|  | B |
SECTION B — PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING

PRINTING

|  | B41 |
PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS (reproduction or duplication of pictures or patterns by scanning and converting into electrical signals Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...H04N) [4]

|  | B41C |
PROCESSES FOR THE MANUFACTURE OR REPRODUCTION OF PRINTING SURFACES (photomechanical processes for producing printing surfaces Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...G03F; photoelectrical processes for producing printing surfaces Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...G03G)

|  | B41C 1/00 |
Forme preparation

|  | B41C 1/02 |
· | Engraving; Heads therefor (recording on record carriers, heads therefor Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...G11B) [5]

|  | B41C 1/02 |
Note(s) Attention is drawn to the title of class Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B41 and to subclass Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...H04N, in particular to the Notes following the title of that subclass and to group Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...H04N 1/00. [5]

|  | B41C 1/04 |
· · | using heads controlled by an electric information signal

|  | B41C 1/045 |
· · · | Mechanical engraving heads [5]

|  | B41C 1/05 |
· · · | Heat-generating engraving heads, e.g. laser beam, electron beam [5]

|  | B41C 1/055 |
· | Thermographic processes for producing formes (Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B41C 1/02 takes precedence) [5]

|  | B41C 1/06 |
· | Transferring (Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B41C 1/10, Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B41C 1/18 take precedence) [5]

|  | B41C 1/08 |
· | by embossing, e.g. with a typewriter (typewriters adapted therefor Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B41J 3/38)

|  | B41C 1/10 |
· | for lithographic printing; Master sheets for transferring a lithographic image to the forme (Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B41C 1/055 takes precedence; neutralising or similar differentiation treatments of lithographic printing formes Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B41N 3/08) [5]

|  | B41C 1/12 |
· | Multicolour formes

|  | B41C 1/14 |
· | for stencil printing or silk-screen printing (Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B41C 1/055 takes precedence) [5]

|  | B41C 1/16 |
· | Formes with areas rendered ink-resistant by covering with an amalgam; Printing plates for amalgam printing [5]

|  | B41C 1/18 |
· | Curved printing formes or printing cylinders

|  | B41C 3/00 |
Reproduction or duplicating of printing formes

|  | B41C 3/02 |
· | Stereotyping (casting stereotype plates Fulltext... Hierarchy... Expanded...B41D 3/00) [2]

|  | B41C 3/04 |
· | to produce rubber printing blocks

|  | B41C 3/06 |
· | to produce printing blocks from plastics

|  | B41C 3/08 |
· | Electrotyping; Application of backing layers thereon [5]