A food imprinting system including at least one imprint block, and a mounting plate having at least one opening dimensioned for receiving at least a forward portion including a printing face of the imprint block, wherein the imprint block and the mounting plate are mounted within an imprinting assembly.

A food imprinting system including at least one imprint block, and a mounting plate having at least one opening dimensioned for receiving at least a forward portion including a printing face of the imprint block, wherein the imprint block and the mounting plate are mounted within an imprinting assembly.

An image forming apparatus includes a printing section and an unleveling section. The printing section forms an image on a sheet-like medium based on image data indicating a color component corresponding to a coordinate indicating a position on the medium. The unleveling section has a protrusion capable of abutting against the medium, and forms at least either a convex portion or a concave portion on the medium by enabling the protrusion to abut against or move away from the medium on which the printing section forms an image, the convex or concave portion formed based on height data indicating a height of each coordinate indicating the position on the medium.

A flexible installation for producing at least two types of coins. In particular, the different coin types have a different number of round blank parts and/or have round blank parts made of different materials. The type and number of work steps necessary to produce the coins of the coin type in question differ between the different coin types. The installation has a number of stations, in which a round blank part is supplied and/or output and/or processed and/or measured and/or tested. At least one transporting device acts to transport the at least one round blank part between the stations. Preferably, two transporting devices are present, which can be controlled independently of each other and cooperate via a transfer station for the at least one round blank part. A control device controls the at least one transporting device and the stations depending on the coin type to be produced.

A food imprinting system including at least one imprint block, and a mounting plate having at least one opening dimensioned for receiving at least a forward portion including a printing face of the imprint block, wherein the imprint block and the mounting plate are mounted within an imprinting assembly.

A hot stamping roller, the roller being designed to cooperate with an object to be decorated, the roller comprising at least a first roller part and a second roller part, each roller part being configured to rotate around a longitudinal axis of the roller, the rotation of the first roller part being independent of the rotation of the second roller part.

Embossing methods and systems include a substrate (e.g., a sheet of paper or other material) delivered through a rendering device (e.g., a printer). An array of time-delayed pins can be driven into the substrate as the substrate travels through an in-line path provided by the rendering device to produce a latent embossed image composed of a combination of shapes depressed in the substrate. An ATA (Acoustic Transfer Assist) system can transfer an image to the substrate. The substrate with the latent embossed image is then transferred to the ATA system and the substrate is rendered with an embossed image based on the latent embossed image.

A method of marking a fiber-based product includes providing a heat stamp apparatus including a heating element thermally coupled to a stamping block and a temperature sensor thermally coupled to the stamping block. The system further includes a platen bearing an embossed pattern. Marking is accomplished by heating the stamping element to a predetermined temperature via the heating element and information acquired from the temperature sensor, then bringing the embossed pattern in relation to the surface of the fiber-based product (e.g., via direct contact and compression or simply very close to the surface) to form at least one of a corresponding three-dimensional contour and charred surface region.

A hot stamping roller, the roller being designed to cooperate with an object to be decorated, the roller comprising at least a first roller part and a second roller part, each roller part being configured to rotate around a longitudinal axis of the roller, the rotation of the first roller part being independent of the rotation of the second roller part.