IPC 7 English version B41M-B41M 9/04

B41M-B41M00904

SECTION B – PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING

B 41

PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS (reproduction or duplication of pictures or patterns by scanning and converting into electrical signals H04N) [4]

B 41 M

PRINTING, DUPLICATING, MARKING, OR COPYING PROCESSES; COLOUR PRINTING (correction of typographical errors B41J; processes for applying transfer pictures or the like B44C 1/16; fluid media for correction of typographical errors by coating C09D 10/00; printing textiles D06P)

Inking and printing with a printer's forme

Letterpress printing, e.g. book printing

Flexographic printing

Lithographic printing

Dry printing

Intaglio printing

Stencil printing; Silk-screen printing

Multicolour printing

using different inks which flow into one another to produce iridescent effects

Printing one ink over another

by applying differently-coloured inks simultaneously to different parts of the printing surface

Metallic printing; Printing with powdered inks

combined with embossing (printing machines for carrying out printing operations combined with embossing B41F 19/02) [2]

Printing on other surfaces than ordinary paper (B41M 1/40 takes precedence)

on metals

on organic plastics, horn, or like materials

on rubber

on glass or ceramic surfaces

on pretreated paper, e.g. on parchment, oiled paper, paper for registration purposes

on wooden surfaces, leather, or linoleum (printing on matches or match boxes when combined with match manufacture C06F 1/18)

Printing on bodies of particular shapes

Printing without contact between forme and surface to be printed, e.g. by using electrostatic fields [2]

Printing processes to produce particular kinds of printed work, e.g. patterns (special designs or pictures per se B44F; manufacturing printed circuits using printing techniques H05K 3/12) [5]

Maps; Sea or meteorological charts

Music

Veined printings; Fluorescent printings; Stereoscopic images; Imitated patterns, e.g. tissues, textiles [5]

Watermarks

Transfer pictures or the like, e.g. decalcomanias

Security printing

Braille printing (typewriters or selective printing mechanisms for Braille printing B41J 3/32) [2]

Particular kinds of wallpapers

Duplicating or marking methods; Sheet materials for use therein (by using light-sensitive materials G03; electrography, magnetography G03G)

025

by transferring ink from the master sheet [4]

by pressure [4]

035

by sublimation or volatilisation of design [4]

using solvent-soluble dyestuffs on the master sheet, e.g. alcohol-soluble [5]

using master sheets coated with jelly-like materials, e.g. gelatin

Sheet materials therefor

by using carbon paper or the like

124

using pressure to make a masked colour visible, e.g. to make a coloured support visible, to create an opaque or transparent pattern, or to form colour by uniting colour-forming components [5]

128

Desensitisers; Compositions for fault correction, detection or identification of the layers [5]

132

Chemical colour-forming components, additives or binders [5]

136

Organic colour formers, e.g. leuco dyes [5]

145

with a lactone or lactam ring [5]

Spiro-pyrans [5]

155

Colour-developing components, e.g. acidic compounds; Layers containing colour-developing components, additives or binders [5]

165

characterised by the use of microcapsules; Special solvents for incorporating the ingredients [5]

using electric current (B41M 5/24 takes precedence) [5]

Ablative recording, e.g. by burning marks; Spark recording [5]

Thermography (B41M 5/20, B41M 5/24 take precedence) [5]

using thermo-chromic compounds or layers containing liquid crystals, microcapsules, bleachable dyes or heat decomposable compounds, e.g. gas liberating [5]

using chemical colour formers (B41M 5/34 takes precedence; with photo-thermographic diazo compounds G03C 1/52) [5]

one component thereof being a heavy metal compound [5]

Multicolour thermography [5]

using a polymeric layer, which may be particulate and which is deformed or structurally changed with modification of its properties, e.g. of its optical, hydrophobic-hydrophilic, solubility or permeability properties [5]

based on the production of a stickiness pattern using powders; Contact transfer or sublimation processes [5]

characterised by the base, intermediate or covering layers; Heat, radiation filtering or absorbing means or layers; combined with layers or compositions suitable for other methods of image registration; Special originals for reproduction by thermography [5]

After-treatment of printed works, e.g. heating, irradiating

Dusting; Varnishing (devices for treating the surfaces of sheets, webs, or other articles in connection with printing B41F 23/00, B41L 23/00)

Processes wherein make-ready devices are used (make-ready devices per se B41N 6/00) [5]

Relief make-readies

photomechanical