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EP 0 863 001 A3 |
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EUROPEAN PATENT APPLICATION |
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Date of publication A3: |
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19.04.2000 Bulletin 2000/16 |
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Date of publication A2: |
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09.09.1998 Bulletin 1998/37 |
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Date of filing: 04.03.1998 |
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Designated Contracting States: |
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AT BE CH DE DK ES FI FR GB GR IE IT LI LU MC NL PT SE |
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Designated Extension States: |
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AL LT LV MK RO SI |
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Priority: |
05.03.1997 US 812382
27.02.1998 US 32490
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Applicant: Presstek, Inc. |
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Hudson, New Hampshire 03501 (US) |
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Inventors: |
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- Williams, Richard A.
Hampstead, New Hampshire (US)
- Ellis, Ernest W.
Harvard, Massachusetts 01451 (US)
- Lewis, Thomas E.
East Hampstead, New Hampshire 03826 (US)
- Howard, Robert
New York, New York 10022 (US)
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Representative: Hackett, Sean James |
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Marks & Clerk, Patent Attorneys, Alpha Tower, Suffolk Street Queensway
Birmingham B1 1TT
Birmingham B1 1TT (GB) |
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Lithographic printing system with reusable support surfaces and lithographic constructions
for use therewith |
(57) Lithographic printing constructions are removable from a permanent support, which
may be a metal sheet affixable (usually by clamps) to a plate cylinder, or may instead
be the permanent surface of such a cylinder. In this way, the traditional "plate"
is replaced with a thin, easily manufactured printing member, which is separated from
the support following its use.