Patent ID: 8943959
Filing Date: 2015-02-03
Classification: B41F

Abstract:
1. A process for printing a web substrate, the process comprising the steps of: providing a contact printing system for printing X colors upon a web substrate wherein X is a whole number and X>1; providing said contact printing system with X−Y printing components where Y is a whole number and 0<Y<X; providing said printing components as gravure cylinders; providing each of said gravure cylinders with a plurality of discrete print elements upon a surface thereof; associatively connecting a first plurality of said discrete print elements with an at least one channel; associatively connecting a second plurality of said discrete print elements with said at least one channel, said at least one channel extending from a position external to said respective gravure cylinder to each of said first and second plurality of discrete print elements and having a single entry point at said position external to said respective gravure cylinder and a discrete exit point at each of said first and second plurality of discrete print elements; providing at least one fluid to said at least one channel; and, fluidly communicating said at least one fluid from each of said first and second plurality of discrete print elements onto a substrate, wherein a first and second portion of said at least one channel supplies said at least one fluid to each of said first and second plurality of discrete print elements, respectively.