to the supply roller to thereby generate and project a fine mist of the dampening fluid from the nip toward an adjacent transfer roller application_number US 56160075 A description referring now to the drawings the invention is illustrated as embodied in a conventional lithographic printing press having a plate cylinder 10 which carries a conventional lithographic printing plate about its circumference the image areas of the plate are adapted to receive ink from the usual train of inking rollers not shown whereas the non image portions of the plate are adapted to receive ink repelling dampening fluid from a dampening mechanism 11 in normal operation the lithographic plate is moistened by the dampening device 11 during each revolution of the plate cylinder prior to receiving ink from the ink form rollers in fig1 the dampening mechanism is shown as including a form dampening or transfer roller 12 which is located so as to receive the dampening fluid from the mist generating portion of the dampener mechanism to be described and then deposit it directly on the printing plate this is for illustrative purposes only however and it shall be understood that the mist may be projected directly onto the plate or onto a roller of the inking system or any one of a series of rollers in.