Patents Assigned to Quad/Graphics, Inc.
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Patent number: 6829521Abstract: A log of printed products having thereon an identification that is programmable and then readable to access information regarding the printed products that make up the log such as product identification, orientation and destination, the printed products including either bound and non-bound printed products.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2003Date of Patent: December 7, 2004Assignee: Quad/Graphics, Inc.Inventors: William T. Graushar, John C. Geres, Edward J. Anderson
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Publication number: 20040218995Abstract: A finishing line including at least one buffer operable to receive printed products and deliver the printed products to the same or different finishing line. The buffer allows the finishing process to continue operating while one section of the finishing line is being repaired.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 30, 2004Publication date: November 4, 2004Applicant: Quad/Graphics, Inc.Inventor: William T. Graushar
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Publication number: 20040173958Abstract: The invention relates to a method of sequentially delivering printed products to a binding or mailing line. Each printed product includes order indicia thereon and is delivered to a feeder adjacent the binding or mailing line. The order indicia is read by a reader and analyzed by a controller. The controller transmits a signal to the feeder to deliver the printed products to the binding line or mailing line based on a predetermined order.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 4, 2003Publication date: September 9, 2004Applicant: Quad/Graphics, Inc.Inventor: William T. Graushar
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Publication number: 20040173956Abstract: An apparatus and method for delivering signatures to a binding line, the apparatus and method preferably comprising a printer feeder apparatus and method for providing personalized information in a variety of locations upon a selected one of a plurality of signatures types before the signatures are fed to the binding line.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 26, 2004Publication date: September 9, 2004Applicant: Quad/Graphics, Inc.Inventors: William T. Graushar, John C. Geres
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Publication number: 20040148053Abstract: A method and apparatus for assembling personalized CDs, DVDs and other types of optical disks, magnetic media, and data storage devices into magazines, catalogs, pamphlets, and other printed products in order to enhance the amount and quality of personalization associated with the printed product includes reading and/or writing personalized information to/from a data storage device and assembling the data storage device within a printed product that is to be delivered to a particular individual. The reading and/or writing of personalized information may be directed to either digital information stored on the data storage device or to more conventional optical indicia that is printed on and/or optically scanned from the data storage device.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 29, 2003Publication date: July 29, 2004Applicant: Quad/Graphics, Inc.Inventors: William T. Graushar, John C. Geres
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Publication number: 20040143365Abstract: A log of printed products having thereon an identification that is programmable and then readable to access information regarding the printed products that make up the log such as product identification, orientation and destination, the printed products including either bound and non-bound printed products.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 29, 2003Publication date: July 22, 2004Applicant: Quad/Graphics, Inc.Inventors: William T. Graushar, John C. Geres, Edward J. Anderson
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Patent number: 6742778Abstract: The invention provides for an improved signature hopper loader for feeding signatures to a hopper on a binding line. The hopper loader includes two conveyor assemblies that work together to feed signatures to the hopper. The first conveyor assembly is connected to the second conveyor assembly such that there is an angle in the range of 110-120 degrees between the first and second conveyor assemblies. The first and second conveyor assemblies also include forming guides that serve to fan, or deblock, the signatures that are traveling along the first or second conveyor assembly. As the signatures travel over the forming guides, they are bent to give the signatures rigidity and to further facilitate deblocking. The hopper loader further includes an opposing belt that is held on top of at least a portion of one of the transporting belts. The opposing belt is hinged to the frame of the hopper loader and preferably swings down on top of the center belt in the second conveyor.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2002Date of Patent: June 1, 2004Assignee: Quad/Graphics, Inc.Inventor: Jon M. Ferus
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Patent number: 6694219Abstract: A method and apparatus for assembling personalized CDs, DVDs and other types of optical disks, magnetic media, and data storage devices into magazines, catalogs, pamphlets, and other printed products in order to enhance the amount and quality of personalization associated with the printed product includes reading and/or writing personalized information to/from a data storage device and assembling the data storage device within a printed product that is to be delivered to a particular individual. The reading and/or writing of personalized information may be directed to either digital information stored on the data storage device or to more conventional optical indicia that is printed on and/or optically scanned from the data storage device.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2002Date of Patent: February 17, 2004Assignee: Quad/Graphics, Inc.Inventors: William T. Graushar, John C. Geres
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Patent number: 6682062Abstract: An apparatus and method for delivering signatures to a binding line, the apparatus and method preferably comprising a printer feeder apparatus and method for providing personalized information in a variety of locations upon a selected one of a plurality of signatures types before the signatures are fed to the binding line.Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 2002Date of Patent: January 27, 2004Assignee: Quad/Graphics, Inc.Inventors: William T. Graushar, John C. Geres
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Patent number: 6675062Abstract: A log of printed products having thereon an identification that is programmable and then readable to access information regarding the printed products that make up the log such as product identification, orientation and destination. The printed products include either bound or non-bound printed products. A method of utilizing a smart log includes creating a log of printed products, programming an identification associated with the log with information relating to the printed products, coupling the identification to the log, transporting the log to a destination for processing, reading the identification while the identification is coupled to the log, and handling the log in response to the information read from the identification.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2002Date of Patent: January 6, 2004Assignee: Quad/Graphics, Inc.Inventors: William T. Graushar, John C. Geres, Edward J. Anderson
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Publication number: 20030139845Abstract: A log of printed products having thereon an identification that is programmable and then readable to access information regarding the printed products that make up the log such as product identification, orientation and destination, the printed products including either bound and non-bound printed products.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 31, 2002Publication date: July 24, 2003Applicant: Quad/Graphics, Inc.Inventors: William T. Graushar, John C. Geres, Edward J. Anderson
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Publication number: 20030093179Abstract: The combination of a first and a second product mail streams wherein the first stream includes wrapped products and the second stream includes unwrapped products.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 1, 2002Publication date: May 15, 2003Applicant: Quad/Graphics, Inc.Inventor: Eric E. Blohm
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Publication number: 20030062293Abstract: The invention relates to the combination of mail streams in a printing finishing process.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 1, 2002Publication date: April 3, 2003Applicant: Quad/Graphics, Inc.Inventors: William T. Graushar, John C. Geres
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Publication number: 20030030208Abstract: An apparatus and method for delivering signatures to a binding line, the apparatus and method preferably comprising a printer feeder apparatus and method for providing personalized information in a variety of locations upon a selected one of a plurality of signatures types before the signatures are fed to the binding line.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 7, 2002Publication date: February 13, 2003Applicant: Quad/Graphics, Inc.Inventors: William T. Graushar, John C. Geres
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Publication number: 20020100253Abstract: A method and apparatus for assembling personalized CDs, DVDs and other types of optical disks, magnetic media, and data storage devices into magazines, catalogs, pamphlets, and other printed products in order to enhance the amount and quality of personalization associated with the printed product includes reading and/or writing personalized information to/from a data storage device and assembling the data storage device within a printed product that is to be delivered to a particular individual. The reading and/or writing of personalized information may be directed to either digital information stored on the data storage device or to more conventional optical indicia that is printed on and/or optically scanned from the data storage device.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 30, 2002Publication date: August 1, 2002Applicant: Quad/Graphics, Inc.Inventors: William T. Graushar, John C. Geres
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Patent number: 6415582Abstract: An apparatus and a method to produce magazines, books, catalogues, brochures, periodicals, or the like on a collation or binding line, transport these products in a single stream of products towards a packaging line, divide the single stream of products into distinct streams of products where one such stream comprises products requiring wrapping and another such stream comprises products which do not require wrapping, transport the products requiring wrapping to a wrapping machine and sending these products through a wrapping process, transport the products that do not require wrapping around the wrapping machine, and merge the separate streams of products back into a single stream of products such that the products are arranged in a predetermined output order, such as demographic order.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 2001Date of Patent: July 9, 2002Assignee: Quad/Graphics, Inc.Inventors: William T. Graushar, John C. Geres
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Patent number: 6347260Abstract: A method for combining in zip code order pre-personalized printed items with items that are not pre-personalized. The method includes the step of producing a grouping of the pre-personalized items in zip code order according to a first mailing list. The first mailing list is merged with a second mailing list associated with the items that are not pre-personalized to produce a master mailing list of a desired zip code order. The pre-personalized items and the items that are not pre-personalized are selectively fed to a conveyor in the desired zip code order. The items that are not pre-addressed are addressed and the zip code bundles are prepared according to the master mailing list.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2000Date of Patent: February 12, 2002Assignee: Quad/Graphics, Inc.Inventors: William T. Graushar, Thomas A. Quadracci
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Publication number: 20010037624Abstract: The present invention provides an apparatus and a method to produce magazines, books, catalogues, brochures, periodicals, or the like on a collation or binding line, transport these products in a single stream of products towards a packaging line, divide the single stream of products into distinct streams of products where one such stream comprises products requiring wrapping and another such stream comprises products which do not require wrapping, transport the products requiring wrapping to a wrapping machine and sending these products through a wrapping process, transport the products that do not require wrapping around the wrapping machine, and merge the separate streams of products back into a single stream of products such that the products are arranged in a predetermined output order, such as demographic order.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 16, 2001Publication date: November 8, 2001Applicant: Quad/Graphics, Inc.Inventors: Willliam T. Graushar, John C. Geres
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Patent number: 6302388Abstract: The present invention concerns an apparatus and a method for securing an item to a cover of printed material. According to one aspect of the present invention, the item is displayed in such a manner so as to enable the item to be viewed through the cover but also reduce the appropriation of the item from the cover before the printed material reaches the end user.Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 1999Date of Patent: October 16, 2001Assignee: Quad/Graphics, Inc.Inventors: William T. Graushar, John C. Geres
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Publication number: 20010028140Abstract: An apparatus and method for delivering signatures to a binding line, the apparatus and method preferably comprising a printer feeder apparatus and method for providing personalized information in a variety of locations upon a selected one of a plurality of signatures types before the signatures are fed to the binding line.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 13, 2001Publication date: October 11, 2001Applicant: Quad/Graphics, Inc.Inventors: William T. Graushar, John C. Geres