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Belgian Inventors Develop Offset Printing Process

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- Luc Leenders and Eddie Daems, both of Mortsel, Belgium , have developed a process for offset printing.

According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process for the offset printing of a receiving medium with a functional pattern comprising in any order the steps of: applying a printing ink to a printing plate and wetting the printing plate with an aqueous fountain medium containing a solution or a dispersion containing at least one moiety having at least colouring, pH-indicating, whitening, fluorescent, phosphorescent, X-ray phosphor or conductive properties."

The inventors were issued U.S. Patent No. 7,380,500 on June 3.

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