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US 9,346,258 B2Granted
Method for cleaning anti-marking jackets
AssigneePrinting Research, Inc.
InventorsHoward W. DeMoore, Arnold Cooper, David Dean Douglas, W. Scott Brown, Joey V. Le
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Abstract
A removable flexible jacket for use in a printing press having a transfer cylinder for transferring a freshly printed substrate comprises a sheet of woven fabric, a beaded film sheet coupled to the sheet of woven fabric, and an image disposed between the sheet of woven fabric and the beaded film sheet. The image is visible through the beaded film sheet, and wherein the image divides at least a portion of a surface of the beaded film sheet into a plurality of zones.
Claims18
A method of printing substrates, comprising:
- printing a substrate, wherein the printed substrate is transferred by a transfer cylinder covered by a removable flexible jacket comprising an image having a first plurality of zones;
- aligning a lattice with the printed substrate, wherein the lattice comprises a second plurality of zones corresponding to the first plurality of zones of the image of the removable flexible jacket;
- matching a position of a mark on the printed substrate to a first zone of the second plurality of zones of the lattice, wherein the first zone corresponds to a second zone of the first plurality of zones of the image of the removable flexible jacket;
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- cleaning a surface layer of the removable flexible jacket over the second zone of the removable flexible jacket.
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