Abstract: Disclosed is a method and apparatus for improving printed image quality. The image quality improvement is achieved by differentially curing different image elements such as continuous tone elements, uniform tinted and solid elements, color elements, line art and text elements. A delay in the activation, duration and variation in the intensity of the curing radiation or a mix of some or all of them that follows the ink droplet on substrate deposition controls the ink droplet spread and accordingly the image quality.

Abstract: A small footprint drum inkjet printer having a print head consisting of a number of print head arrays; a substrate carrier preferably in the form of a drum with vacuum orifices therein, a substrate loading cassette capable of movement, relative to the drum, in at least one direction; a substrate unloading cassette capable of movement, relative to the drum, in at least one direction, and a curing radiation source having a reflector which extends along the drum surface.

Abstract: A small footprint drum inkjet printer having a print head consisting of a number of print head arrays; a substrate carrier preferably in the form of a drum with vacuum orifices therein, a substrate loading cassette capable of movement, relative to the drum, in at least one direction; a substrate unloading cassette capable of movement, relative to the drum, in at least one direction, and a curing radiation source having a reflector which extends along the drum surface.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method of multi pass inkjet printing on wide format flexible substrates where errors in flexible substrate positions are corrected by adapting the geometry and position of the next printed swath to the geometry of the adjacent earlier printed image swath.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method of multi pass inkjet printing on wide format flexible substrates where errors in flexible substrate positions are corrected by adapting the geometry and position of the next printed swath to the geometry of the adjacent earlier printed image swath.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method and apparatus for improving printed image quality. The image quality improvement is achieved by differentially curing different image elements such as continuous tone elements, uniform tinted and solid elements, color elements, line art and text elements. A delay in the activation, duration and variation in the intensity of the curing radiation or a mix of some or all of them that follows the ink droplet on substrate deposition controls the ink droplet spread and accordingly the image quality.

Abstract: A printing method and system, which includes at least one printing apparatus, is provided. Each printing apparatus includes an ink jet device comprising at least one ink jet nozzle to eject droplets of ink according to image data, a printing member having ink-attracting areas each located within an ink repelling area. One or more of the ink attracting areas may receive the droplets of ink ejected from the ink jet device in a pattern corresponding to the image data. Each printing apparatus also includes a transfer system to transfer the inked pattern from the printing member onto a printing substrate.

Abstract: According to some embodiments of the present invention, a connectable electronic component-carrying board is provided. The connectable electronic board comprises at least one resilient conductive element integrally molded onto at least part of a contact of the connectable board. The resilient conductive element is able to provide an electrical pathway between the contact it is molded to and a corresponding contact on another electronic component-carrying board. A method of fabricating the connectable electronic component-carrying board is also provided.

Abstract: A printing device including a laser for generating at least one laser beam, a controller, a print head having a plurality of orifices, and an ink supply for supplying ink to the print head. The controller modulates the at least one modulated laser beam according to image data to be printed. The at least one modulated laser beam selectively generates a directional acoustic wave within the print head, thereby inducing an ink droplet to exit a selected one of the orifices onto a printing substrate. A print head including a single buffer chamber, a body, and a single ink chamber. The buffer chamber stores a buffer liquid therein with the body forming one wall of that chamber. The ink chamber shares the body as a wall. The ink chamber stores ink therein and has a plurality of orifices on a wall opposite to the body.

Abstract: A printing method and system, which includes at least one printing apparatus, is provided. Each printing apparatus includes an ink jet device comprising at least one ink jet nozzles to eject droplets of ink according to image data, a printing member having ink-attracting areas each located within an ink repelling area. One or more of the ink attracting areas may receive the droplets of ink ejected from the ink jet device in a pattern corresponding to the image data. Each printing apparatus also includes a transfer system to transfer the inked pattern from the printing member onto a printing substrate.

Abstract: According to some embodiments of the present invention, a connectable electronic component-carrying board is provided. The connectable electronic board comprises at least one resilient conductive element integrally molded onto at least part of a contact of the connectable board. The resilient conductive element is able to provide an electrical pathway between the contact it is molded to and a corresponding contact on another electronic component-carrying board. A method of fabricating the connectable electronic component-carrying board is also provided.

Abstract: A method and system for printing on a dimensionally-unstable substrate, such as textile is provided. According to some embodiments of the present invention, the method comprising pressing the substrate onto an adhesive surface of a dimensionally-stable film, thus forming a unified dimensionally-stable substrate and substantially immediately thereafter advancing the unified dimensionally-stable substrate in a predetermined direction while printing.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to various apparatuses and methods for prevention of anilox roller scoring and compensation for anilox scoring ink marks, focusing on the anilox roller. According to some embodiments of the present invention, the uneven ink distribution pattern may be treated by an addition of an ink distribution mechanism. According to other embodiments of the present invention, image data modification methods are used for compensation for the scoring marks.

Abstract: A printing method and system which includes at least one printing apparatus is provided. Each printing apparatus includes a printing member for selectively receiving ink into an ink receptive portion, the ink receptive portion includes a plurality of ink receptive dots forming a pattern in a desired resolution and an ink repelling portion, the ink repelling portion includes the entire area of the printing member except the ink receptive dots. Each printing apparatus includes at least one printing unit, preferably but not necessarily an ink-jet printing unit, the printing unit for applying ink onto the printing member in accordance with a pattern representing an image to be printed, thereby forming an ink image on a portion of the ink receptive dots, and a transfer system for transferring the ink image onto a printing substrate.

Abstract: A printing method and system which includes at least one printing apparatus is provided. Each printing apparatus includes a printing member for selectively receiving ink into an ink receptive portion, the ink receptive portion includes a plurality of ink receptive dots forming a pattern in a desired resolution and an ink repelling portion, the ink repelling portion includes the entire area of the printing member except the ink receptive dots. Each printing apparatus includes at least one printing unit, preferably but not necessarily an ink-jet printing unit, the printing unit for applying ink onto the printing member in accordance with a pattern representing an image to be printed, thereby forming an ink image on a portion of the ink receptive dots, and a transfer system for transferring the ink image onto a printing substrate.

Abstract: A duplex color web press, wherein each section, which prints both faces of the web with any one ink type and color, is configured with a single printing cylinder and, in the case of a digitally recording press, with a single recording head. The single printing cylinder carries the inking versions of both the recto and verso images around its circumference and the web is routed through two printing stations, both associated with the single printing cylinder, so that one of its faces is imprinted in one station and the other face--in the other station. The resultant print on each face is alternating recto and verso images, such that a recto image on one face is in the back of a verso image on the other face, and vice versa.

Abstract: A processless visible light insensitive, IR sensitive printing member, is provided together with a method for producing the printing member. The method includes the steps of providing a visible light sensitive printing member and the step of processing the visible light sensitive printing member so as to receive a visible light insensitive, IR radiation sensitive printing member therefrom. The processing step is carried out in a visible light free environment.

Abstract: A sheet holding device includes a sheet-holder having a concavely-curved surface for receiving a sheet, a sheet feeder at a first end of the concavely-curved surface for feeding a sheet thereon, a releasable holder at the second end of the concavely-curved surface including a recess in the concavely-curved surface at the second end located to be covered by the leading edge of the sheet, and a vacuum-producing device selectively actuatable to produce a vacuum in the recess when covered by the leading edge of the sheet.