Microprocessor-based press dampening control
CA 1303899 C · Owner: Rockwell International Corporation · Inventors: Ahern, Patrick J.; Michl, Kurt D.; Mitchell, Allen L.
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A control system for an offset printing press includes a microprocessor-based dampener, register and ink (drink) processor which controls color register inkrate and damprate. Damprate curve data flood requests and adjustments to, individual nozzles on the spraybar can be downloaded from a master work station to the drink processor and used to control the rate at which the spraybar nozzles are pulsed on and the duration that each separate nozzle remains on.
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- Granted June 23, 1992. A Canadian patent filed before October 1, 1989 lasted 17 years from grant, so its term ended June 23, 2009.
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