Abstract:
The present invention relates to a method and a jig for forming a pattern, the method and the jig being capable of realizing various and unique pattern designs due to magnetic particles included in the magnetic ink being distributed in various densities according to intensity of the magnetic force. Disclosed is a method and a jig for forming a pattern by using magnetic ink and magnetic force, the method including: preparing a jig which generating magnetic force, applying magnetic ink on a surface of a substrate to form a print layer, disposing the substrate configured with the print layer above the jig, forming a magnetic pattern on the print layer by applying magnetic force generated from the jig, and drying the print layer.
Abstract:
In order to create preconditions, in a web-fed rotary press, for good format variability of the printed products and economic utilization of the printing material, at least two printed pages of different heights are arranged in the circumferential direction on a form cylinder.
Abstract:
A printing press which comprises a number of different printing stations, each of which has an ink applicator for depositing ink, an adjacent first rotatable cylinder for receiving the ink in a nip therebetween, and at least a rotatable second cylinder over which passes the substrate to be printed upon in a nip between the substrate and a rotatable cylinder, which can be the first or another cylinder. At least one of the printing stations has a multi-layered flexible body attached to the periphery of the first cylinder. The multi-layered flexible body has an outermost layer which receives the ink, and which is secured to an innermost layer of a different material. The outermost layer is cut to provide spaced cut-out areas which leave outermost layer areas which project beyond the cut-out areas to form ink-applying areas to cover substrate areas to be printed upon, and which extend over areas much greater in size than any substrate areas which are to receive letters and/or numbers. At least another one of the printing stations has a rotatable ink-receiving first cylinder for receiving ink in a nip with the associated ink applicator, and which cylinder has a periphery for printing letters and/or numbers each of a size which is a fraction of the size of the areas which receive ink from the projecting outermost layer of the multi-layered flexible body.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a printing form for a rotary relief-printing method, in which the printing dots transferring the printing ink constitute a half-tone screen and are superimposed by a relief structure constituted by indentations. Such printing forms are used, for example in flexographic printing methods for printing glass plates, for example display screens having a luminescent material coating. In the manufacture of these screens, the printing ink must be applied homogeneously and the ink dots appearing in the printed image must have a uniform border area. According to the invention, the printing form is to this end implemented in such a way that the relief structures are arranged homogeneously relative to the printing dots and, if the printing dots are periodically spread across the printing form, these relief structures are superimposed on the printing dots preferably with the same period. Moreover, the relief structures are arranged in such a way that the indentations do not intersect the border area of a printing dot.
Abstract:
A printing process is provided whereby a resilient image having a relief of from about 4 to 50 microns is formed on the surface of a hard, non-resilient substrate to form a printing member. The printing member is then contacted with a gravure donor member having disposed therein a liquid developer wherein said developer resides within cells from about 4 to 50 microns below the surface of the contact plane at a depth such that the developer contacts the image but not the non-imaged areas of the master so that said contacting selectively transfers said developer to said resilient image but not to the non-imaged areas, and the printing member is then contacted with a receiver sheet to transfer the developed image.
Abstract:
There is described a combined printing press (10) for the production of security documents, in particular banknotes, comprising a screen printing group (3) and a numbering group (4) adapted to process printed substrates in the form of individual sheets or successive portions of a continuous web. The screen printing group (3) is located upstream of the numbering group (4) and comprises at least one screen printing unit (32-33) designed to print a pattern of optically-variable ink, which optically-variable ink contains flakes that can be oriented by means of a magnetic field. The screen printing group further comprises a magnetic unit (36) located downstream of the screen printing unit (32-33), which magnetic unit (36) is designed to magnetically induce an optically-variable effect in the pattern of optically-variable ink applied by the screen printing unit (32-33) prior to drying/curing of the optically-variable ink. The screen printing group (3) further comprises at least one drying/curing unit (37) designed to dry/cure the pattern of optically-variable ink in which the optically-variable effect has been induced by the magnetic unit (36), prior to transfer of the printed substrates to the numbering group (4).
Abstract:
There is described a combined printing press (10) for the production of security documents, in particular banknotes, comprising a screen printing group (3) and a numbering group (4) adapted to process printed substrates in the form of individual sheets or successive portions of a continuous web. The screen printing group (3) is located upstream of the numbering group (4) and comprises at least one screen printing unit (32-33) designed to print a pattern of optically-variable ink, which optically-variable ink contains flakes that can be oriented by means of a magnetic field. The screen printing group further comprises a magnetic unit (36) located downstream of the screen printing unit (32-33), which magnetic unit (36) is designed to magnetically induce an optically-variable effect in the pattern of optically-variable ink applied by the screen printing unit (32-33) prior to drying/curing of the optically-variable ink. The screen printing group (3) further comprises at least one drying/curing unit (37) designed to dry/cure the pattern of optically-variable ink in which the optically-variable effect has been induced by the magnetic unit (36), prior to transfer of the printed substrates to the numbering group (4).
Abstract:
A process of manufacturing a stretch composite is disclosed. The process comprises providing a polyolefin based substrate, providing a letterpress adhesive application system comprising a pattern roll and an applicator roll, and depositing a molten, non-adhesive, elastomeric composition onto the applicator roll. The process further comprises transferring only a portion of the elastomeric composition that is on the applicator roll, from the applicator roll to the pattern roll, by contacting the pattern roll with the elastomeric composition that is on the applicator roll, and transferring substantially all of the elastomeric composition from the pattern roll to the substrate, by contacting the substrate with the elastomeric composition that is on the pattern roll, without damaging the substrate.
Abstract:
The letterpress printing machine includes an impression cylinder (8), at least one inking device (11, 12, 13) with an inking train comprising inking rollers (25, 26, 28) and at least one letterpress form cylinder (14, 15, 16) inked by said at least one inking device (11, 12, 13). The at least one letterpress form cylinder (14, 15, 16) is driven by first drive means (30), whereas the at least one inking device (11, 12, 13) is driven by second drive means (31, 32, 33), the second drive means (31, 32, 33) being mechanically independent from the first drive means (30). A control unit is coupled to the second drive means (31, 32, 33) to adjust a circumferential speed of the inking rollers (25, 26, 28) with respect to a circumferential speed of the letterpress form cylinder (14, 15, 16) so as to adjust deposition of ink by the inking device (11, 12, 13) on the letterpress form cylinder (14, 15, 16). At least one of letterpress form (14, 15, 16) cylinder is preferably a numbering cylinder for numbering printed sheets or webs.