2011 |
| 20110290130 | Lightweight portable intaglio printing press - A lightweight portable intaglio press comprises three assemblies: a print table assembly, a side rail assembly and print head assembly. A work piece is positioned on the upper surface of print table assembly (the platen) and between left and right side mounting rail of the side rail assembly. The print head assembly comprises a frame, a print roller rotationally affixed to the frame, a pair of side rail rollers rotationally affixed on either side of the frame and substantially above and behind the print roller on the frame and a pair of handle levers securely affixed to the frame forward of the print roller. An increase in downward force on the work piece at the print roller is realized and related to the ratio of distance between the pair of side rail rollers and the print roller, to the distance between the print roller and the point on the pair of handle levers where downward force is applied. In operation, an operator exerts a downward force on the handles and moves the print head assembly forward and then backward between the left and right side mounting rail and over the work piece. | 12-01-2011 |
| 20110297022 | DEVICES AND METHODS FOR INTAGLIO PRINTMAKING ON CANVAS - Devices and methods for intaglio printmaking on canvas are described herein. The devices and methods provide advantages that include permanent intaglio printmaking on canvas. | 12-08-2011 |
| 20100089262 | METHOD OF PRINTING FINE PATTERNS BY INTAGLIO PRINTING AND PRINTING SYSTEM FOR PRINTING FINE PATTERNS BY INTAGLIO PRINTING - A method of printing fine patterns prints a fine pattern on a substrate using an elastic mold with an intaglio pattern. This method includes applying a fine pattern printing ink to a surface of a patterned elastic mold; removing the ink applied to an embossed portion of the elastic mold by closely adhering an ink removing unit having a polymer resin or an organic compound with a surface energy from | 04-15-2010 |
| 20080250953 | Portable intaglio printing press - The present invention is directed to a novel intaglio printing press and a method for intaglio print making using the intaglio printing press described herein. The present invention is comprised generally of two assemblies: a press bed assembly and a print head assembly. The print head assembly serves as a first class lever within a pair of surfaces of a press bed assembly that define runway. The runway structure of the press bed assembly confines the force applied to the print head assembly and translates that force into a pressure directed to the print paper covered and inked artwork. The print paper and inked artwork are positioned proximate to the lower surface and the print head portion of the print head assembly is situated between the artwork and the upper surface. The print head assembly comprises one or more lever handles, a compression roller and one or more track roller. The lever handle(s) provide a torque lever for receiving a manually exerted downward force and to provide a handle for moving the print head assembly along the runway, thereby making compression passes across the artwork. The track roller and compression roller are secured a predetermined distance from each other and within a housing that forces the compression roller against the print paper and inked artwork at the lower surface of the runway and simultaneously forces the track roller (or bearings) against the upper surface of the runway. Printmaking proceeds one pass at a time across the lateral extent of the print paper covered artwork. | 10-16-2008 |
| 20110023736 | METHOD OF FORMING INK PATTERNS AND APPARATUS FOR PRINTING INK PATTERNS - A method of forming ink patterns and an apparatus for printing ink patterns capable of reducing the amount of wasted ink and enhancing the printing and positional precision of the shape of ink patterns on a member to be printed, are described herein. The method includes providing a first printing member including first concave portions formed by engraving patterns larger than final ink patterns, that are to be printed on a member, on the first printing member; filling the first concave portions of the first printing member with ink; transferring the ink filling the first concave portions of the first printing member onto a blanket cylinder to form intermediate ink patterns; providing a second printing member including second concave portions formed by engraving patterns equal in size to the final ink patterns that are to be printed on the member, on the second printing member; closely attaching the blanket cylinder having the intermediate patterns to the second printing member to remove ink on portions of the blanket cylinder that contact convex portions of the second printing member, from the blanket cylinder; and printing ink that remains on the blanket cylinder, on the member to form the final ink patterns. | 02-03-2011 |
| 101163000 | Bed and platen | 8 |
| 20090277349 | ROTATING CLICHE PAD PRINTER - A rotating cliché pad printer includes a frame, a flat cliché operably mounted to the frame, an ink cup configured to reside on the cliché and a pad applicator. The cliché includes at least one etched region and is adapted to receive ink thereon in the etched region. The ink cup is configured to reside on the cliché and to deposit ink into the at least one etched region. The cliché and ink cup are rotatably movable relative to one another. The pad applicator includes at least one pad adapted to move into and out of contact with the at least one etched region to receive ink from the etched region. The pad is further configured to contact an associated object to transfer the received ink to the associated object. | 11-12-2009 |
| 20080276813 | Method and Apparatus for Printing a Patterned Layer on a Flatsubstate with a Flat-Type-Bed - A method of printing a patterned layer comprises (step | 11-13-2008 |
| 20090178583 | PAD PRINTING SYSTEM WITH INDEPENDENT AND VARIABLE COMPRESSION DEVICE - A pad printing system includes a doctor assembly comprising a cliché, an ink cup, and a variable hold down force system configured to apply a variable force to the ink cup and doctor assembly responsive to a direction of travel. | 07-16-2009 |
| 20110011290 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS APPLYING A DESIGN ON A MEDIUM - Disclosed herein are systems and methods for applying a design on a medium. In some embodiments, the system includes a letterpress assembly having a base and platen that may be configured in an open configuration and a closed configuration. In the open configuration, the base receives the medium and the platen receives a printing plate. The printing plate may include the design to be applied to the medium. A roller assembly may then receive the letterpress assembly in the closed configuration and may exert a compressive force on the letterpress assembly. The compressive force brings the medium into contact with the printing plate and applies the design on the medium. | 01-20-2011 |
| 20110023737 | PAD PRINGTING MACHINE - A pad printing machine comprising at least one inverted planetary roller threaded drive ( | 02-03-2011 |
| 20100095859 | Ink Cup Assembly - An ink cup assembly for a printing machine is disclosed as including an outer cup body with a recess, and an inner cup body with a cavity for containing an ink, the inner cup body being made of polyethylene, and a main body portion of the inner cup body is received within the recess of the outer cup body for releasably engaging the inner cup body with the outer cup body. | 04-22-2010 |
| 20120073459 | PAD PRINTING MACHINE - A pad printing machine with a holder for a printing plate includes an ink supply device having a hollow body which rests with its front face on the printing plate during operation of the machine, a device for producing a relative movement between the printing plate and the hollow body, and a printing pad which can be pressed onto the inked printing plate and receives the ink from recesses in the printing plate and transfers the ink to an object to be printed. The drive assembly for the relative movement between the hollow body and the printing plate has a rotatably driven first cam and the drive assembly for the pad has a rotatably driven second cam, wherein both cams are arranged on a single control disc. | 03-29-2012 |
| 20110023738 | PAD PRINTING MACHINE - A pad printing machine including at least one pad holder and an object carrier which is positionally displaceably relative to the pad holder and is designed to receive one or more objects, where said pad printing machine further comprises a setup print image receiving element at a fixed distance from the object carrier, further an image recorder to generate an image of at least one zone of the setup print image receiving element, a position deviation detector ascertaining the deviation of the actual position of a print image situated on the print image receiving element from a reference position defined by reference data, and a position shift ascertaining element to ascertain the shift of the object carrier relative to a reference position, as well as a method for printing objects using a pad printing machine. | 02-03-2011 |
| 101167000 | Wipers | 12 |
| 20130042773 | WIPING DEVICE - A wiping device includes an intaglio cylinder, a cylinder cleaning device, and a wiping liquid supply device. The intaglio cylinder is rotatably supported. The cylinder cleaning device removes excess ink adhered to an outer surface of the intaglio cylinder. The wiping liquid supply device supplies a wiping liquid for cleaning to the cylinder cleaning device. The wiping liquid supply device includes a waste liquid tank, a new liquid tank, a first pump, and second pump. The waste liquid tank stores a waste wiping liquid discharged from the cylinder cleaning device. The new liquid tank stores a clean wiping liquid. The first pump supplies the clean wiping liquid from the new liquid tank to the cylinder cleaning device. The second pump supplies a supernatant liquid of the waste wiping liquid stored in the waste liquid tank and separated into a precipitate and the supernatant liquid to the cylinder cleaning device. | 02-21-2013 |
| 20100236432 | Process for Producing Security Papers, Intaglio Printing Press for Implementing Said Process, and Security Paper Produced According to Said Process - There is described process for producing security papers, in particular banknotes, comprising the step of sealing the surface of the security papers by applying a protective pattern on the surface of the security paper, which sealing comprising printing the security papers by intaglio printing using an intaglio printing plate with engraved areas such that at least 80% of the whole surface of each security paper is covered with embossed intaglio patterns produced by engraved areas of the intaglio printing plate which are inked or with a combination of embossed intaglio patterns and flat intaglio patterns, which flat intaglio patterns are produced by unengraved areas of the intaglio printing plate which are inked after wiping of the intaglio printing plate, at least a part of the embossed intaglio patterns and/or flat intaglio patterns being printed with a transparent or semi-transparent intaglio ink. The transparent or semi-transparent intaglio ink is applied in engraved areas and/or unengraved areas of the intaglio printing plate so as to seal substantially the whole surface of the security papers with a protective pattern composed of intaglio patterns. Also described are intaglio printing presses for implementing the said process and the resulting security papers. | 09-23-2010 |
| 20110192298 | DRIVE CONTROL METHOD AND DRIVE CONTROL APPARATUS FOR PRINTING PRESS - According to a drive control method and apparatus, an offset printing section and an intaglio printing section are connected together by a gear train. Separately from an offset printing section prime motor for driving an entire sheet-fed printing press, an intaglio printing section auxiliary motor is provided in the intaglio printing section where load is heaviest and load variations are great. By so doing, the entire sheet-fed printing press is driven by the offset printing section prime motor and the intaglio printing section auxiliary motor. Moreover, the electric current value (driving torque value) of the intaglio printing section auxiliary motor is controlled in accordance with an electric current value (torque value) for driving the offset printing section prime motor, the torque distribution rate of the intaglio printing section auxiliary motor, and the rated electric current value of the intaglio printing section auxiliary motor. | 08-11-2011 |
| 20090183644 | Ink Wiping System For A Printing Machine - The system comprises a wiping tank ( | 07-23-2009 |
| 101169000 | Scraper | 8 |
| 20110162543 | INKING METHOD AND APPARATUS THEREOF - An ink return blade | 07-07-2011 |
| 20090266249 | Intaglio Plate Wiping System - An intaglio plate wiping system includes a wiping member which forms a nip with the intaglio plate in use and onto which excess intaglio ink is transferred during relative movement between the wiping member and the intaglio plate. A heated doctor blade unit is located downstream of the nip and cooperates with the wiping member to remove intaglio ink from the wiping member. A heated ink collecting container is provided into which ink removed from the wiping member passes. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090139415 | INTAGLIO PRINTING PRESS - An intaglio printing press includes an intaglio cylinder supported rotatably, an inking device for supplying ink to the intaglio cylinder, a wiping device for removing a surplus ink of the ink supplied to the intaglio cylinder, and a prewiping device, provided upstream of the wiping device and downstream of the inking device in the direction of rotation of the intaglio cylinder, for removing the ink before being removed by the wiping device. The prewiping device has a belt conveyor device for discharging the removed ink to the outside of the printing press. | 06-04-2009 |
| 20090101028 | DOCTOR BLADE ASSEMBLY - Doctor blade assembly for rotogravure printing units, having a support structure for a doctor blade, a holding device of the support structure and a moving device for moving the holding device. The holding device includes a mounting suitable to fix either a chambered doctor blade or a non-chambered doctor blade to the moving device. | 04-23-2009 |
| 20080245246 | Apparatus For Coating a Cylinder, in Particular a Wiping Cylinder of an Intaglio Printing Press - There is described an apparatus ( | 10-09-2008 |
| 20080223235 | INK LINER FRAME FOR PAD PRINTING AND DECORATING - A pad printing system includes a doctor blade and an ink liner frame removably attached to the doctor blade. The ink liner frame is removably attachable to an ink liner. A pad printing system includes a doctor blade, an ink liner, and an ink liner frame removably attached to the doctor blade, wherein the ink liner frame is removably attachable to the ink liner. | 09-18-2008 |
| 20090308270 | DOCTOR BLADE - A doctor blade, in particular for metering of inks and coatings from an engraved surface, has a flat oblong base body and a blade region with a working edge being formed at one of the longitudinal sides of the base body. The blade region is at least partially made of a plastics material, whereas the working edge is formed of the plastics material. The base body is made from a reinforced plastics material. The opposing main outer surfaces of the base body are constituted by plastic layers made from a first material, where at least one inner layer made from a second material having a higher rigidity than the first material is provided in between the plastic layers. | 12-17-2009 |
| 20100089263 | DOCTOR BLADE - Provided is a doctor blade for use with a gravure printing roll, which hardly causes fogging even when it is used for the gravure printing using aqueous ink at the same printing speed as that of the gravure printing using oil based ink, can upgrade the gravure printing using the aqueous ink to a practical level, and can have an extended service life. The doctor blade includes a doctor blade body having a distal end with a knife edge portion, for filling gravure cells with ink and scraping off surplus ink with the knife edge portion being brought into contact with a gravure printing roll through a relative movement of the doctor blade to the gravure printing roll, in which at least the knife edge portion of the doctor blade body is coated with a silicon dioxide film, and the silicon dioxide film is formed by using a perhydropolysilazane solution. | 04-15-2010 |
| 101170000 | Processes | 21 |
| 20090301325 | Raised ultraviolet printing process - A method and a system of printing and an article printed thereby, where the method includes providing a substrate, applying a first stampable ultraviolet coating to the substrate, drying the first stampable ultraviolet coating, applying a second stampable ultraviolet coating to the substrate on top of the first stampable ultraviolet coating, drying the second stampable ultraviolet coating, and forming raised, light refractive portions of the first and second stampable ultraviolet coatings on the substrate. | 12-10-2009 |
| 20090038490 | METHOD FOR PRINTING SECURITY DOCUMENTS, AND SECURITY DOCUMENT - The invention concerns a method for printing security documents ( | 02-12-2009 |
| 20100242757 | METHOD OF GRAVURE PRINTING WITH LIQUID RADIATION CURABLE INKS - The invention relates to a gravure printing ink and a method of multi-color gravure printing on flexible substrates with liquid radiation curable inks. Individual colors are transferred via direct contact between engraved gravure cylinder and a substrate. Each color is dried such that the sequentially printed ink layers transfer through the press without distortion of the printed image during multiple web turns around turn bars. Finally the printed substrate is cured by exposing an electron beam unit. The gravure printing ink comprises an admixture of a) a water dispersible pigment; b) a water dispersible, ethylenically unsaturated monomer, ethylenically unsaturated oligomer or ethylenically unsaturated polymer which is polymerizable or crosslinkable by the application of sufficient electron beam radiation; c) a defoaming agent; d) sufficient water to form a dispersion with components a), b) and c), which dispersion has a viscosity of from about 25 cps to about 200 cps. | 09-30-2010 |
| 20080250954 | Data Carrier and Method for the Production Thereof - The invention relates to a data carrier, especially a value document or security paper, having a substrate ( | 10-16-2008 |
| 20100162909 | Vanadium-Drier Intaglio Ink - An oxidatively curing intaglio printing ink is disclosed, comprising an oxidatively curable polymer, an anionic macromolecular surfactant, a wax component, and a salt of vanadium, preferably of the vanadyl (VO | 07-01-2010 |
| 20110107928 | DIGITAL PRINTING PLATE AND SYSTEM WITH ELECTROSTATICALLY LATCHED DEFORMABLE MEMBRANES - A printing surface includes a substrate having latching electrodes on a first surface, a spacer layer on the first surface of the substrate, the spacer layer patterned to form wells such that the latching electrodes reside in the wells, a deformable membrane, the membrane having conductive regions, on the spacer layer to enclose the wells, each enclosed well and its associated region of the membrane forming a pixel membrane, and actuation circuitry to actuate the electrodes to cause selected ones of the pixel membranes to remain in a deflected state when the pixel membranes receive an impulse to return to an undeflected state. | 05-12-2011 |
| 20110209635 | SLEEVES AND SLEEVE SEGMENTS FOR FLEXOGRAPHY - A sleeve segment for flexography has the shape of a sleeve with a first circular side containing a female registration element and a second circular side containing a male registration element. Also a method for manufacturing a flexographic sleeve segment, segmented sleeves and methods of flexographic printing. | 09-01-2011 |
| 20090211473 | Printing press and method for register correction - The invention relates to a drive device for a printing press ( | 08-27-2009 |
| 20090126586 | Method and Device for Gravure Printing Using an Erasable and Re-Usable Printing Form - The invention relates to a method and a device for gravure painting using an enable and re-usable printing form. The starting point of said method is a gravure printing form comprising a basic grid that is designed for the maximum quality of ink that is transferred, said grid being uniformly filled in a filling process, a pattern being created by thermal ablation and the gravure printing form being erased after the printing process. The aim of the invention is to provide a method and device with which the complete removal of the filler material can be performed in a justifiable time in a reliable manner, even outside the printing press. To achieve this, the filler material and the residual ink is removed by a separate laser beam from that of the image-point transfer device. | 05-21-2009 |
| 20090126587 | Method and Device for Creating a Pattern on an Erasable and Re-Usable Gravure Printing Form - The aim of the invention is to further improve the ablation precision in terms of structuring the depressions of the basic grid of a gravure printing form and the printing behaviour of the depressions of a basic grid of an erasable and re-usable gravure printing form, by increasing the uniformity of the base of said depressions. To achieve this, the filler material that fills the erasable, re-usable printing gravure form is removed using laser beams, whose intensity profile over the cross-section of the laser beam corresponds to a pillbox profile. | 05-21-2009 |
| 20080314267 | Printing quality control method and apparatus for printing press - A printing quality control method and apparatus are disclosed for an intaglio printing press including an intaglio cylinder which is supplied with ink, an impression cylinder opposing the intaglio cylinder, and holding a sheet which is supplied with the ink from the intaglio cylinder, and a motor for adjusting a printing pressure between the intaglio cylinder and the impression cylinder. The emboss amount of a printing product of printing by the intaglio printing press is measured by a face side distance measuring instrument and a reverse side distance measuring instrument, and the motor for adjusting the printing pressure between the intaglio cylinder and the impression cylinder is drivingly controlled based on the emboss amount measured. | 12-25-2008 |
| 20090308271 | Process and device for inking an engraved printing plate from an ink-tank - The invention concerns a process for inking an engraved printing plate from an ink tank and for scraping off the ink in dab printing, characterised in that a doctor blade ( | 12-17-2009 |
| 20110185925 | Digital Gravure Printing with a Pixilated Photoconductor - A printing sub-system including same including a pixilated photoconductive member (such as a photobelt) is disclosed. Electrically isolated cells hold surface application material above the photoconductor. The surface application material is first charged. Charge on the surface application material in an individual cell may then be discharged by exposure of a region of the photoconductor proximate that cell to light from an optical addressing system. The surface application material is brought into proximity of an image receiving member such as paper, which is either charged or proximate a charge source. Charged surface application material in a cell may then be electrostatically transferred from the cell onto the image receiving member, while discharged surface application material remains in the cell. The subsystem may form a part of a complete printing system using many existing components. Among other advantages, viscous liquid surface application material may thereby be printed. | 08-04-2011 |
| 20110315030 | PHOTOGRAVURE PROCESS FOR IDENTIFICATION CODE - A photogravure process for an identification code includes Step A. making a press plate by using a seamless steel tube or a copper tube as a press plate substrate, and engraving an information of the identification code onto the press plate substrate by means of electric engraving or laser engraving; and Step B. printing the information of the identification code by using a monochrome gravure printing press or a multi-color gravure printing press to print the information of the identification code on a film substrate, so as to form the ink information layer. By using the photogravure process, the identification code printed has the benefits of solid and rich colors, clear graphics and letters, appropriate contrast, and realistic images. In addition, the disclosed photogravure process allows high printing efficiency with a printing speed up to 100 m/min while the cost required is low. | 12-29-2011 |
| 20120111209 | ARRANGEMENT AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING A PAPER WEB, IN PARTICULAR A CIGARETTE PAPER WEB - The invention relates to an arrangement for processing a paper web having a low surface area density not exceeding 70 g/m | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120152135 | GRAVURE PRINTING OF TRANSPARENT CONDUCTIVE FILMS CONTAINING NETWORKS OF METAL NANOPARTICLES - Methods and compositions are disclosed and claimed for gravure printing of transparent conductive films comprising metal nanowires. Such films exhibiting low resistivity and superior coating uniformity may be used in electronic or optical articles. | 06-21-2012 |
| 20120118182 | METHOD OF MAKING A RELIEF IMAGE - A relief (or flexographic) printing precursor has first and second radiation-sensitive layers, or a plurality of radiation-sensitive layers. The first radiation-sensitive layer is sensitive to a first imaging radiation having a first λ | 05-17-2012 |
| 20120125211 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING CATALYST LAYERS FOR FUEL CELLS - The present invention relates to a method for producing continuous catalyst layers on substrate materials by gravure printing with the aid of catalyst-containing inks, a printing plate being used which has at least one print image with an interrupted line screen whose longitudinal lines are arranged at an angle α of from 10 to 80° relative to the printing direction. Preferably, the print images have dip volumes in the range from range from 100 to 300 ml/m | 05-24-2012 |
| 20120079952 | PROCESS FOR GRAVURE PRINTING WITH A WATER-BASED INK - The present invention consists of a process where a water-based ink is printed using a gravure press with a specially engraved cylinder. | 04-05-2012 |
| 20100229743 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING CERAMIC ELECTRONIC COMPONENTS AT HIGH SPEED THROUGH PRINTING PROCESS - Disclosed is a method of manufacturing electronic components, particularly, a method of manufacturing electronic components through a printing process, including simultaneously printing ceramic dielectric regions and conductive regions on a support film. The manufacturing method repeats gravure printing of a ceramic dielectric paste and a conductive paste on a support film, without the use of a ceramic green sheet, thus rapidly fabricating a mother laminate for manufacturing desired electronic components. | 09-16-2010 |
| 20130019767 | EMBEDDING DATA IN A HALFTONE IMAGE - A method of encoding data in printed halftone image features on a receiver includes providing a relief printing member; encoding first embedded data in the relief printing member by modifying surfaces of a first plurality of halftone dots; and printing the halftone image on the receiver. | 01-24-2013 |
