Abstract:
A method and an apparatus for changing a printing plate on a printing press, include feeding the printing plate to a withdrawal chute of a plate changing apparatus by rotating the plate cylinder backward. Drivable transport rollers grip the printing plate and pull the latter out of a previously opened clamping device for the leading edge of the printing plate during the plate cylinder rotation, without the plate cylinder having to be stopped.
Abstract:
An apparatus for transporting a printing plate to or from a plate cylinder of a printing press includes a first, driven transport roller that is stationarily disposed and a second transport roller that is disposed so as to be movable in the direction of the first transport roller. The second transport roller is mounted so as to be pivotable about a pivot axis disposed perpendicularly to its axis of rotation, preferably by a ball and socket joint or a fork bearing.
Abstract:
A device for holding a sheetlike article on a movable underlying surface for transporting the sheetlike article in at least one direction selected from the group consisting of a direction into and a direction out of an operating station having a printing unit, includes a member having a surface underlying the sheetlike article, the sheetlike article being retainable by pneumatic pressure on the surface, a screening device disposed locally fixedly with respect to an operating station, the screening device serving for reducing an airflow in a region of the printing unit at least with respect to adjacent regions, the reduction in the airflow resulting from the sheetlike article being held on the underlying surface.
Abstract:
A method for cleaning a nozzle outlet surface on a print head of an ink jet printer by a cleaning head, the ink being wiped off the nozzle outlet surface by a doctor blade on the cleaning head and being sucked away by a vacuum generator connected to the cleaning head, includes sucking the ink out of the interior of at least one nozzle on the nozzle outlet surface, by forming with the cleaning head an evacuation chamber over the opening, applying vacuum to the evacuation chamber by the vacuum generator, and hermetically sealing off the evacuation chamber; a device for performing the method; an ink jet printer having the device; an offset and/or rotary printing machine integrated with the ink jet printer; and an offset and/or rotary printing machine coupled in-line with the ink jet printer.
Abstract:
A method for cleaning a print head of an ink jet printer by a cleaning tape, which comprises sucking away printing ink from the print head by a suction device, and wiping or doctoring off the print head by the cleaning tape; a device for performing the method; an ink jet printer in combination with the device; and an offset and/or rotary printing machine in combination with the ink jet printer.
Abstract:
A method for applying toner to a substrate by a printing unit of a printing machine, a print image being applied to a carrier band (5) and passed by the latter to the substrate to be printed, e.g. paper (2), which is transported through the printing unit via a transport band (4), the paper (2) to be printed and the applied toner being cooled by means of a cooling device (8) arranged over a longer segment, and the toner applied to the paper (2) being heated before and/or during the transfer process from the intermediate carrier to the paper (2), by a heating device (7) arranged over a longer segment, and that the heating and cooling energy, respectively, to be supplied is adjustable in accordance with the desired printing speed.
Abstract:
A sheet feeder system for a sheet-fed printing press includes a device for causing a sheet pile to sag at least partly in at least an upper region thereof, and at least two contact elements disposed in mutually spaced-apart relationship on an upper side of the sheet pile and having respective contact surfaces for pressing against the upper side of the sheet pile at least partly or temporarily, at least one of the contact elements being drivable so as to move the respective contact surfaces pressing against the upper side of the sheet pile towards and away from one another, respectively, for forming an interspace between the uppermost sheet of the sheet pile and a sheet immediately therebelow, and a method for individually separating sheets.
Abstract:
A printing machine comprising a plurality of printing units (3) arranged in line one behind the other and an endless transport belt (4) for substrates to be printed, said transport belt running around, at least, two spaced-apart rollers (5, 6) and past said printing units. At least, two rollers (5, 6) are mounted on a coherent belt-carrying unit (9) from which, when being in a slack condition, said transport belt (4) may be stripped off. Furthermore, the printing machine features a drawer (24) which may be pulled out laterally and which is provided below said belt-carrying unit (9) as well as a holding device (11, 12, 13, 15, 16) holding said belt-carrying unit (9) and being switchable between, at least, two different conditions, in a first condition said holding device holding said belt-carrying unit in an operating position, and in a second condition said belt-carrying unit (9) resting loosely on said drawer (24). This permits a simple and quick belt changing.
Abstract:
Apparatus for sheet singling and alignment on a top side of a sheet pile of a rotary printing press includes a suction device extending transversely to sheet transport direction in the vicinity of the leading edge of the sheet pile, the suction device being intermittently activatable with suction air, a scanning device for controlling a lifting motion of the sheet pile, the scanning device extending across the entire width of the pile and having a member movable towards and away from the top side of the pile for scanning the height thereof, swivelable levers adjacent the pile-height scanning member, an element for laterally aligning single sheets of the sheet pile axially displaceably mounted on the swivelable levers, and a device for directing an air stream onto the leading edge of the sheet pile so as to lift off a leading-edge region of the respective single sheets from the pile.
Abstract:
Paper transport system for printing presses includes a drive roller, a deflection drum disposed in spaced relationship with the drive roller, and a conveyor belt extending around the drive roller and the deflection drum, the conveyor belt having first regions formed with engagement elements, as well as second and substantially smooth-surfaced regions, the drive roller and the deflection drum, respectively, being subdivided into axially separate, respective roller and drum segments rotatable independently of one another and surrounded by the first and the second regions of the conveyor belt, the conveyor belt being of such construction between the first regions and the second regions thereof that small relative movements are possible therebetween in a longitudinal direction of the conveyor belt.