Quadtech, Inc.

Quad/graphics, Inc.

Thomas A Quadracci

Thomas R Wickert

William T Graushar

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.

Multi-mailer

Multi-mailer combining pre-personalized items with items not

A method of and apparatus for controlling the amount of ink and water supplied to the plate cylinder of a web offset press. The web offset press operates to print an image on a travelling substrate and the method includes the steps of: (A) monitoring a characteristic of the substrate; (B) changing by a known quantity the amount of ink supplied to the plate cylinder in response to said monitored characteristic; (C) monitoring the change in the characteristic after the step (B) to determine whether the density of ink supplied to the substrate has changed in response to the step (B); and (D) decreasing the amount of water supplied to the plate cylinder when the monitored characteristic does not change in response to the step (B).

System and method for regulating dampening fluid in a printing press

Disclosed herein is a method of forming a graphic image having the appearance of three-dimensionality, the method comprising the steps of: providing a preformed lenticular film having a flat side and having a side with lenticules opposite the flat side; and printing an image on the flat side of the lenticular film using web fed printing to produce a graphic image web in which the perceptible image possesses photographically acceptable quality, wherein the image elements are printed on the lenticular film at an angle which corresponds to the pitch of the lenticules of the lenticular film.

Method for forming a graphic image web

The present invention is a method for forming a graphic image web including a precursor image web combined with a congruent lenticular lens to produce the illusion of three dimensionality in a visually perceptible image on the graphic image web. To produce this illusion of three dimensionality, an image field including an object is defined. The object is imagewise exposed onto a photographically sensitive element over a plurality of spatially disparate views through a lenticular lens having a prescribed optical geometry. Upon developing the latent image on said element, it is printed to form the precursor image web. The congruent lenticular lens is then combined with the precursor image web to create the graphic image web having graphic information imparted with the illusion of three dimensionality.

The present invention is a method for forming a graphic image web including a precursor image web combined with a congruent lenticular lens web to produce the illusion of three dimensionality in a visually perceptible image on the graphic image web. To produce this illusion of three dimensionality, an image field including an object is defined. The object is imagewise exposed onto a photographically sensitive element over a plurality of spatially disparate views through a lenticular lens having a prescribed optical geometry. Upon developing the latent image on said element, it is printed to form the precursor image web. The congruent lenticular lens web is then optically combined with the precursor image web to create the graphic image web having graphic information of photographically acceptable quality imparted with the illusion of three dimensionality.

A method of highly accurate printing using a web offset press, particularly suited for stereographic printing. Consistent reproductions of a composite image are produced on a paper web, and registry between the image and an embossed screen is maintained, by preshrinking (e.g., reducing the moisture content of) the paper prior to printing the composite image on the paper web. Preshrinking the paper prevents the subsequent ink drying operation from causing shrinkage of the paper and concomitant variations in the image, permitting inline formation of a screen in accurate registry with the image.

Method and apparatus for stereographic printing with preshrinking

A customizing system for signatures delivered by signature feeders to a conveyor includes a variable selection device comprising a plurality of vanes, each of which has elongated guide members extending to the signature feeders and a switchplate selectively alignable with the vanes and cooperable with the guide members to define an extended travel path over which a signature selected from the feeders may be customized.

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Brookfield, WI, United States of America

Thomas A Quadracci