Abstract: An application utensil for transferring a coloring composition in one of many patterns onto skin includes a wheel comprising a pattern of raised and submerged regions on an outer tread surface of the wheel; a wheel well that supports the wheel and allows rotation of the wheel, wherein the wheel is removable from the wheel well; and a manual grip connected to the wheel well. A plurality of different application utensils and wheels are disclosed. Application utensils are interchangeable as are the wheels to allow many combinations according to consumer preference.

Abstract: Disclosed is a paint roller device comprising an inner hub and an outer hub spaced by a cage of wires and adapted for supporting a paint roll sleeve. A cylindrical retainer extends axially outwardly from the outer hub and is adapted to retain a ball therein, the cylindrical retainer being spaced radially inwardly from the periphery of the outer hub to define a gap between an inside surface of the paint roll sleeve when on the roller. The end of the paint roll sleeve on the paint roller device and an end of the retainer define a plane perpendicular to an axis of the roller, and at least a portion of the ball extends a predetermined distance axially outwardly from the plane. The gap between the sleeve and the cylindrical extension prevents paint from interfering with the ball.

Abstract: A skin treatment device having a treatment window for treating skin through the treatment window and a user guide to deliver a tactile feedback signal during movement in stepwise increments of the treatment window along the skin.

Abstract: A hand holdable ink proofing tool including an anilox roll and an ink transfer roll, supporting a resilient printing plate. A metering roll adjacent the anilox roll is shiftable to be in contact with the anilox roll and to force ink into cells of the anilox roll; and a leading edge doctor blade is positioned to shear excess ink from a surface of the anilox roll.

Abstract: A hand holdable ink proofing tool including an anilox roll and an ink transfer roll, supporting a resilient printing plate. A metering roll adjacent the anilox roll is shiftable to be in contact with the anilox roll and to force ink into cells of the anilox roll; and a leading edge doctor blade is positioned to shear excess ink from a surface of the anilox roll.

Abstract: An indirect printer includes a system for alternating the pressure in a transfer nip by manipulating the transfer roller. The system includes a pair of pivotable collars mounted about the ends of the transfer roller. The collars are pivoted towards or away from one another to bend the transfer roller and to increase or decrease, respectively, the pressure in the longitudinal center of the nip.

Abstract: A manually operable proofing apparatus for performing sample test printings comprises a table for supporting a printable substrate, a carriage supported on the table for reciprocal movement along the printing surface, and a proofer assembly comprising an anilox roller for applying a printing material to the substrate. The carriage and the proofer assembly have matable quick-connect elements for selective attachment and detachment of the proofer assembly to, and from the carriage without fasteners or tools. The quick-connect element of the proofer assembly comprises a pair of bearings, and the quick-connect element of the carriage comprises a bracket defining an open receiving area for mated receipt of the bearing elements of the proofer assembly. The bracket of the carriage has a detent for retaining the bearing elements in an operational disposition supporting the anilox roller adjacent the printing surface when the bearing elements are mated within the receiving area.

Abstract: A method of predicting the performance of a printing press for a printing job includes preparing a first printing plate and securing the printing plate to a proofing device then adjusting the proofing device to optimize ink transfer from an anilox roll to the printing plate and from the printing plate to a substrate. An operator then prepares a printing proof on the substrate and evaluates the printing proof to predict the performance of a second printing plate on the printing press. The invention may also include a plate for printing that includes a printing press portion that is dimensioned to be secured to a printing press and a proofing portion that is dimensioned to be secured to a proofing tool that are separable.

Abstract: An apparatus for vacuum thermoforming and printing plastic articles from a continuous web of plastic material in which a rotatable vacuum thermoforming drum has a plurality of vacuum thermoforming dies mounted on circumferentially surfaces. The drum further comprises a gear path and a cam path, each with a plurality of substantially flat and curved sections. A print structure in a frame includes a device for imparting ink to the articles after they are formed, and a linear bearing adapted to allow the printing cylinder to move in a constrained motion substantially normal to the central axis. The printing cylinder comprises a shaft with a pinion gear to engage the gear path and a cam roller to engage the cam path. As the drum rotates, the articles are formed, printed and separated in substantially a single operation.

Abstract: A proofing tool including an anilox roll and a transfer roll that are shiftable relative to each other between an engaged position and a disengaged position. The invention further includes a positive rotational linkage between the transfer roll and a drive roll whereby a pitch velocity of the transfer roll and a pitch velocity of the transfer roll are substantially matched.

Abstract: Substrate treatment apparatus, printers, and methods to treat a print substrate are disclosed. An example apparatus includes a first roller to receive a treatment fluid from a reservoir, a blade to adjust an amount of the treatment fluid present on the first roller, and a second roller to receive an adjusted amount of the treatment fluid from the first roller and to apply the treatment fluid to a substrate, the treatment fluid applied to the substrate to result in a layer of treatment fluid less than about 0.4 micrometers thick on the substrate.

Abstract: A hand holdable ink proofing tool including an anilox roll and an ink transfer roll, supporting a resilient printing plate. A metering roll adjacent the anilox roll is shiftable to be in contact with the anilox roll and to force ink into cells of the anilox roll; and a leading edge doctor blade is positioned to shear excess ink from a surface of the anilox roll.

Abstract: An ink roller (40) for a hand-held labelling device with a jacket-shaped ink receiving roller (42) and an ink roller axis (43), wherein the ink receiving roller (42) is disposed on the ink roller axis (43) in such a fashion that the free ends of the ink roller axis (43) project on both sides past the end faces of the ink receiving roller (42), and a hand-held labelling device having an ink roller (40) of this type. One gripping disk (46) that is spaced apart from the ink receiving roller (42) is thereby provided at each free end of the ink roller axis (43).

Abstract: A method and apparatus for vacuum thermoforming disposable drink cups lids. The method and apparatus include the step of imparting printing to the lids in two or more colors. The step of imparting printing to the lids is done while the lids are in contact with the vacuum thermoforming platen.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for vacuum thermoforming disposable drink cups lids including the step of imparting printing to the lids in two or more colors while they are in contact with the vacuum thermoforming platen.

Abstract: The invention describes a printing press comprising a plurality of inking systems (5), which cooperate with at least one impression cylinder (2), each inking system (5) comprising a print roller (8) and at least one additional ink-transfer roller (9), each of which comprises a roller body (39), at the front sides of which a first and a second end shaft journal (41, 42) is disposed, and at least one roller-bearing device (30), in which print rollers and ink-transfer rollers can be mounted in roller-bearing positions (31, 32), and transfer means (20 to 27), by means of which at least print rollers (8) or ink-transfer rollers (9) can be transported between the roller-bearing positions and the inking systems. At least one roller-bearing position (32), in which one of said rollers (8, 9) can be set up for a subsequent print job, is provided in the roller-bearing device (30).

Abstract: A stamp wheel assembly adapted for use as part of an ink stamp system comprising an axle assembly and first, second, and third wheel members. Each of the first, second, and third wheel members defines a stamp surface. At least two of the first, second, and third wheel members are supported by the axle assembly in a plurality of configurations. At least two of the first, second, and third wheel members are supported by the axle assembly in the plurality of configurations to define a plurality of angular relationships among the at least two of the first, second and third wheel members. The stamp surfaces of the at least two of the first, second, and third wheel members supported by the axle assembly in the plurality of configurations define a plurality of ink images. At least two of the plurality of ink images are unique.

Abstract: A film roller for offset printing having a surface with projections and recesses, characterized in that said projections and recesses form an irregular random pattern.

Abstract: A proofing tool including an anilox roll and an impression roll that are shiftable relative to each other between an engaged position and a disengaged position. The invention further includes a positive rotational linkage between the anilox roll and the impression roll whereby a pitch velocity of the anilox roll and a pitch velocity of the impression roll are substantially matched.

Abstract: A proofing tool, including an anilox roll and an impression roll shiftable relative to each other from an engaged position and a disengaged position and a positive stop nip adjustment mechanism. operably connected to the anilox roll and the impression roll and being adjustable whereby when the anilox roll and the impression roll are in the engaged position the positive stop prevents the nip distance from being smaller than a set value.

Abstract: A material processing system for continuously processing a material defining a destination surface. The material processing system comprises an inking wheel and a handle assembly or a roller press assembly and an auxiliary housing. The handle assembly rotatably supports a first print wheel. The roller press assembly comprises a housing assembly that rotatably supports a second print wheel. The auxiliary housing is adapted to be connected to the housing assembly. The inking wheel is adapted to be connected to the handle assembly and to the adapter assembly. The material processing system is used to apply ink to the image surface in either one of first or second modes. In the first mode, the inking wheel is supported by the handle assembly such that the inking wheel is in contact with the first print wheel. In the second mode, the inking wheel is supported by the auxiliary housing such that the inking wheel is in contact with the second print wheel.

Abstract: An elongate stamp device (1) having a pin-shaped base member (2) with two opposing ends (2?, 2?), a stamp wheel (3) being arranged on the one end (2?) of the base member (2) in a rotatably mounted manner on a rotational axis (10), wherein an end cap (4, 4?) fastenable to the base member (2) is provided for receiving the stamp wheel (3) in a transport position, wherein a further inking device (7, 15) is provided on the opposing end (2?) of the base member (2), a further end cap (8, 8?) fastenable to the base member (2) being provided for receiving the further inking device (7, 15) in a transport position, and the base member (2), in its cross-section, is substantially rectangular or elliptical and the rotational axis (10) of the stamp wheel (3) runs parallel to the longer one of the two cross-sectional axes (18?, 18?).

Abstract: An ink proofer arrangement includes an ink proofer tool, a cylindrical drum roller, a drive motor adapted to rotate the roller and a first movable mounting assembly to retain the ink proofer tool adjacent to and in a non-contact position with the roller, a first variable pressure assembly coupled to the mounting assembly and adapted to move the ink proofer tool between a contact with pressure position and a non-contact position with the roller. The ink proofer arrangement also includes a UV light source positioned downstream of the ink proofer tool to more quickly and uniformly dry the inks on the proof substrate. The UV light source may be pivotable to permit access to the proof substrate. The UV light source may be selectively positionable at different distances from the ink proofer tool so as to provide for adjustability of a dwell time for the proof.

Abstract: An ink proofer arrangement to generate consistent and reliable ink draw-downs irrespective of the size of the substrate or the user preparing the ink sample. One example embodiment includes an ink proofer arrangement and an ink proofer tool. The ink proofer arrangement includes a cylindrical roller and a drive motor adapted to rotate the roller. In addition, a first movable mounting assembly is included that retains the ink proofer tool adjacent to and in a non-contact position with the roller. The proofer arrangement further includes a first variable pressure assembly coupled to the mounting assembly and adapted to move the ink proofer tool between the non-contact position and a contact with pressure position with the roller, wherein a transfer roller of the ink proofer tool is adapted to transfer ink to a substrate that is inserted between the roller and the transfer roll when the drive motor is engaged.

Abstract: An ink proofer arrangement to generate consistent and reliable ink drawdowns irrespective of the size of the substrate or the user preparing the ink sample. The ink proofer arrangement includes an ink proofer tool, a cylindrical drum roller, a drive motor adapted to rotate the roller and a first movable mounting assembly to retain the ink proofer tool adjacent to and in a non-contact position with the roller, a first variable pressure assembly coupled to the mounting assembly and adapted to move the ink proofer tool between a contact with pressure position and a non-contact position with the roller. The transfer roller is adapted to transfer ink to a substrate that is inserted between the roller and the transfer roll of the ink proofer tool when the drive motor is engaged. Additionally, the ink proofer arrangement includes a substrate roll tensioner to control the rotation of the substrate roll.

Abstract: A stamping system for forming a continuous image on an image surface. The stamping system comprises a handle assembly, a stamp wheel, and an inking system. The stamp wheel defines a stamp surface and is rotatably attached to the handle assembly. The inking system comprises a cartridge assembly comprising an inking member, an axle, and a housing member. The inking member defines a through-hole and first and second side surfaces. The axle comprises a center portion and first and second flange portions. The axle supports the inking member such that the center portion lies within the through-hole and the first and second flange portions extend at least partly along the first and second side surfaces. The housing member supports the axle for movement relative to the handle assembly. The inking system further comprises a biasing assembly supported by the handle assembly for applying a force on the housing member such that the inking member comes into contact with the stamp surface.

Abstract: An automated banking machine system and method includes ATMs which accept checks and dispense cash to users. The ATMs are operated to acquire image and magnetic data from deposited checks to determine the genuineness of checks and the authority of a user to receive cash for such checks. Cash may be dispensed to the user from the ATM in exchange for the deposited check. The ATMs dispense cash responsive to communications with a transaction host. In addition, the ATM includes an ink bearing roll to print indicia on checks moving in the ATM.

Abstract: A thin-film transistor for an active matrix display is fabricated using printing means, such as a gravure offset printer. First and second pattern layers (251, 252; 30) are formed on a layer structure (4) wherein at least one of the layers is printed. The printed layers (251, 252; 30) mask regions (271, 272, 28) for defining source a and drain terminals. The second pattern layer (28) can be removed so as to allow etching of the second region (28) for defining a channel.

Abstract: A rolling marker assembly enables a user to mark serially-presented, repeating patterns upon a marking surface. The marker assembly comprises an outer casing and a marking caster assembly. The marking caster assembly comprises at least one compressible medium-dispensing pad and at least one pad mask. The pad mask comprises at least one patterned aperture. The medium-dispensing pad is impregnated with a compression-releasable marking medium. The caster assembly is rotatable about an axis of rotation and the medium-dispensing pad is compressible against the pad mask thus forming at least one pattern-exposed pad portion adjacent the patterned aperture. The marker assembly is manually traceable adjacent a marking surface and the pattern-exposed pad portion is compressible upon the marking surface for dispensing the marking medium therefrom for marking a pattern upon the marking surface. The casing enables the user to more effectively guide and compress the caster assembly for marking the pattern(s).

Abstract: The present ink proofer arrangement generates consistent and reliable ink draw downs irrespective of the size of the substrate or the user preparing the ink sample. In one example embodiment, an ink proofer arrangement adapted to be used with an ink proofer tool, the ink proofer tool including an ink transfer roller. The ink proofer arrangement further includes a cylindrical roller and a drive motor adapted to rotate the roller. In addition, a first movable mounting assembly is included that retains the ink proofer tool adjacent to and in a non-contact position with the roller.

Abstract: A system for forming ink impressions. The system comprises a housing, a stamping wheel, and an inking assembly comprising an inking member and a support member comprising a single part and defining at least resilient one arm portion. The housing defines a handle portion and first and bracing portions. The support member deforms to force the inking member against the stamping wheel. The support member may comprise a base portion and an engaging portion, where the engaging portion engages and supports the inking member against the stamping wheel. The at least one arm portion may be arranged between the base portion and the engaging portion.

Abstract: A sleeve is provided with a clamp for removably clamping the sleeve on a mandrel. A rigid ring is mounted inside of the sleeve at each end of the sleeve. Each ring has a generally cylindrical inside surface which includes a curved contact portion which extends for less than 180 degrees and which is engageable with the outside surface of the mandrel. A curved clamp arm is pivotally secured at one end thereof to each ring. An eccentric shaft extends through an opening in the other end of the clamp arm. Rotation of the eccentric shaft moves the clamp arm toward the contact portion of the ring so that the mandrel can be clamped between the clamp arm and the contact portion.

Abstract: A flexographic rotary platen printing press for printing indicia on a web of flexible material moving along a longitudinal axis. The flexographic rotary platen printing press includes a print drum assembly that is affixed to a trolley that is moveable in a linear direction across the web generally transverse to the direction of the web movement. When the web is stopped, the print drum is caused to roll across the web that is sandwiched between the print drum and a flat, planar platen to print indicia onto the web in a line contact. A linear drive system causes the movement of the print drum assembly. The speed of the transverse movement is electronically coordinated to the speed of the rotation of the print drum as it moves across the web to carry out the printing operation.

Abstract: A brayer ball, used in a brayer that is a hand-operated ink-stamping device of small size used for making proofs, is disclosed. This brayer ball consists of a spherical solid or hollow core body, and a ball cover formed on the spherical core body and having an external pattern consisting of a variety of letters, figures and/or characters. The brayer ball smoothly rolls on a target sheet in any desired direction without being limited in its rolling direction during a stamping process. This brayer ball thus prevents a stamped pattern from being distorted, deformed, or undesirably, partially faint or broken.

Abstract: A flexible medium for a scrolling color changer and method of making thereof. The medium is made by applying an ink using a Meyer Rod which has varying cell lengths along its length. This leaves varying size cells of ink at different locations along the length of the medium. The ink has special characteristics whereby its evaporation rate and viscosity are carefully controlled. The viscosity is such that an amount of levelling will occur will be equal to the distance between any cells, but that cell to cell levelling will not, in general, occurs.

Abstract: A ball brayer, provided with a brayer ball fabricated with a patterned ball cover and smoothly rolling on a sheet in any desired direction during a stamping process, is disclosed. This ball brayer includes a roller holder unit consisting of a front head and a handle. A dome-shaped first upper cap unit is seated in the front head of the roller holder unit. A dome-shaped second upper cap unit, having a cylindrical top rod, is seated in the first upper cap unit by the top rod inserted into the inner fitting cylinder of the first upper cap unit. The brayer ball, consisting of a spherical core body and a ball cover formed on the spherical core body, is rotatably seated in the second upper cap unit. A lower support cap unit is detachably mounted to the second upper cap unit. This lower support cap has an opening capable of allowing the brayer ball to be partially exposed outside the second upper cap unit.

Abstract: A brayer ball, used in a brayer that is a hand-operated ink-stamping device of small size used for making proofs, is disclosed. This brayer ball consists of a spherical solid or hollow core body, and a ball cover formed on the spherical core body and having an external pattern consisting of a variety of letters, figures and/or characters. The brayer ball smoothly rolls on a target sheet in any desired direction without being limited in its rolling direction during a stamping process. This brayer ball thus prevents a stamped pattern from being distorted, deformed, or undesirably, partially faint or broken.

Abstract: A ball brayer, provided with a brayer ball fabricated with a patterned ball cover and smoothly rolling on a sheet in any desired direction during a stamping process, is disclosed. This ball brayer includes a roller holder unit consisting of a front head and a handle. A dome-shaped first upper cap unit is seated in the front head of the roller holder unit. A dome-shaped second upper cap unit, having a cylindrical top rod, is seated in the first upper cap unit by the top rod inserted into the inner fitting cylinder of the first upper cap unit. The brayer ball, consisting of a spherical core body and a ball cover formed on the spherical core body, is rotatably seated in the second upper cap unit. A lower support cap unit is detachably mounted to the second upper cap unit. This lower support cap has an opening capable of allowing the brayer ball to be partially exposed outside the second upper cap unit.

Abstract: A manually operable proofer for producing sample test printings of inks and coatings preparatory to a commercial printing operation basically comprises a frame with a spring-loaded handle, a carriage rotatably supporting a printing roll and mounted on the frame for movement between an operative position with the roll secured by the handle for printing operation and an inoperative position with the carriage and roll released by the handle to be accessible for removal for cleaning or exchange with another roll, and a doctor blade assembly urged with a predetermined force into peripheral wiping engagement with the anilox roll when in its operative position. The anilox roll preferably has multiple engraved circumferential bands for executing two or more test printings in a single operation.

Abstract: An ink duct for use with a screen roller which comprises a working doctor blade and a closing doctor blade, wherein the working doctor blade has one or both sides partially or completely coated with an unreleasable coating of a low surface energy substance having a surface energy of 10 to 60 mN/m. This coating prevents disruptive ink deposits from forming on the side of the working doctor blade opposite to the ink retaining portion of the ink duct and reaching the doctored surface of the ink metering roller in an uncontrolled or random manner.

Abstract: Various embodiments of an ink roller assembly include a capillary ink metering unit and a surrounding porous ink retaining sleeve, wherein the unit is comprised of a pair of capillary sections connected to each other and wherein capillary sections include a hollow shaft and discs with intervening ink capillary chambers interconnected by passages. In another embodiment, a capillary ink metering unit includes discs on a solid shaft, wherein there are passages interconnecting capillary chambers. In yet other embodiments, separate sections are provided to enable inks of different colors, viscosities and/or types to be applied to printing members. There is also provision to meter ink to printing members having different faces or areas in accordance with or as function of the sizes of those areas. The ink roller assembly with separate sections can carry both visible ink and visually alterable ink for coding purposes.

Abstract: A tube printer and method for printing information on an interior surface of a tube. The tube printer including a housing, an ink wheel assembly and a print wheel. The housing having at least two side members interconnected by a top plate extending there between and including spring biased guide wheels that cooperatively center the housing within the tube. An operating handle is operatively attached to an end of the housing to provide a means to push and pull the tube printer within the tube. The ink wheel assembly is operatively positioned between the side members of the housing and the print wheel is operatively positioned between the side members of the housing and adjacent the ink wheel and includes a raised surface containing the information to be printed on the interior surface of the tube.

Abstract: A dual roller stencil applicator for applying a stencil pattern to a surface. The applicator has a frame with a handle supporting first and second rollers, the first roller having a porous outer layer for receiving and holding paint and a second roller having a raised stencil design thereon, with the first and second rollers in alignment and movable with respect to each other. The second roller is mounted for selective displacement from the first roller such that when the first roller is to be loaded with paint, the second roller is not in contact with the first roller, and when the apparatus is in an operating condition, the first and second rollers are urged together, permitting the first roller to supply paint to the raised stencil of the second roller. The stencil roller is completely removable from the applicator for cleaning. A drive wheel assembly is coupled to the second roller to rotate the second roller when the second roller is urged against a surface to which a stencil pattern is to be applied.

Abstract: An ink roller device which permits easy and smooth removal and installation of an ink roller without soiling hands and which also ensures a prolonged service life of the ink roller, and a numbering machine which is equipped with the ink roller device. The numbering machine is equipped with a numbering main body comprised of a frame, a character wheel unit which is incorporated in the main body so that it is allowed to move up and down between a printing position and a home position thereof, an operating means equipped with an operating knob which enables the character wheel unit to be depressed against the spring force of a resetting spring, a swinging arm mechanism which is provided on the numbering main body and which can be swung as the operating knob is depressed, and a cassette-type ink roller device which is detachably held at the bottom of the swinging arm mechanism.

Abstract: An assembly for the metered application of a liquid or pasty medium, to a driven printing cylinder includes a container which is fillable with the medium which provides an outlet opening facing the cylinder. A metering roller is rotatably mounted in the outlet opening and has a portion which protrudes from the outlet opening and can be pressed against the driven cylinder. A metering gap formed between the outer surface of the metering roller and a boundary surface of the outlet opening is adjustable.

Abstract: A flexible medium for a scrolling color changer and method of making thereof. The medium is made by applying an ink using a Meyer Rod which has varying cell lengths along its length. This leaves varying size cells of ink at different locations along the length of the medium. The ink has special characteristics whereby its evaporation rate and viscosity are carefully controlled. The viscosity is such that an amount of levelling will occur will be equal to the distance between any cells, but that cell to cell levelling will not, in general, occur.

Abstract: A printing apparatus and method, which uses an ink composition which is at ambient temperatures and which becomes liquid when heated. The apparatus (1) has an ink roller (2) and a print drum (3). The ink roller (2) is for inking the printing elements (4) provided on the print drum (3). A heating block (5) surrounds and radiantly heats the ink roller (2). To maintain the print drum at elevated temperatures, heating elements (8) are provided in the print drum (3). Circuitry is provided to control the temperature of the heating elements (8) and/or heating blocks (5). The apparatus may be clutch or stepper motor driven, and supplied within a packaging machine to print batch or date or codes or the like onto packaging material.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to an anilox roll printing ink hand proofing device which includes a base frame having an elongated member adapted to receive a handle and sideframes; a handle connected to the base frame, sideframes on the base frame, a nesting subframe for an anilox roll, an anilox roll, a doctor blade on the nesting subframe, blade adjustment capabilities, and a transfer roll. The handle includes a hollow elongated member and contains a pressure rod in the hollow elongated member. There is also a pressure rod adjustment mechanism connected to the pressure rod and to the handle so as to indirectly change the pressure on the anilox roll against a transfer roll. Finally, there is a pressure rod release mechanism attached to one of the rod, the pressure rod adjustment mechanism and the handle so as to act as a quick release to release the pressure between the anilox roll and the transfer roll without affecting the pressure rod adjustment mechanism setting.

Abstract: The printing machine according to the invention comprises, for a given cylinder, first means for displacement from a first position corresponding to the work position to a second position, and second means for displacement from said second position to a third position; the shaft of said cylinder comprises an individual drive motor and toothed wheels at its two ends; the second displacement means comprise a set of two racks in which the toothed wheels may mesh, with the result that displacement of said cylinder from the second to the third position is obtained thanks to the rotation of the drive motor of the shaft of said cylinder. It may be question of a machine with automatic change of ink rollers, with at least two double-displacement ink rollers, or of a machine with automatic washing of the plate cylinder, with a double-displacement impression cylinder.

Abstract: An inking roller which includes a plurality of ribs on the exterior thereof and a plurality of recesses for holding ink in between the individual ribs. The inking roller is adapted to be rotated upon contact with a conventional ink fountain and is selectively capable of being locked to prevent rotation thereof at certain times when in contact with the engraving die. The inking roller is adapted to apply engraving ink to the engraving die in the engraving areas thereof and is adapted to wipe the non-engraving areas of the engraving die with the external ribbing on the exterior surface of the cylindrical inking roller.