Abstract: The invention relates to a method for ink control in a printing press, wherein, during an ongoing printing process, an opaque ink (02) is printed onto a print substrate (01) in a first printing unit (06), and subsequently a transparent printing ink (03) is printed onto the opaque ink (02) in a second printing unit (07), at least one actual value of the optical density of the opaque ink (02) being ascertained by a first detection device (08) for this opaque ink (02) printed onto the print substrate (01), a film thickness of this opaque ink (02) to be applied onto the print substrate (01) being set at the relevant printing unit (06) by a control unit (11) detecting the at least one actual value of the optical density of this opaque ink (02), as a function of a previously ascertained value of the optical density of the surface of the unprinted print substrate (01), in such a way that the at least one actual value of the optical density of this opaque ink (02) detected by the first detection device (08) correspon

Abstract: There is provided a method for making a lithographic printing plate from an original containing continuous tones comprising the steps of:

Abstract: A method of printing an image on a foil-covered surface wherein a portion of the surface is coated with opaque white ink provides a unique high-quality graphic wherein the designs printed on bare foil are more prominently presented than, and are sharply differentiated from, designs printed on the surfaces coated with opaque white ink.

Abstract: An improved method of making lithographic reproductions is disclosed. The method involves several improvements over prior processes, including (a) the combination of random plates and a waterless, dry press for halftone, duotone, tritone and four color separation halftone printing, and (b) the use, in duotone, tritone and four color separation halftone printing of random plates exclusively for all the plates involved in the multi-step printing process.

Abstract: A ribbon for non-impact printing comprising an electrically conductive substrate and a transfer layer which comprises a polymerized fatty acid polyamide.

Abstract: A table has a mechanically driven draw bar squeegee mounted thereon to spread ink and other substances in a uniform manner. There is an interchangeable plurality of such squeegees which may be sequentially placed in said table to enable successive layers of different types of materials to be spread, in sequence, over the surface of a paper. This succession of materials includes an isolation layer between successive colors of ink, whereby a mistake on work in progress does not necessarily lead to a final destruction of all previously done work. A feature of the invention is that the pigmented surface of dried ink is not seen through the tint of other material, such as photoresist, for example. Also, a releasable layer may be provided among the successive layers so that a hand proof copy may be transferred, as a decalcomania.

Abstract: Latent, sensitizing inks for application to selected areas of substrates by conventional printing methods. The inks comprise a unique vehicle component which is a non-polymeric, oleophilic, organic Arrhenius acid anion having a cationic counter-ion and, in combination with said vehicle component, a thinner and a particulate filler. The latent inks also include at least one color-generating component. A preferred ink comprises as an additional component a polymeric, hydrocarbon, thermoplastic terpene resin which enhances imaging characteristics and allows the use of reduced filler loadings in the composition.

Abstract: A thermally sensitive record medium is disclosed. Data is generated on the record medium in response to an application of heat. The record medium is capable of generating data images in more than one color by exposing the medium to more than one temperature level in areas to be imaged. Overlap or interference between two colors is avoided by utilizing at least one color-forming system which requires a thermal decomposition of one system component before it can be reacted to yield color.The record material is made by coating individual layers, each containing a color-forming system or preferably by coating a single layer including all of the color-forming systems.

Abstract: Latent, sensitizing inks for application to selected areas of substrates by conventional printing methods. The inks comprise a unique vehicle component which is a nonpolymeric, oleophilic, organic Arrhenius acid anion having a cationic counter-ion and, in combination with said vehicle component, a thinner and an oil-receptive, particulate filler. The latent inks also include at least one color-generating component. The ratio of filler to the vehicle component is about 0.5:1 to about 6:1.

Abstract: A system for the preparing of copy containing concealed images and a marking material for the development of same in which the components comprise a receiving material in the form of starch or polyvinyl alcohol, an iodide which is oxidizable to iodine, and an oxidizing agent for oxidizing the iodide in which the oxidizing agent is contained in the imaging material to produce the concealed image, the iodine is contained in the marking material for the development of the image and the starch or polyvinyl alcohol are contained in the copy sheet, the printing material or the marking material whereby, when the marking material is applied to the concealed image, the oxidizing agent oxidizes the iodide to release iodine for producing an intense color with the starch or polyvinyl alcohol and in which the printing process is adapted to conventional printing systems.

Abstract: A color developing coating and coated paper are provided in which a paper sheet is coated with a mixture of dispersing agent, adhesive and a reactive pigment made up of essentially from the group bentonite and montmorillonite admixed with kaolinite, a polyvalent cation and a ligand.

Abstract: A process is described for performing color separations from a light-image of a colored original and for separately printing corresponding color separation images in registry onto a print sheet to provide a full color reproduction. The printing step is accomplished by thermographic dry image forming techniques.

Abstract: A copy sheet that is capable of being printed by a reaction which requires the presence of three components. One of these components is carried by a printing master and another of these components is supplied to the copy sheet immediately prior to the printing operation. The third component is carried by the copy sheet in the form of a layer provided on one side of a carrier sheet forming part of the copy sheet. The printing master is placed on a rotating drum and the layer on the carrier sheet is moistened to supply the still missing component and is thereafter urged into contact with the printing master by means of a counter-pressure roller. If, in making a series of prints on a number of copy sheets, one copy sheet in the sequence should fail to be conveyed to the printing location, the rotating printing master will contact the counter-pressure roller and apply thereto the component carried thereby.

Abstract: A process for hectographic duplicating, and hectographic copy paper therefor, are disclosed. The hectographic copy paper is formed by applying a coating of a film-forming vehicle and a colourless dyestuff precursor which is sodium p-carboxy phenyl leucauramine, sodium p-sulphophenyl leucauramine of Michler's hydrol methyl ether. The sheets are used to type or otherwise form an imaged hectographic master sheet, which is then contacted with hectographic copy sheets moistened with a spirit duplicating fluid, with the dyestuff precursors converted into dyestuffs on the hectographic copy sheets.