Printing machine with hybrid printing technology

US11951733B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Windmöller & Hölscher KG · DE

Inventors

• Sven Michael · Lengerich, DE
• Thomas Boosmann · Lengerich, DE
• Wolfgang Cordroch · Lengerich, DE
• Ralph Luxem · Lengerich, DE
• Jens Voelschow · Lengerich, DE
• Christian Bruns · Hamburg, DE
• Nico Schröder · Iserlohn, DE
• Martin Flaspöhler · Lengerich, DE
• Nils-Henrik Schirmeisen · Lengerich, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 4, 2020
• Grant date: Apr 9, 2024
• Expiry date: Dec 4, 2040

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G03G15/6517
• WIPO field: Textile and paper machines
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

The invention relates to a printing machine with hybrid printing technology for printing on a continuous material web. In order to create a printing machine with hybrid printing technology which is adaptable and flexible in use in the course of the current trend for digitization, the printing machine with according to the invention, hybrid printing technology for printing a continuous material web, is a printing machine with a rotating central cylinder, on the surface of which the material web is guided from a placement point to a separation point for printing; a plurality of inking units for digital printing of the material web are arranged in the region of an upper half of the central cylinder, and a plurality of inking units for flexographic printing of the material web are arranged in the region of a lower half of the central cylinder; an unwinding station is provided for unwinding the material web to be printed from a roll and a winding station is provided for winding the printed material web onto a roll, the unwinding station and the winding station being arranged on a first side of the central cylinder, with supply guide rollers for feeding the material web unwound from the …