Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
270100020 | Personalized printing (e.g., name or address) | 6 |
20080258370 | Book production apparatus and method of producing books - A book product apparatus includes a gathering line and a plurality of feeding devices adapted to dispense at least one signature onto the gathering line. The apparatus further includes a controller operatively connected to the plurality of feeding devices for controlling the operation of the feeding devices, wherein a comparison of two customer data sources generates instructions for the feeding devices. | 10-23-2008 |
20090039583 | Edge Marking for Document Identification - A method receives a multi-page print job comprising content to be printed on sheets to produce a stack of printed sheets. Each of the sheets comprises sheet sides and sheet edges between the sheet sides, wherein the content is printed on at least one of the sheet sides. The method identifies a side mark to appear on at least one stack side of the stack of printed sheets (the stack side comprises the sheet edges). The method determines locations within the print job of side markings to be printed simultaneously with the content on the sheet sides (a combination of the side markings create the side mark). The method prints the multi-page print job to produce the stack of printed sheets with the side mark on the stack side. | 02-12-2009 |
20100156019 | Collating System - A co-mailing system uses an insert machine to merge different mail streams into one stream in the sequence of a master mail list. By using an insert machine with vertically oriented pockets traveling on a moving conveyor, the speed of merging the mail streams is high and efficiency is obtained. | 06-24-2010 |
20100244352 | IN-LINE SHELL PROCESSING - A method of printing and assembling a printed product including unrolling a continuous web of paper from a roll on a printing line, printing non-personalized information on the paper on the printing line, printing personalized information on the paper on a finishing line, performing at least one paper conversion step after printing the personalized information to create a personalized signature on the finishing line, and feeding the personalized signature into a pocket on the finishing line. | 09-30-2010 |
20110037214 | IN-LINE SHELL PROCESSING - A system is provided for printing and assembling printed products. The system includes a binding line and a plurality of pockets for delivering signatures to the binding line. A personalization line is associated with one of the plurality of pockets. The personalization line includes a printer configured to print variable information on a substrate and a converter positioned downstream of the printer and configured to convert the substrate into a variable signature including the variable information | 02-17-2011 |
20140001694 | IN-LINE SHELL PROCESSING | 01-02-2014 |