Patent ID: 8919247

Claim:
Device enabling printing by transfer of an image onto a plurality of cylindrical printing mediums where a circumference of at least a first of the plurality of cylindrical printing mediums varies from a circumference of a second of the plurality of cylindrical printing mediums, and where each of the plurality of cylindrical printing mediums has a lateral face, the device comprising: a magazine which bears the plurality of cylindrical printing mediums; at least one offset blanket which is driven adjacent the magazine bearing the plurality of cylindrical printing mediums; a processor which adjusts dimensions of an image to be applied onto the at least one offset blanket to correspond with the circumference of the respective first and second cylindrical printing mediums of the plurality of cylindrical printing mediums; and at least one printing head which applies the adjusted images by projection of ink onto the at least one offset blanket; wherein each adjusted image applied by the at least one printing head onto the at least one offset blanket is transferred from the at least one offset blanket onto the respective cylindrical printing medium by contact of the at least one offset blanket with said respective cylindrical medium, the adjusted image transferred from the at least one offset blanket has a leading end and a trailing end and is applied on at least a portion of the lateral face of the respective cylindrical printing medium, wherein each adjusted image transferred from the at least one offset blanket onto the respective cylindrical printing medium has dimensions that vary in accordance with the circumference of the respective cylindrical printing medium so that the adjusted image transferred from the at least one offset blanket onto the respective cylindrical printing medium covers the entire circumference of at least a portion of the lateral face of the respective cylindrical printing medium without one portion of the image transferred overlapping onto another portion of the adjusted image transferred onto the respective cylindrical printing medium and without gaps forming between the leading and trailing ends of the adjusted image transferred onto the respective cylindrical printing medium, thereby enabling the adjusted image transferred to be uninterrupted at the leading and trailing ends about the entire perimeter of at least a portion of the respective cylindrical printing medium and without image interference caused by layering of the leading and trailing ends.