Abstract: A variable cut-off offset press system and method of operation which utilizes a continuous image transfer belt is provided. The offset printing system comprises at least two plate cylinders adapted to have thereon respective printing sleeves. Each of the printing sleeves is adapted to receive colored ink from a respective ink source. An optional coating source may be provided to fully or partially coat the image transfer belt before inking. The system further comprises at least a impression cylinder, wherein the image transfer belt is positioned to contact each of the printing sleeves at respective nips formed between respective ones of the plate cylinders and the at least one impression cylinder. An image belt cleaning station adapted to remove residual ink or coating from the surface of the image transfer belt after image transfer of a multicolored image from the image transfer belt to a substrate is also provided.

Abstract: A printing apparatus has a take-out shaft and a rolling-up shaft to supply an intermediate transfer ribbon provided with a transfer layer having a first area in a prescribed pattern and a blank and transparent second area, a printer portion to print prescribed data on the transfer layer of the supplied intermediate transfer ribbon, and a transfer portion to transferr the printed prescribed data on an image receiving medium (a passbook) 1 jointly with the transfer layer. The printer portion and the transfer portion are controlled independently in a first mode to cover the entire image receiving medium and in a second mode to cover the image receiving medium by the first area and the second areas.

Abstract: There are provided a method of forming an image on a card and an apparatus therefor, which are capable of properly carrying out printing of an image on a card and protection of the printed image in a simplified manner without changing the size of the card. A card is used which has an ink-fixing layer laminated on a surface of a substrate layer and an ink image-receiving layer peelably laminated on a surface of the ink-fixing layer. An image is printed on the card, while feeding the card, by an ink jet printing method using a sublimable dye ink. The card printed with the image is conveyed to a heating source, and subjected to heat treatment by the heating source to cause diffusion of the sublimable dye ink held in the ink image-receiving layer in the ink-fixing layer, and color development to form an image. The ink image-receiving layer is peeled off the card after the heat treatment.

Abstract: Resins and waxes made by reacting selected nucleophiles, including alcohols and/or amines, with an isocyanate are disclosed. The order of addition of the isocyanate and the different nucleophiles can tailor the distribution of di-urethane, mixed urethane/urea, and/or di-urea molecules in the final resin product. The isocyanate-derived resin and wax materials are useful as ingredients as phase change ink carrier compositions used to make phase change ink jet inks.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method for operating a sheet-fed offset press so as to reduce the occurrence of spoilage caused by nonuniform printing. In this method, the timing of start of oscillating motion of oscillating rollers is regulated. Also, the present invention provides an oscillation mechanism for a sheet-fed offset press, in which less failure and wear occur, and a smaller force is required to accomplish a changeover from transmission to stoppage of oscillation and vice versa.

Abstract: A security document or device having a substrate (2), a smooth highly reflective layer (1) applied to the substrate (2) and having a reflectivity of at least 60 gloss units, a raised printed image (3) of lines or dots applied to said reflective layer (1) by a printing process and having a height of about 10 to 100 &mgr;m, and typically about 30 &mgr;m, and a similar spacing being adjacent lines or dots, the hue chroma value of the ink used to print the image being between 30 and about 50 chroma units tending towards a saturation value of 60 chroma units, the lightness of the ink being at least 50 L degrees (lightness units), and typically between 70 and 100 L degrees.

Abstract: A method of feeding dampening water includes a density measuring step for measuring densities of first and second detecting patches 101 and 102 printed adjacent each other on printed matter 100 and presenting a difference in density variations after printing with varied feed rates of damping water and ink, a dampening water feeding step for controlling the feed rate of dampening water based on the densities of the first and second detecting patches 101 and 102 measured in the density measuring step, and an ink feeding step for controlling the feed rate of ink based on the densities of the first and second detecting patches measured in the density measuring step, and the feed rate of dampening water.

Abstract: An apparatus for, and a method of, transferring an image to a substrate. At least one printed, flexible membrane is located adjacent at least one forming fixture having a complementary shape to the substrate surface. The membrane is urged into image transferring contact with the substrate.

Abstract: A tire, for example, is nipped by a pair of bead portion support members and filled with an internal pressure. Logo marks printed on a transfer film are positioned in front of the tire at a transfer position at which the logo marks are to be transferred or printed to the tire. The transfer film is pressed by thermal plates onto the side portions of the tire so that the logo marks are transferred onto the side portions thereof. In short, the present invention provides a printing device and a printing method capable of effectively printing clear indications on the side portions of a toroidal-shaped body such as a tire.

Abstract: A system and method for applying a digital image to a metal container. The method includes retrieving a digital image using a computer, adjusting the digital image according to a desired location on a metal container, printing the digital image onto heat transfer paper using dye sublimation ink, and pressing the printed image onto the desired surface of the container.

Abstract: Novel printing surfaces for off-set printing blankets are provided having a resilience of less than about 40% and an average surface roughness of less than about 0.5 microns. Such low-resilience printing surfaces have been found to transfer up to greater than 90% of the ink applied thereto and can be used to transfer ink on a wide variety of substrates.

Abstract: A method for imaging a product with a pattern commences by forming a film of a wet or tacking marking material on a cliché. A negative of the pattern is ablatively imaged into the film on the cliché. The negative image then is pressure transferred from the cliché onto a marking pad. Finally, the negative image is pressure transferred from the marking pad onto the product. Preferably, the cliché where the film is formed contains recesses. The apparatus, which images the product, has a moveable cliché having a recessed pocket. An ink reservoir transfers ink into the recessed pocket. A laser imaging system images a pattern into ink contained in the recessed pocket. A stamp pad is moveable from a home position to contact the imaged pattern for pressure transferring the pattern onto the stamp pad, and moveable to a printing station to pressure transfer the pattern onto a product.

Abstract: A golf club head with a polymer insert having indicia printed directly on its surface is disclosed herein. The polymer insert is disposed in a recess of the club head, and is preferably composed of a thermosetting material. Preferably, an UV curable ink is utilized for the indicia. The UV ink is printed on the external surface of the insert through a transfer pad printing process, and then cured with UV energy. Preferably, the golf club head is a putter, and the insert is composed of a thermosetting polyurethane. The insert is preferably white, and the indicia is preferably multi-colored.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method for image formation, that can yield thermally transferred images which are excellent in various fastness properties even under severe service conditions, and an intermediate transfer recording medium for use in the method for image formation. The method for image formation comprises the steps of: providing an intermediate transfer recording medium comprising a substrate film and a transfer portion provided separably on the substrate film; forming an image on the intermediate transfer recording medium in its transfer portion; transferring the transfer portion onto an object; and, thereafter, again transferring the intermediate transfer recording medium in its next transfer portion once or more onto the object with the image formed thereon. In this case, in the intermediate transfer recording medium, a hologram image is set every at least second image plane, and an image can be formed on the transfer portion having the hologram image.

Abstract: A method of varying the ink density of the full tone in printing within a rotary printing machine with an ink application system which can provide a constant quantity of ink which, in spite of constant ink supply from the inking unit, permits control of the full-tone density or adaptation of the raster tonal values in the print. The method includes setting the binary image on a printing plate. A basic raster of raster points, which determines the area coverage of the binary image, is produced on the printing plate for the variable-area image information. The basic raster is then superimposed on a fine microraster in such way that the area coverage of the basic raster is reduced by a percentage which can be set between 0% and 100%.

Abstract: Method for pad-printing a substantially cylindrical chip having opposing faces and a side, the method comprising forming a first decoration, including a section for at least a portion of the side of the chip, radially deforming the section to form a second decoration, providing an ink plate with the second decoration, moving a pad coaxially into contact with the ink plate such that the second decoration transfers to the pad and moving the pad coaxially into contact with the chip such that the second decoration transfers to the side to print the section on the side, wherein a contraction coefficient of the radially deforming is determined, for a given straight-sided chip and a given pad, by marking a chip model using a positioning ink plate centered on an axis of the chip, the positioning ink plate bearing a pattern comprising closely-spaced concentric circles.

Abstract: An offset printing method comprises the steps of: a process for suspending a sheet-shaped or belt-shaped blanket by supporting both ends thereof at the leading and trailing ends thereof in the printing direction; and a process for performing ink reception from a plate to the blanket and also transferring ink from the blanket to a work, by pressing the blanket by a pressuring jig from an upwards direction down onto a plate or work situated below and sweeping in the printing direction. An offset printing apparatus is configured so as to carry out this method.

Abstract: A multi-color offset printing apparatus includes first and second plate cylinders 11 and 12 each having a plate mounted peripherally thereof, the plate defining two image areas, first and second blanket cylinders 13 and 14 equal in diameter to the first and second plate cylinders 11 and 12 and rotatable in contact with the first and second plate cylinders 11 and 12, respectively, and an impression cylinder 15 having a gripper 83 disposed peripherally thereof for holding a forward end of printing paper, the impression cylinder 15 being rotatable in contact with the first and second blanket cylinders 13 and 14. In this multi-color offset printing apparatus, the impression cylinder 15 is rotated at least four times, with the printing paper held in place by the gripper 83, before starting a printing operation. This step creates a state of ink saturation on the first and second blanket cylinders 13 and 14 prior to the printing operation.

Abstract: A process for producing a multicolored print by employing a color scanner that is capable of being profiled and an electronic image processor. Color data pertaining to color fields are taken as the basis for determining an algorithm for the printable color range and the separation, the color data being generated by employing ceramic colors of a multicolor set that are compatible with one another. With a view to producing four-color prints and also, in particular, seven-color prints that are truer to the original, four-color and seven-color sets as claimed are employed such as were taken as the basis for the color fields for determination of the algorithm. By means of seven-color printing, the color space is extended.

Abstract: A drive control mechanism for a scanning head which travels along a scan surface and carries out image reading or image writing. The drive control mechanism includes a driving starting position changing device which changes a driving starting position of the scanning head either outside an image reading range or outside an image writing range, under a predetermined condition. Accordingly, phases of vibration periods are shifted and unevenness in density is less visible.

Abstract: In a conventional sheet-fed printing machine having a central drive, the dynamic positional deviation with respect to a setpoint value continually increases from printing unit to printing unit due to the elasticity (a vibratory multi-mass system). Thus, the precision is dependent on the number of printing units. A mechanical interconnection of the individual cylinders of the sheet-fed printing machine is partially removed and replaced by individual drives is, therefore, provided. In the multiple motor open-loop drive control described, the fault does not increase because in each printing unit, the torque is supplied separately, and all drives are closed-loop controlled using the same reference variable.

Abstract: Images are impressed on the surface of plastic tiles by a sublimation process. A tile having top and bottom surfaces is placed in a heating press having top and bottom platens. A transfer medium with a printed image thereon is placed in contact with the top surface of the tile. The tile is heated to a temperature sufficient to sublimate the dye and transfer the image onto the top surface of the tile. Heat is applied from both the top and bottom of the tile to prevent warping of the tile. The heat applied to the bottom of the tile is preferably slightly greater than the heat applied to the top of the tile.

Abstract: A paint injector for digital printing in which paint is deposited in metered amounts on a print medium comprises a wheel rotatable by a shaft of a motor, an idler disposed in a paint reservoir, and an endless cable disposed around the wheel and the idler. The motor is preferably computer controlled such that the rotation of the wheel and thus movement of the cable is selectively controlled. As the wheel is rotated, paint contained within the paint reservoir coats the cable and is thus drawn by the cable in front of an air stream. The air stream pulls the paint from the cable and carries it toward the print medium. By employing a plurality of such paint injectors into a single print head, each containing a different color of paint, and secured to a computer controlled, movable carriage positioned over the print medium, a digital image can be painted by the print head on the print medium.

Abstract: While a transfer sheet 3 including a water-soluble base sheet on which a print layer is provided is floated on water, an adhesion is applied after the base sheet is dissolved, thereby to form a semi-fluidal print layer. An object is pressed against the print layer to achieve printing. In this technique, the present printing method and apparatus shorten the warm-up time required for dissolving the base sheet of the transfer sheet 3 to improve the working efficiency, and the transfer sheet 3 is previously cut at a predetermined length and is then floated on the water surface 5, so that wasteful consumption of the transfer sheet is reduced. The bottom of a water tank 11 is formed to be shallow in the left side than in the right side, so that the amount of water contained in the water tank 11 is reduced to shorten the warm-up time.

Abstract: An intermediate transfer recording medium is comprised by providing a transfer portion having a receptor layer on a substrate film. The transfer portion is printed with the image and thereafter transferred on a surface of a transfer-receiving material. In the first aspect of the intermediate transfer recording medium, the transfer portion is provided with plural hologram patterns 21 with a hologram mark 22 allocated to each the hologram pattern. According to the first aspect of the invention, since an image is formed on the receptor layer through positioning process using the hologram mark and then the transfer portion is transferred to the surface of the transfer-receiving material, no joint of a print plate appears in the hologram pattern and accuracy of transfer is remarkably excellent.

Abstract: A stamping device, simple in application and construction, is disclosed for transferring an image to an irregularly surfaced object. The stamping device includes a frame having an upper region capable of receiving a surface of an object to be printed and a transfer medium mounted across the upper region of the frame for receiving an image from a stamp and transferring the image to the surface of the object. The design of the stamping device enables users to transfer an image from a stamp block to an irregularly surfaced object with increased precision and without complex procedures and machinery. Furthermore, the stamping device enjoys a simplistic and collapsible design, which promotes compact transport and storage of the device.

Abstract: A printing unit in a lithographic web fed rotary printing press has a plate cylinder and an associated blanket cylinder mechanically coupled via a gear train. A first drive motor drives both the plate cylinder and blanket cylinder. An impression cylinder is associated with the blanket cylinder, the impression cylinder being in rolling contact with the blanket cylinder and being driven by a second drive motor. The web passes through a nip formed between the impression cylinder and the blanket cylinder for printing. A clutch is provided for interrupting a drive connection between the first drive motor and the blanket cylinder, as is a throw-off mechanism for separating the plate cylinder from the blanket cylinder. With the printing unit, the blanket cylinder can remain in rolling contact with the impression cylinder and be friction-driven by the web after the drive connection has been interrupted.

Abstract: A method for marking a side of a straight-sided chip with a decoration by pad printing. The method comprises providing an ink plate with an image defined by radially deformed representation of the decoration of the straight side of the chip in a ring-shaped zone, moving a pad coaxially into contact with the ink plate such that the image transfers to the pad, and moving the pad coaxially into contact with the chip such that the image transfers to the side of the chip.

Abstract: An apparatus and method is provided for printing and imprinting duplicates of a credit card receipt using a roll of single-ply paper. The paper may be coated on a first side with a heat-sensitive image producing agent and is coated on a second side with a carbon-type image producing agent. To include transaction information printed on the credit card receipt as well as information written on the receipt by the customer (such as a signature and an indication of the amount of any gratuity), the transaction information is substantially duplicated in two separate fields each on a separate portion of the credit card receipt. At least part of the two separate portions are then aligned and presented to the customer for completion. The two separate portions can be aligned by separating the two separate portions from one another and stacking the two separate portions one upon the other.

Abstract: A method of transfer printing onto a receptor substrate (16), comprising at least partially covering a first transfer (13) with barrier means (15) located to come between the first transfer (13) and the receptor substrate (16) so that, where the barrier means (15) covers the first transfer (13), transfer material (6) is substantially prevented from being transferred from the first transfer (13) to the receptor substrate (16), and the barrier means (15) is sandwiched between the first transfer (13) and a second transfer (14).

Abstract: A printing apparatus comprising a plate cylinder; at least one ink transfer roller for transferring ink to the plate cylinder; and a smoother associated with at least one of the at least one ink transfer roller for smoothing the ink on the ink transfer roller. Also provided is a method of providing ink for a printing apparatus comprising the steps of providing ink to an ink transfer roller transferring the ink to a plate cylinder; and smoothing the ink on the ink transfer roller using a smoother.

Abstract: A marked golf ball is provided. The mark on the ball surface contains a holographic portion in a solid color portion of printing ink. The mark is printed on the ball surface by use of a transfer printing film. In a manufacturing process of the printing film, a desired shape is printed in ink on a cover layer, the ink portion is masked by a water-soluble layer, a thin metal layer is deposited all around, and then the water-soluble layer is washed off to remove the metal layer on the water-soluble layer and to leave the metal layer adjacent to the ink portion on the cover layer. The remaining portion of the metal layer turns to be the holographic portion due to a rough boundary between the cover layer. The mark has a novel appearance and makes the golf ball a quality, decorative, distinct and well discriminative value added product.

Abstract: A color image is printed onto a first substrate, which acts as an intermediate medium, using lithography, intaglio, gravure, relief printing or other printing process which uses plates. The image is subsequently transferred from the intermediate medium to a final substrate, which may be a textile of natural fabric, such as cotton.Bonding and/or crosslinking of the color images are provided by the reaction between compounds selected from each of two chemical groups. The first group comprises compounds with functional groups capable of reacting with active hydrogen, such as isocyanate or epoxy groups. The second group comprises compounds with functional groups containing active hydrogen, or compounds with functional groups containing active hydrogen after a conversion process. The functional groups of one or both reactive chemical groups are protected either by chemical blocking with blocking agents or by physical barrier such as encapsulating agents.

Abstract: For security printing of documents, in particular banknotes, by printing a sheet or web using intaglio technology, an ink image is applied to transfer rollers (6) using rotary screen printing technology, said ink image is transferred from the transfer rollers to one or more intaglio plates which are provided with engravings and are fixed in or on the shell of a plate cylinder, and the ink present in the engravings of the intaglio plates is transferred to a sheet or web pressed against the plate cylinder (1) by a counter pressure cylinder (8).

Abstract: A method of digital printing in which paint is deposited in metered amounts on a print medium includes providing a paint injector which advances a paint coated strand through the path of a fluid stream. The fluid stream removes the paint from the exterior of the strand and deposits the paint onto the surface of a print medium. The advancement of the strand is selectively controlled to effectively meter the paint applied to the print medium and the position of the paint injector is controlled relative to the print medium to form an image thereon. The paint injector is comprised of a wheel rotatable by a shaft of a motor, an idler at least partially disposed in paint contained in a reservoir, and a wire disposed at least partially around the wheel and the idler.

Abstract: In a printing method, an electrically encoded image to be transferred to a printing substrate during a printing process is provided in an electronic memory. A flexible carrier web is attached under tension to a cutting cylinder with an adjustable diameter. The cutting cylinder is adjusted to have a diameter which matches the diameter of a blanket or printing cylinder of a printing machine. The length of the cutting cylinder is at least as great as the length of the blanket or printing cylinder. The carrier web is cut automatically in accordance with the electrically encoded image after attachment of the carrier web to the adjusted cutting cylinder.

Abstract: While a transfer sheet 3 including a water-soluble base sheet on which a print layer is provided is floated on water, an adhesion is applied after the base sheet is dissolved, thereby to form a semi-fluidal print layer. An object is pressed against the print layer to achieve printing. In this technique, the present printing method and apparatus shorten the warm-up time required for dissolving the base sheet of the transfer sheet 3 to improve the working efficiency, and the transfer sheet 3 is previously cut at a predetermined length and is then floated on the water surface 5, so that wasteful consumption of the transfer sheet is reduced. The bottom of a water tank 11 is formed to be shallow in the left side than in the right side, so that the amount of water contained in the water tank 11 is reduced to shorten the warm-up time.

Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a dampening volume control apparatus capable of shortening a period of time for adjusting a desired value of characteristics. A switch SW1 is a switch for switching the apparatus either in an automatic control mode or a manual control mode. A dampening volume of the dampening solution being stored in a manual dampening volume storing means 21 is varied by adjusting a switch SW21 and/or a switch 22. Revolution speed of a motor 25 is controlled by a controller 23 in accordance with the dampening volume thus varied. The switch SW1 is turned to the automatic control mode when the operator judges that quality of printing done on the printed papers is qualified to the criteria. The revolution speed of the motor 25 is controlled so as to make the dampening volume on the plate surface coincide with the volume corresponding to the desired value during the automatic control condition.

Abstract: A method for monitoring the amount of moisture sprayed on a moving material web or a roller across their width, with the width being divided into individual measurement areas includes a measuring step, a storing step and further measuring steps. The measurement is made of local droplet flow of the sprayed liquid in the individual measurement areas, storing the measured values as set values, and again measuring the local droplet flow and comprising it to the set values. The device used includes a counting device and an evaluation unit. The counting device registers droplets of the liquid sprayed on the moving material web in a respective one of the individual measurement areas, and generates a signal per registered droplet which is supplied to the evaluation unit.

Abstract: In a method of applying a decorative design of dyestuffs suitable for sublimation on to a substrate (10), provision is made for placing a dye carrier (12) on the substrate (10) and transferring the dye to the substrate by infrared heating of the carrier (10). The carrier is heated to temperatures below 170.degree. C., depending on the plastics of the substrate, and the carrier is pressed by its entire surface area against the substrate by means of electrostatic charging and vacuum. The side of the substrate (10) to which the decorative design is applied is heated less than the opposite side of the substrate.

Abstract: A method for dry heat transfer printing a wall covering material utilizing a system comprising at least one transfer cylinder having a heated working surface, comprising processing a non-woven fibrous web material in paper form in overlapping contact with a sublimation dye transfer paper having a decorative pattern to be printed, around a portion of the working surface of the transfer cylinder between a first location and a nip roller engaged against the working surface which exerts a rolling force against the web material, the transfer paper and the working surface as the transfer cylinder rotates about a central axis thereof, at a processing temperature to effect transfer of the decorative pattern from the transfer paper to the web material, the system including a tensioning mechanism disposed proximal the first location, which, in combination with the nip roller, maintains the web material at a sufficient tension to preclude lateral movement of the web material during processing of the web material and the

Abstract: Substantially transparent printing blankets are provided comprising a substantially transparent printing layer disposed upon a substantially transparent support layer. The substantial transparency of such printing blankets permits off-press introduction of knock-out areas. In certain embodiments, this is accomplished by disposing the support layer of the printing blanket adjacent to a substrate which bears either an image to be printed or some other print transfer information (such as a negative) corresponding to the image. The print transfer information then is viewed through the printing blanket to identify portions of the underlying substrate which bear information indicating that print should not appear on a corresponding portion of the coated substrate. After such portions are identified, the printing layer is removed from the support layer in those areas of the printing blanket which are adjacent to the identified portions of the substrate.

Abstract: In order to achieve deposit of very complex embossed designs which require thick layers of inks or paints in sharply defined patterns on flexible sheet substrate material suitable for packaging and high-volume production, a new combination of production sheet-fed printing elements is disclosed. As the typical materials will be sheet material supplied on rollers, a continuous process of moving the material from a supply roller to a take-up roller through a series of application and curing steps is provided, including elements for the steps of thick-deposit of design print material, embossing or impressing the deposited material, curing the material and sealing or covering the print material, and taking up the imprinted material for further shaping or processing.

Abstract: A decorated shaped product having an expression or design applied thereto which closely resembles an actual expression of a source material such as a natural object is disclosed. The product includes a shaped base material formed thereon with a flow pattern and a transfer pattern of which at least a part is subjected to a concealment exposing treatment and which is printed on the shaped base material. Also, a method manufacturing the product and the shaped base material are disclosed.

Abstract: An improved method for transferring single and multicolored images on to substrates having the following process steps. Copying a mirror image of the image on to a transfer sheet using pigmented softenable ink, placing the transfer sheet with the mirror image thereon against the substrate with the image and pigmented softenable ink therebetween, softening the ink and bonding the image to the substrate, and removing the transfer paper leaving the image in pigmented ink on the substrate.

Abstract: An apparatus and method allowing the changing of image plates or cassettes in an offset printing apparatus without the need to stop the press. Each blanket cylinder is associated with two image cylinders, where each image cylinder carries an associated image plate or cassette. When one of the image cylinders is engaged with the blanket cylinder, thereby transferring an image for printing on the web, the other image cylinder is disengaged from the blanket cylinder. As a result, the other image cylinder is stopped, allowing the image plate or cassette to be changed without the need to stop the entire press operation. After the image plate or cassette is changed on the stopped image cylinder, that image cylinder may be subsequently engaged with the blanket cylinder, while the other image cylinder is disengaged, thereafter allowing that image cylinder to have its image plate or cassette changed.

Abstract: A process for thermal transfer printing on plastic films incorporating a coating composition is provided. The process includes providing plastic film having a coating composition including a binder of a polymer and/or copoylmer of carboxylic acid containing vinylic unsaturation, at least one finely divided particulate filler, and a surface active agent. A thermographic element such as a ribbon which includes a dye layer is then heated in the form of an image to be printed onto the plastic film, with the heating causing the dye layer to melt in the form of the image. The plastic film coated with the coating composition is contacted with the thermographic ribbon, and the dye layer is transferred from the ribbon to the plastic film. Such thermal transfer printing on coated plastic films provides for a multitude of uses such as plastic labels for outdoor use.

Abstract: A color filter for an AMLCD panel has a pattern of multi-color dots, each dot having red, green, and blue components in a black matrix. Each component is the cured product of a color pigment dispersed in a radiation-curable ink. The ink may be an ink curable by a cationic mechanism, a free-radical ink, or a hybrid, free-radical/cationic ink. The filter is produced by successively applying patterns of colored inks to a transfer roll, collecting the patterns on a collector roll to form an array of multi-color dots that is transferred to the substrate, and irradiating the array of dots to at least partially cure the inks.

Abstract: A method of forming a marking portion on a golf ball. A toner image is formed on a release sheet on its release side by an electrostatic copying machine, and a transfer (adhesive) sheet is then placed on the release sheet under pressure such that the adhesive surface thereof contacts the toner image so as to transfer the toner image onto the adhesive surface. Subsequently, the transfer sheet is removed from the release sheet, and the toner image on the transfer sheet is impregnated with a chemical which dissolves the toner image without causing the toner image to run. The transfer sheet is then pressed against a golf ball such that the toner image on the transfer sheet contacts the marking-portion forming surface of the golf ball so as to transfer the toner image onto the marking-portion forming surface. Subsequently, the transfer sheet is removed from the golf ball.

Abstract: Prints are produced by the offset heatset process using a printing ink based on mineral oil and additionally using an agent for increasing the abrasion resistance of the prints, where the agent for increasing the abrasion resistance is an oxidized olefin polymer which has a melt viscosity of from 100 to 15,000 mm.sup.2 /s, measured in accordance with DGF M-III 8 (75), and an acid number of from 5 to 50 mg of KOH/g of polymer, measured in accordance with DGF M-IV 2 (57).