New or Improved Method of Inking, or Applying Ink or Colour or suchlike to, the Design Rollers or Plates in Printing Machines

24,345. Scott, D., and Hindle, T. T. Oct. 27. Printing processes; inking-apparatus.-In applying colour, ink, or the like to printing- machines, especially to rotary lithographic multi-colour fabric-printing machines having a number of independent sets of ink ducts and inking-rollers, the printing-surface is first inked with a fluid ink, and subsequently with a stiffer ink. This has the effect of removing surplus ink from the finer portions of the designs while also obtaining the necessary consistency of ink on the printing-surface to produce satisfactory impressions. In the example shown the printing-cylinder B, after damping by roller C , is inked with a somewhat fluid or soft ink by the rollers D , D , supplied from a duct D, and with a stiffer ink by rollers E , E supplied from a duct E. More than two ducts may be used, and the ducts may be divided each to supply several different inks to produce a greater variety of effects.