IPC Main Group
B41M 1/00 Inking and printing with a printer's forme
Introduced: September 1968
Last revised: January 2006
Classification Context
- Section:
- PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- Class:
- PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
- Subclass:
- PRINTING, DUPLICATING, MARKING, OR COPYING PROCESSES; COLOUR PRINTING
10 direct subcodes
Child Classifications
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- B41M 1/02 Letterpress printing, e.g. book printing
- B41M 1/06 Lithographic printing
- B41M 1/1 Intaglio printing
- B41M 1/12 Stencil printing; Silk-screen printing
- B41M 1/14 Multicolour printing
- B41M 1/22 Metallic printing; Printing with powdered inks
- B41M 1/24 combined with embossing
- B41M 1/26 Printing on other surfaces than ordinary paper
- B41M 1/4 Printing on bodies of particular shapes
- B41M 1/42 Printing without contact between forme and surface to be printed, e.g. by using electrostatic fields
Top Applicants
Top 10 applicants by patent filingsfor class B41, 2013–2023, worldwide · Source: EPO PATSTAT
- SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION 14,672
- CANON 14,153
- RICOH COMPANY 8,049
- SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION JP 8,044
- HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY US 7,312
- BROTHER INDUSTRIES 6,887
- KYOCERA DOCUMENT SOLUTIONS 5,463
- CANON JP 5,001
- KONICA MINOLTA CORPORATION 4,512
- BROTHER INDUSTRIES JP 3,681