Abstract:
A method of transferring printing ink from an intermediate carrier to a printing-ink receiver selected from the group consisting of a further intermediate carrier and a substrate, wherein the printing ink adheres either in a granular state or in an at least partially liquid state to the intermediate carrier includes, with respect to the first-mentioned state of the printing ink, melting the printing ink at a side thereof facing away from the intermediate carrier before transferring the printing ink to the printing-ink receiver and, with respect to the second-mentioned state of the printing ink, reducing the adhesion of the printing ink to the intermediate carrier with a separating agent at one time at least before and during transfer to the printing-ink receiver; and a device for performing the method.
Abstract:
An encoder device for the determination of absolute angle or linear segments is described, with which the distance from the actual to the reference position is determined upon prompting and output via incremental signals. This encoder offers new functions for the incremental measuring system employed up to now. The transition to the absolute measuring system is also made possible according to requirements.
Abstract:
Method of controlling a printing device of a printing press wherein substrates to be printed are conveyed on a conveying path to the printing device, the conveyed substrates being detected by a sensor disposed along the conveying path, upstream of the printing device, as viewed in a conveying direction of the substrate, includes starting a printing operation whenever a leading edge of a respective substrate is detected, and stopping a printing operation whenever a trailing edge of the substrate is detected.
Abstract:
Sheets of defined format lengths are printed in a sheet-fed rotary printing press with a plurality of printing units. Each of the printing units includes an impression cylinder and a counter-pressure cylinder. The two cylinders define a printing nip and the printing units are disposed such that a sheet travels through the printing nips in succession. The impression cylinders have a circumference which is no longer, and preferably shorter, than a shortest format length of the sheet. The impression cylinders are disposed such that mutually adjacent printing nips of adjacent printing units are spaced at a distance which is shorter than the shortest format length to be printed. The impression cylinders have a circumferential surface carrying a subject or motif to be printed. The images printed on printing material therefrom have an image spacing between one another. The circumference of the impression cylinder is smaller than the sum of the image length and the length of the image spacing.
Abstract:
A sheet-fed printing press includes a plurality of printing units disposed along a sheet-transport path. A transport apparatus (3, 33, 40, 50, 66, 78) is disposed along the sheet-transport path. The sheets are transported through the printing units along the sheet-transport path and, after recto-printing, they are returned along a return-transport path which extends essentially in an opposite direction to the sheet-transport path. The printing press is thus enabled to print recto-and-verso while having a very short structural length.
Abstract:
A device for holding substrates on a printing-press transport belt successively transporting the substrates closely past an impression cylinder includes at least one stripping device disposed in an exit part of a nip between the impression cylinder and the transport belt, the at least one stripping device being movable in synchronism with a printing-press cycle towards and away from the impression cylinder; and a method of operating the device.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a sheet-fed rotary printing machine comprising sheet-transfer drums disposed between the printing units. Sheet-guiding plates are assigned to the sheet-transfer drums, and the sheet-guiding plates extend over the length of a respective sheet-transfer drum. The sheet-guiding plates are disposed so that measurements may be taken on the printed sheet being moved.
Abstract:
Housing for an electrical system for controlling operations includes a housing wall, at least one connection arrangement provided at the housing wall for connecting a control circuit disposed inside the housing to circuits located outside the housing, and a base forming a unitary body with the housing, the connection arrangement including contact members forming a non-detachable part of the housing wall, the control circuit disposed inside the housing being directly connected to the contact members.
Abstract:
Method of automatically controlling and regulating a chronological sequence of operations of a printing press includes initializing in RAM of a computer a list entered from ROM and having a table of all press operation data necessary for printing, including an assignment of times for actuating actuators to position data of the printing carrier, modifying the data entered into the list in accordance with data regarding the machine status, and with respect to process values relative to a position of the printing carrier at which a performance of an operation should start, a first press operation to be performed being defined and, included in the data for every operation is the operation to be performed preceding and subsequent thereto and, upon reaching a starting position of each actual operation to be performed in accordance with actual data from the speed sensor, with the data about the machine status and with the process values, and redetermining in the computer and entering into the list the data for the position at the start of the performance of the actual operation, and the data for the operation preceding and subsequent to the actual operation, and if a shifting of the performance sequence is necessary, redetermining the data of the future preceding and subsequent operations. If the redetermined position chronologically comes after the starting position, the respective operation skipped in the performance sequence, and if the redetermined position chronologically comes before the starting position, the respective operation is performed from the starting position.
Abstract:
Method of controlling a start-up of paper travel and printing, respectively, in a printing press having an electrically operated dryer for printing products printed with ink curable by drying, the dryer being preheatable over a limited time period, includes switching-on a drive for effecting paper travel and printing, respectively, after the dryer, which has been switched on beforehand, has reached a limit value representing optimum operating conditions.