manroland AG Patent applications |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20130113850 | Method of Printing - A method for printing on a substrate, wherein the substrate is printed upon with a plate-based printing process, particularly with an offset printing process, and with a plateless printing process, particularly with an inkjet printing process, inline with the plate-based printing process. According to the invention, a printing resolution of the plateless printing process is determined depending on a printing speed of the plate-based printing process. | 05-09-2013 |
20120145020 | DEVICE FOR REGULATING THE APPLICATION OF DAMPENING SOLUTION AND INK IN A PRINTING PRESS - A device for regulating the application of dampening solution in a printing press is disclosed. The device includes a dampening solution quantity adjustment apparatus, where a quantity of dampening solution applyable to a printing press cylinder is adjustable by the dampening solution quantity adjustment apparatus. An ink measuring device detects printing parameters of an ink applied to a printing substrate selectively and/or over an entire width of the printing substrate. A control and regulating device analyzes detected printing parameters and controls the dampening solution quantity adjustment apparatus. | 06-14-2012 |
20120097057 | PRINTING UNIT AND A PRINTING PRESS AND PRINTING ROLLER OR IMPRESSION CYLINDER OF A PRINTING PRESS - A printing unit of a printing press and a printing roller or an impression cylinder of a printing press is disclosed. The printing roller or the impression cylinder has a first and a second base element ( | 04-26-2012 |
20120033242 | PRINTING PRESS CENTRAL CONTROL UNIT - A printing press central control unit and method is disclosed. The central control unit has at least one combined display and operating unit which serves to display objects on the one hand and to enter commands and/or operators on the other hand, such that the combined display and operating unit has a multi-touch screen in combination with a display screen. | 02-09-2012 |
20120031538 | EMBOSSING DEVICE - The aim of the invention is to improve the supply of transfer foil in a coating module in which the image-forming layers of a transfer foil are transferred to a printing material. To achieve this, a partial pressing surface is located in the coating module for transferring the layers of the transfer foil. This permits targeted control of the foil feed. The transfer foil can be fed past a pressure cylinder in an approximately tangential manner and with a limited width. | 02-09-2012 |
20110308413 | RADIALLY EXTENSIBLE, SLEEVE-SHAPED PRINTING BLANKET AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SUCH A PRINTING BLANKET - A printing blanket for fastening on a printing blanket cylinder and a method for the production thereof are disclosed. The printing blanket includes at least one inner carrier layer, a first intermediate layer designed as a woven fabric layer and an outer cover layer. The woven fabric layer includes warp threads and weft threads. The printing blanket can be fastened on a printing blanket cylinder such that the warp threads extend in the axial direction of the printing blanket cylinder and the weft threads extend in the circumferential direction of the printing blanket cylinder. | 12-22-2011 |
20110290139 | OPERATION OF A COLD FOIL APPARATUS BY A PRINTING PRESS - A method of transferring a transfer foil having an image forming layer through a transfer gap of a printing press under a foil cycle timing control that is selectively changeable such that it can be turned on, turned off, or is adjustable in its frequency and period of operation as a function of operating parameters of the press. | 12-01-2011 |
20110214581 | OPERATION OF A COLD FILM UNIT WITH GLUE APPLICATION - The invention relates to a unit for cold film transfer in a printing press. In order to improve the transfer process, a control device is used to control the film transfer, said control device adjusting the color values and the coating parameters of the transferred films. | 09-08-2011 |
20110140340 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PROCESSING PRINTED PRODUCTS MADE OF MULTIPLE PAPER SHEETS AS WELL AS A PERFORATING KNIFE - A method and device for processing printed products made of multiple paper sheets is disclosed. The paper sheets are moved in the direction of a leading open edge and the paper sheets are connected to each other in a detachable manner in the region of the edge. | 06-16-2011 |
20110113978 | PRINTING DEVICE FOR A ROTATING PRINTING MACHINE - A printing couple for a rotary printing press is disclosed. The printing couple includes a base and at least one plate cylinder having a pre-determined length, two longitudinal ends rotatably mounted at the base, a radial longitudinal partition, and a peripheral surface facing outward radially in the area of the longitudinal partition and supported radially and rotatably at a bearing unit. The bearing unit includes a rotation bearing having an outer part designed in the shape of a circular segment and is connected to the base. The peripheral surface of the plate cylinder in the area of the longitudinal partition is supported at the inner curvature of the outer part. | 05-19-2011 |
20110058885 | Variable format device for cutting print substrates and folder and printing press having a device of this kind - A device for cutting print substrates, i.e., paper webs, having a cutting module which comprises a cutting device, a folder, and a printing press with a device of this kind, wherein the cutting module includes guide devices having at least a partially planar and/or movable guide area for guiding the print substrate or paper web through the cutting module. | 03-10-2011 |
20110050767 | Variable format web press - A web press, in particular a variable format book web press, variable format newspaper web press, or variable format periodical web press, has printing units ( | 03-03-2011 |
20100307354 | DUMPING UNIT FOR A PRESS - A damping unit for a press has means for applying a clamping solution to a printing form and means for setting the quantity of damping solution applied. At least one sensor is provided for registering the quantity of damping solution actually applied to the printing form. By means of a comparison with a predefined quantity of damping solution, the quantity of damping solution on the printing form can be regulated. | 12-09-2010 |
20100273623 | Folding Apparatus And Folding Method - A folding apparatus and method for a web-fed rotary press having a first folding jaw cylinder, a cross cutter by which a first web ribbon comprising a first quantity of printing stock webs is fed to the cross cutter and is cross cuttable into first print products by the cross cutter and a collection cylinder by which the first print products are subsequently cross folded by the collection cylinder and the first folding jaw cylinder. The apparatus also includes an auxiliary cross cutter which cross cuts a second web ribbon comprising a second quantity of printing stock webs into second print products. A transfer device is used to transfer the second print products produced from the second web ribbon to the collection cylinder. As a result, a first print product and a second print product are combined on the collection cylinder and are cross folded together when transferred to the first folding jaw cylinder. | 10-28-2010 |
20100269719 | Web-Fed Printing Press - A web-fed printing press having at least one printing unit for static printing of at least one printing substrate web, preferably of a plurality of printing substrate webs, with a printed image which is invariable for all printed copies, and at least one processing device positioned upstream of the folding apparatus and configured to dynamically process the at least one printing substrate web in a variable manner for at least some printed copies, and a manipulation device positioned to support the at least one processing device, where the at least one processing device is displaceable by the manipulation device in three spatial dimensions within a region of action of the manipulation device such that the at least one processing device is positionable at a freely definable position of the at least one printing substrate web with a freely definable orientation to the at least one printing substrate web. | 10-28-2010 |
20100212525 | METHOD FOR OPERATING A PRINTING PRESS - The invention relates to a method for operating a printing press, particularly a sheet-fed offset printing press, wherein at least two drives, whose positions can be controlled independently from each other, feed into a continuous gear train of the printing press. A desired torque distribution for the drives feeding into the continuous gear train is determined such that each drive provides a driving torque for the associated sub-unit of driven devices and in part for the sub-unit of driven devices associated with a drive connected downstream of the respective drive, wherein based on said torque distribution for each drive an individual angle target value is determined, which is used to control the position of each drive individually in order to provide an angular difference that is dependent on the torque distribution between the feed sites of the drives. | 08-26-2010 |
20100208281 | Method for Actuating an Inkjet Printing Device - The invention is directed to a method for controlling an inkjet printing device working according to the continuous inkjet principle so that a print image to be printed by the inkjet printing device can be positioned on a substrate. The inkjet printing device supplies ink droplets at a determined droplet generating frequency, and the position of the substrate to be imprinted relative to the inkjet printing device is monitored by means of a sensor, in particular by means of an encoder, in order to generate an actuating signal for the inkjet printing device. According to the invention, the absolute position of the substrate is monitored by means of the sensor, and when the sensor detects the start of a substrate zone to be imprinted with a relatively high printing quality, the actuating signal of the inkjet printing device for the subsequent substrate zone to be imprinted with the relatively high printing quality is coupled with the droplet generating frequency, and when the sensor detects the end of a substrate zone to be imprinted with the relatively high printing quality, the actuating signal of the inkjet printing device for the subsequent substrate zone which is not to be imprinted or is to be imprinted with a relatively low printing quality is coupled with the sensor signal. | 08-19-2010 |
20100208280 | Method for Printing A Substrate - A method for printing on a substrate, wherein the substrate is printed upon with a plate-based printing process, i.e., an offset printing process, and with a plateless printing process, i.e., an inkjet printing process, inline with the plate-based printing process. In accordance with the invention, the printing resolution of the plateless printing process is determined depending on a printing speed of the plate-based printing process. | 08-19-2010 |
20100188671 | Weighted Sheet Inspection - An image processing system for use in a sheet-fed offset printing press inspects image data in a variable manner. and provides remediation in the event of a malfunction in order to reduce misprints, thus reducing waste and associated cost inefficiency. | 07-29-2010 |
20100147169 | FOLDER SUPERSTRUCTURE OF A WEB-FED PRINTING PRESS - A folder superstructure of a web-fed printing press is disclosed. The folder superstructure having several formers positioned side by side, namely at least four formers positioned side by side laterally, where three formers are positioned such that a center former of these three formers is positioned in the center of the machine or in the center of undivided print substrate webs and the two outer formers of these three formers are positioned symmetrically to the center former. Partial webs of the print substrate webs separated by longitudinal cutting can be guided over each of these three formers with and/or without prior turning, and at least one further former is positioned laterally next to these three formers, over which partial webs of print substrate webs separated by longitudinal cutting can be guided exclusively with prior turning. | 06-17-2010 |
20100147168 | STAMPING FOIL UNIT - To transfer a coating in image form from a transfer foil to a print sheet, adhesive is applied in the form of the image to said sheet. In a foil transfer module ( | 06-17-2010 |
20100132571 | Former Arrangement - A former arrangement for processing a substrate web in a reel-fed printing press having at least three formers which are arranged adjacent to each other and transversely to a web running direction of the substrate web and at least five longitudinal slitting devices for the longitudinal slitting of the substrate web in at least two part webs which are arranged offset to each other in the web running direction in front of the at least three formers and transversely to the web running direction, wherein the at least three formers and the longitudinal slitting devices are each separately moveable transversely to the web running direction. | 06-03-2010 |
20100116160 | Printing Unit With Imprinting Device And Printing Method - A printing unit ( | 05-13-2010 |
20100107913 | Printing Unit - A printing unit of a printing press, such as a web press constructed as a periodical printing press, having at least one printing couple, wherein the printing couple or each printing couple comprises a form cylinder, a transfer cylinder, an inking unit, and preferably a dampening unit. A drive motor is associated with at least one printing couple, and drives the form cylinder or the transfer cylinder of a respective printing couple. In accordance with the invention, a flywheel mass is associated with at least one drive motor which drives the form cylinder or the transfer cylinder of the respective printing couple, where the flywheel mass is connected to the rotor of the respective drive motor in a torsionally rigid manner. | 05-06-2010 |
20100107911 | Printing Unit of a Printing Press - A printing unit of a printing press has at least one printing couple including a form cylinder, a transfer cylinder, an inking couple, and possibly a dampening unit; wherein the circumference of the transfer cylinder is a whole-number multiple of the circumference of the form cylinder; an impression cylinder cooperates with the transfer cylinder of the printing to form a nip, through which a substrate to be printed can be conveyed; and intermeshing drive gears are assigned to the form cylinder and to the transfer cylinder. The inking couple can be driven by the transfer cylinder of the printing couple by way of intermeshing drive gears in such a way that the drive connection between the transfer cylinder and the inking couple of the printing couple is independent of the drive connection between the transfer cylinder and the form cylinder. | 05-06-2010 |
20100089962 | Method and Device for the Control of a Feed Mechanism - A method for the control of a feed mechanism of a web-fed printing press, i.e., for the control of tensile stress and/or web tension of a printing material web to be taken into the printing unit by the feed mechanism, wherein thereby an actual value is compared with a desired value. According to the discrepancy between the actual value and the desired value, a control device for the tensile stress and/or the web tension produces a correcting variable for the feed mechanism. The actual value of the tensile stress and/or the web tension is determined by calculation based on a model. | 04-15-2010 |
20100043657 | Method for Operating a Damping System, Damping System, and Printing Group - A method for operating a dampening system of a printing group of a printing machine, especially a web-fed rotary printing press, the dampening system comprising a dampening means dosing device provided with a plurality of dosing units, a dampening system rolling mill drive having at least one dampening system roller, and at least one dampening means application roller. The application of the dampening means is adapted to the width of the material to be printed or to widths of the sides of the material to be printed. | 02-25-2010 |
20100018425 | METHOD FOR OPERATING A WEB-FED PRINTING PRESS - A method for starting up a web-fed printing press is disclosed. In an embodiment, the method includes: a) a first start-up sequence is executed while using predetermined preset parameters that are specific to the printing press and/or the print job for the color register adjustment, cut-off compensator control and the ink density control; b) the web-fed printing press is subsequently stopped, where copies printed during the first start-up sequence are evaluated with respect to the color register, the cut-off compensator and the ink density, and where the preset parameters are adjusted as a function of this evaluation while the printing press is stopped; c) following this, a second start-up sequence is executed, where the preset parameters that are adjusted during the standstill are not used for printing until defined printing press speeds are reached and/or exceeded. | 01-28-2010 |
20100018418 | Printing Unit In A Roll-Fed Printing Press - A printing unit for a roll-fed printing press having at least two printing mechanisms, wherein a first printing mechanism imprints a first side of a web-shaped substrate and a second printing mechanism imprints a second side of the web-shaped substrate opposite to the first side. The first printing mechanism and second printing mechanism each have a form cylinder, a transfer cylinder, an inking unit, and preferably a dampening unit. The transfer cylinders of the first printing mechanism and the second printing mechanism roll on one another while forming a printing gap for the substrate to be imprinted. A main driving motor is associated with the first printing mechanism or the second printing mechanism. A braking motor is associated with the printing mechanism with which the main driving motor is not associated. | 01-28-2010 |
20100006234 | MODULAR FILM UNIT - In order to transfer an image-type coating from a carrier film to a printed sheet, an image-type adhesive is applied to the printed sheet. In a film transfer module ( | 01-14-2010 |
20090305860 | Apparatus For Producing Longitudinally Folded Products - An apparatus for producing longitudinally folded products has a machine frame ( | 12-10-2009 |
20090295058 | SPLITTING DEVICE - A device for distributing successive products of a product flow, particularly the successive folding products produced by a cross cutting device by dividing a material web, to two branch flows, with a wedge arrangement which is arranged in a stationary manner in the transporting plane of the product flow and which engages between two cam rollers which flank it and which are arranged symmetrically with respect to the center working plane. The device is characterized in that the wedge arrangement engages between two guide plates which flank it and which, together with the wedge arrangement, define a path fork. The guide plates have slots through which they are alternately penetrated by cams of the respective adjacent cam roller which are associated with the slots, so that the penetrating cams and the guide plate which is not penetrated form a feed for a belt guide associated with a branch flow. | 12-03-2009 |
20090288915 | Method for Operating a Printing Press - A method of operating a printing press, wherein lubricated components of the printing press are lubricated with lubricant during the operation of the printing press in such a way that lubricant is taken from a reservoir via a feed line and is supplied to the component or components to be lubricated and in that the lubricant is carried away from the respective component to be lubricated in a post-feed area. Metal particles in the lubricant in the area downstream of the respective component to be lubricated are detected by means of a sensor. The state of the respective component to be lubricated is determined on the basis of this measurement and, if need be, a repair or exchange of the respective component to be lubricated is initiated. | 11-26-2009 |
20090288570 | Method For Handling Printing Plates - Exposed printing plates are bent in the area of a bending device to form a leading end and a trailing end. Each exposed and bent printing plate is grasped in the area of the bending device at the leading end or at the trailing end of the printing plate by means of a gripping bar and transferred together with the gripping bar to a transporting device. The transporting device transports the printing plate together with the gripping bar toward a printing press, where the printing plate is removed together with the gripping bar from the transporting device in the area of the printing press. While grasped by the gripping bar, the plate is transferred to a form cylinder of a printing mechanism of the printing press. | 11-26-2009 |
20090277350 | Web-Fed Printing Press - A web-fed printing press, wherein the printing couple or each printing couple comprises a form cylinder, a transfer cylinder ( | 11-12-2009 |
20090272287 | Cutting Register Control - A web-fed rotary press having a regulating device. The regulating device is a register roller capable of linear movement installed upstream of at least one drive provided as an upstream actuator, i.e., the drive of the folder lead-in rollers or of the draw rollers near the former lead-in rollers and/or of draw rollers between the slitter and the former lead-in rollers and/or of draw rollers on the full web before it reaches the slitter. | 11-05-2009 |
20090266257 | Printing Plate Handling Device - A printing plate handling device for holding a printing plate ( | 10-29-2009 |
20090221410 | Folding Superstructure in a Web-Fed Rotary Printing Press and Method for Operating the Same - A folding superstructure and to a method for operating a folding superstructure of a web-fed rotary printing press with at least one former by which one or more paper webs fed through this former are provided with a longitudinal fold. The longitudinally folded paper web is guided to folding cylinders. The folding cylinders further process the uncut paper web to form cut sheets. The still uncut paper web is actively transported by at least one transporting device. | 09-03-2009 |
20090211478 | Handling Device of a Printing Press - A handling device for handling printing plates during an automated change of printing plates on a printing unit of a printing press includes a manipulator arm and a manipulator head with a suction device mounted on its free end. The suction device includes a crossbeam and a plurality of suction sections along the length of the crossbeam. Each suction section has a pair of suction nozzles supported in floating fashion with respect to the crossbeam and a pair of stop elements mounted on the crossbeam and arranged to limit the movement of a printing plate held by respective suction nozzles with respect to the crossbeam. The stop elements are preferably held of a pair of U-profile-shaped sections fixed to the crossbeam, these sections and the stop elements having circular openings through which the suction nozzles project. | 08-27-2009 |
20090173247 | PRINTING PRESS CYLINDER - A printing press cylinder is disclosed. The cylinder includes a lock-up channel extending in an axial direction of the cylinder, where a clamping piece is accommodated in the lock-up channel to clamp a plate on a surface area of the printing press cylinder. The clamping piece includes first feed slants and second feed slants. Projections of the leading edge of a to-be-clamped plate are co-operable with the first feed slants and projections of the trailing edge of a to-be-clamped plate are co-operable with the second feed slants such that the leading edge of the to-be-clamped plate is clampable in a self-centering manner between the clamping piece and a leading channel wall of the lock-up channel and the trailing edge of the to-be-clamped plate is clampable in a self-centering manner between the clamping piece and a trailing channel wall of the lock-up channel. | 07-09-2009 |
20090114107 | PRINTING PRESS WITH A DEVICE OF CONTACTLESS MEASURED DATA ACQUISITION - A printing press is disclosed. The printing press includes at least one rotating reel changer, which receives the to-be-printed paper web as a roll, and a printing couple, which applies ink and dampening solution via the rotating cylinder rollers to the paper web, as well as a folding unit with rotating folding unit cylinders for assembling the printed paper web into the desired printed products. A transponder is arranged in at least one rotating component of the printing press and a receiver is arranged in a non-moving part of the printing press. | 05-07-2009 |
20090103965 | WEB-FED PRINTING PRESS - A web-fed printing press is disclosed. The press having at least one printing unit for printing at least one printing substrate web, and having at least one processing device for processing the at least one printing substrate web, a control device for controlling the at least one processing device, and a fastening device for arranging the at least one processing device at an arbitrary web feed position between a reel changer of the web-fed printing press and an exit of a folding unit of the web-fed printing press in such a way that the at least one processing device is able to process the printing substrate web on an upper side and/or on a lower side and/or on one or both edges of the same. | 04-23-2009 |
20090095185 | WEB-FED PRINTING PRESS - A web-fed printing press is disclosed. The press includes at least one printing-plate-based printing unit for statically printing a printing substrate web with a static printing image and at least one processing device, in particular a printing-plate-less printing device for dynamically printing at least one printing substrate web surface of a printing substrate web with a variable printed image in-line. The processing device is assigned a sensor, which automatically measures a statically printed printing substrate web and, depending upon the measurement of the printing substrate web, triggers the processing device to position the processing to be performed with the processing device in the transport direction and/or transverse to the transport direction of the printing substrate web at the desired position on the printing substrate web. The processing device is assigned an operating device to make control commands available to the processing device independent of a printing press control system. | 04-16-2009 |
20090095180 | RUBBER SLEEVE - A rubber sleeve for a printing press and a method for producing a rubber sleeve is disclosed. The rubber sleeve has a rigid support sleeve and a blanket that is wrapped around the support sleeve as well as is firmly connected to the support sleeve. The blanket has at least a two-layer structure with an inner layer embodied as a base layer and an outer layer serving as a functional layer for the printing process, where the butting edges of the blanket are connected to one another via a sealing material, which is introduced in a gap embodied between the butting edges. The sealing material is introduced in the gap embodied between the butting edges while forming a channel. | 04-16-2009 |
20090095179 | Method for cleaning printing plates - An inking unit in a printing machine having an ink dispensing system comprising an inking roller and a form cylinder carrying at least one printing form. The inking roller transfers printing ink arriving thereon to at least one printing form positioned on the form cylinder. The printing ink is transferable from a respective printing form to print sheets moved between the form cylinder and an impression cylinder. The inking roller is also adjustable relative to the form cylinder. An engagement and/or disengagement of the inking roller relative to the form cylinder and/or an engagement and/or disengagement of a print blanket cylinder or form cylinder relative to the impression cylinder is performable such that print sheets become can be imprinted with a residual ink image by residual ink remaining on the plate cylinder or print blanket cylinder in a printing ON setting with the ink supply disengaged. | 04-16-2009 |
20090090260 | FORMER ARRANGEMENT - A former arrangement for a rotary printing press is disclosed. The former arrangement includes a former arrangement module with a base element which is mountable on a stationary element of the rotary printing press. A former is connected to the base element. A first web lead device provides for guidance, on the former entry side, of a printing substrate web to be directed in the case of operation over the former. A second web lead device provides for guidance, on the former exit side, of the printing substrate web. The former rests on a cantilevered support element which is fastened with a first end to the base element and which extends cantilevered transverse to a web feed direction over the former. | 04-09-2009 |
20090086002 | METHOD FOR PRINTING A SUBSTRATE WEB - A method for printing a substrate web in a rotary printing press is disclosed. The substrate web to be printed is conveyed through a printing form-based printing unit for static printing of the substrate web with a print image that does not vary for the print copies of a printing job, such that at least one static print page is printed in the longitudinal direction of the substrate web per revolution of the form cylinder and several static print pages are printed on the substrate web across the longitudinal direction of the substrate web. In addition to static printing, the statically printed substrate web is printed dynamically with a variable print image in the area of a printing form-free printing device of the rotary printing press such that the print format of the printing form-free printing device extends in at least some sections over at least two statically printed pages. | 04-02-2009 |
20090079776 | METHOD FOR REDUCING A STRIKETHROUGH EFFECT IN INKJET PRINTING ON THIN SUBSTRATES - A method for reducing the strikethrough effect in inkjet printing on thin substrates is disclosed. The method includes determining a normal print quality; determining a normal quantity of ink which would be used for inkjet printing of a certain print image on a strikethrough-resistant substrate, based on the normal print quality; determining a minimal print quality for the print image to be printed; determining a maximal value for the strikethrough effect; reducing the normal quantity of ink to a reduced quantity of ink, so that the print image has at least the minimal print quality and the maximal value of the strikethrough effect is not exceeded. | 03-26-2009 |
20090074237 | METHOD FOR PRINTING A PRINTING SUBSTRATE - A method for printing a printing substrate is disclosed. The printing substrate is printed by a printing-plate-based printing method, in particular by an offset printing method, with a printed image that is the same for printed copies of a print job and therefore with a static printed image as well as, in addition to the printing-plate-based printing method, by a non-printing-plate-based printing method, in particular an inkjet printing method, with a printed image that is variable for the printed copies of the print job and therefore with a dynamic printed image. After the static and dynamic printing of the printing substrate, each printed copy is detected using measuring techniques and recorded at least in sections in such a manner that each printed copy is verifiable with respect to its authenticity. | 03-19-2009 |
20090071360 | METHOD FOR CONTROLLING A PROCESSING MACHINE FOR SHEET MATERIAL - The invention relates to a method for controlling a machine processing sheet material. The processing machine has at least one printing or coating group and a cylinder that is coupled to a direct drive and is decoupled mechanically from a main drive acting on a gear train of a plurality of sheet transport cylinders and that can be driven in a given way at least relative to the sheet-guiding cylinders. The cylinder having an associated inking group with an inking group roller that can be driven by the main drive and gear train. Printing contact in a contact zone of the cylinder carrying the printing form with an adjacent rubber blanket cylinder is cancelled for cleaning. The inking group roller of the inking group is separated on a drive side from the sheet transport cylinders driven by the main drive and gear train. The inking group roller is coupled on the drive side to the cylinder carrying the printing form. The inking group roller is driven according to a cleaning program stored in a selection menu for an individual cleaning period at an individual rotational speed by the direct drive. | 03-19-2009 |
20090071357 | PRINTING UNIT OF A WEB-FED ROTARY PRINTING PRESS - A printing unit of a web-fed rotary printing press with several printing couples is disclosed. Each printing couple features a transfer cylinder, a plate cylinder, an inking couple and preferably a dampening unit, where the transfer cylinder, the plate cylinder, and rollers of the inking couple and if applicable of the dampening unit of each printing couple, are coupled on the drive side via gears and jointly positioned on side walls of the printing unit. Independently driven ink fountain rollers of the inking couples together with an ink fountain as well as a film roller of the inking couples are positioned on separate side walls in such a way that, in the region of each printing couple, the ink fountain roller, the ink fountain as well as the film roller of the respective inking couple are displaceable relative to the cylinders and rollers of the printing couples. | 03-19-2009 |
20090071356 | ROTARY PRINTING PRESS - A rotary printing press is disclosed. The press includes at least one plate-free printing unit for printing a substrate web with a static print image for print copies of a print job and at least one plate-free printing unit, in particular an inkjet printing unit for printing the substrate web with a dynamic print image. The/each plate-free printing unit can be shifted from a printing position in which the substrate web can be printed by the same printing unit, into a service position in which no substrate web can be printed by the same printing unit. A device which is assigned to the service position is printable by at least one plate-free printing unit that is shifted into the service position, such that the printing parameters of the same can be verified and adapted to subsequent printing of the substrate web in the printing position. | 03-19-2009 |
20090071355 | PRINTING UNIT OF A WEB-FED ROTARY PRINTING PRESS - A printing unit of a web-fed rotary printing press with several printing couples is disclosed. Each printing couple features a transfer cylinder, a plate cylinder, an inking couple and preferably a dampening unit, where the transfer cylinder and the plate cylinder of each printing couple are positioned jointly on side walls of a frame of the printing unit, and where the printing unit is aligned in the web-fed rotary printing press via bearing devices which engage on the frame of the printing unit. Rollers of the inking couples and/or dampening units of the printing couples are positioned on separate supporting walls such that the supporting walls are displaceable with respect to the side walls on which the transfer cylinders and plate cylinders of the printing couples are positioned, in order to facilitate access to the cylinders and the rollers of the printing couples. | 03-19-2009 |
20090057362 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR WEBBING-UP A PRINTING SUBSTRATE WEB OR A PARTIAL WEB IN A WEB-FED ROTARY PRINTING PRESS - An apparatus and method for webbing-up a printing substrate web or a partial web in the regions of a web-fed rotary printing press without an automatic webbing-up device, is disclosed. A webbing-up aid includes a threading tip for manually threading the webbing-up aid along a web path being webbed-up, a clamping piece for clamping one end of the printing substrate web or partial web being webbed-up, and a cable-like connecting element positioned between the threading tip and the clamping piece. The clamping piece includes two magnetic clamping sections that can be pivoted relative to each other, between which the end of the printing substrate web or the partial web being webbed-up can be clamped. The threading tip is also embodied to be magnetic so that when the webbing-up aid is being threaded, the threading tip can be can be placed on metallic or metallized web guide elements. | 03-05-2009 |
20090056864 | SHEET-FED ROTARY PRINTING PRESS AND EMBOSSING METHOD - A method that combines a cold film transfer method with an inline embossing apparatus within a sheet-fed printing press is provided. The method includes the step of applying an adhesive coating to image areas on a printed sheet using an application mechanism. The printed sheet with the adhesive is conducted to a coating module. Image-forming layers are transferred from a transfer film that is guided through a transfer nip defined by an impression cylinder and a pressing roller in the coating module. The transfer film is guided through the transfer nip in such a way that a side of the transfer film coated with an image forming layer lies on the printed sheet guided on the impression cylinder and is guided together with the printed sheet under pressure through the transfer nip. The image-forming layer adheres in the image areas provided with adhesive on the printed sheet and is lifted from the carrier film. The printing sheet is mechanically shaped by embossing in the coating module simultaneously with the transfer of the image-forming layer onto the printed sheet in the transfer nip of the coating module. | 03-05-2009 |
20090056572 | TURNER BAR ASSEMBLY OF A WEB-FED PRINTING PRESS - A turner bar assembly of a web-fed printing press is disclosed. The turner bar assembly includes at least one turner bar, which is mounted so that it is translatorily movable on a linear guide and can be acted upon with blast air. The blast air flows through the linear guide in such a way that the blast air can be conveyed to the respective turner bar via the linear guide. | 03-05-2009 |
20090050005 | WEBBING A SUBSTRATE WEB INTO A WEB-FED ROTARY PRINTING PRESS - An apparatus and method for webbing a substrate web into a web-fed rotary printing press is disclosed. A webbing apron has a first connecting section, which can be connected to a longitudinal end of the substrate web, and has a second connecting section, which can be connected to a webbing arrangement for the substrate web of the printing press. The webbing apron includes at least two webbing apron elements, each of which is assigned to one of at least two partial substrate webs of the substrate web for webbing the same, and has a connecting device, which connects the webbing apron elements to one another in such a way that the webbing apron elements can be separated from one another by a predetermined tensile force acting on the connecting device and resulting from a relative movement of the partial substrate webs relative to one another. | 02-26-2009 |
20090050004 | METHOD FOR OPERATING A ROTARY PRINTING PRESS - A method for operating a rotary printing press is disclosed. The printing press having multiple printing units for printing at least one substrate web, a folder superstructure downstream from the printing units, having at least one former for lengthwise folding of the/each substrate web and/or partial webs of the/each substrate web, and having a folder downstream from the folder superstructure for separating copies and for forming at least one lengthwise fold and/or cross fold on the separated copies. Modules of the folder superstructure serving at least to process the/each substrate web and/or partial web are essentially adapted to the increase in width which occurs in printing of the/each substrate web. | 02-26-2009 |
20090025586 | WEB-FED ROTARY PRINTING PRESS - A web-fed rotary printing press is disclosed. The printing press having several printing units and having a folding unit, and a turner bar nest and folding superstructure positioned between the printing units and the folding unit, in which at least one printing substrate web can be separated into partial webs and/or the or each printing substrate web or the or each partial web can be conveyed via turner bars and/or guide rollers to at least one former. At least one guide roller is respectively positioned along the transport path of the or each printing substrate web and/or the or each partial web through the turner bar nest and the folder superstructure, whose two ends are each assigned an adjusting unit, via which the respective end of the respective guide roller can be displaced linearly in and/or opposite from the running direction of the respective printing substrate web or partial web. | 01-29-2009 |
20090013890 | HANDLING DEVICE OF A PRINTING PRESS - A handling device of a printing press, in particular for handling printing plates during an automated printing plate change on a printing unit of a printing press, is disclosed. The handling device has a manipulator arm, where one end of the manipulator arm is assigned a manipulator head, which features a handling element, in particular a holding element for printing plates, and the manipulator arm is embodied in a multi-part manner of several segments. A swivel axis is embodied on each end of each segment, around which at least the respective segment can be swiveled, and each swivel axis is assigned a separate drive for providing the respective swivel movement. The other end of the manipulator arm is mounted so it is translatorily and rotationally movable on a traverse or on a frame or on a wall of the printing press. | 01-15-2009 |
20090008873 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DRIVING A FAN WHEEL - A method and an apparatus for driving a fan wheel of a web-fed printing press is disclosed. The fan wheel is driven, at least in a predetermined time period (t | 01-08-2009 |
20090007806 | FUNCTIONAL UNIT FOR A ROTARY PRINTING PRESS AND ROTARY PRINTING PRESS WITH SUCH A FUNCTIONAL UNIT - A functional unit for a rotary printing press and a rotary printing press having such a functional unit is disclosed. The functional unit has an assembly unit to receive at least one component of the functional unit, in which the assembly unit has at least one assembly section, at least one assembly opening that is formed in the assembly section and in which the at least one component is received, and a support section on which a weight load is supportable. A component-free opening that in one cross-sectional dimension is at least as large as one cross-sectional dimension of the assembly opening is provided in the assembly section between the support section and the at least one assembly opening. Pre-stresses induced by the weight load on a bearing element are thereby inexpensively reduced or avoided for the component. | 01-08-2009 |
20090000502 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR BLANKET WASH-UP OF A PRINTING COUPLE OF A ROTARY PRINTING PRESS - A method and device for blanket wash-up in the case of a printing couple of a rotary printing press, is disclosed. In order to wash up blankets, blanket plates or blanket sleeves on blanket printing cylinders in a time-saving and cost-effective manner by a blanket wash-up device, during delivery wash-up with paper, a separation of the paper web speed from the circumferential speed of the blanket printing cylinder is realized. As a result, it is possible to realize a high rotational speed of the blanket printing cylinder and therefore a high relative speed at the wash-up location with high water usage while only small amounts of paper are used. | 01-01-2009 |
20090000500 | PRINTING PRESS CENTRAL CONTROL CONSOLE - A printing press central control console of a web-fed printing press is disclosed. An operator console includes several operating elements for ink-zone adjusting elements of inking couples. Two groups of operating elements are positioned on one side of the row of operating elements for the ink-zone adjusting elements. A further group of operating elements is positioned next to the first group of operating elements at the distance of the widest newspaper printing format. The three groups of operating elements extend perpendicular to the row of operating elements for the ink-zone adjusting elements. The total number of operating elements in the row is designed for a commercial web printing format, and the number of operating elements in the row, which is arranged between two of the groups of operating elements, is designed for a newspaper printing format, which features a fraction of the axial width of the commercial web printing format. | 01-01-2009 |
20080295716 | PRINTING UNIT OF A PRINTING PRESS - A printing unit with at least one plate cylinder and a set-up device, which can be moved from a rest position to the plate cylinder, is disclosed. In order to make good accessibility to the printing couples and to the set-up device possible, the set-up device is arranged in a frame, which can be moved perpendicularly to the axis of rotation of the plate cylinder. | 12-04-2008 |
20080295714 | ROTARY PRINTING PRESS - A rotary printing press, which has a printing tower with a first printing unit, which is arranged on a support base, and a second printing unit, which is arranged above the first printing unit, and a substructure arrangement, is disclosed. The substructure arrangement supports the second printing unit so that the weight of the second printing unit bears on the substructure arrangement. | 12-04-2008 |
20080295631 | DRIVEN COMPONENT OF A PRINTING PRESS - A driven component, in particular a printing couple or folding unit, of a printing press, having several rotating elements, in particular cylinders or rollers, wherein at least two rotating elements are assigned to intermeshing drive gears, is disclosed. The drive gear of a first rotating element, which meshes with the drive gear of a second rotating element, is assigned a co-rotating gear, which is connected to the drive gear of the first rotating element via at least one spring element or bending element, which extends in the axial direction of the first rotating element. The co-rotating gear can be rotated with respect to the drive gear in such a way in the circumferential direction that a meshing between the two intermeshing drive gears that is affected in principle by backlash can be kept free of backlash. | 12-04-2008 |