Method for operating a rotary printing press and device for carrying out the method

US6101944A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG · DE

Inventors

• Gotthard Schmid · Malsch, DE
• John Sheridan Richards · Barrington, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 2, 1998
• Grant date: Aug 15, 2000
• Expiry date: Oct 2, 2018

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B41P2227/70
• WIPO field: Textile and paper machines
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A method of operating a rotary printing press, wherein, during printing with a first printing form, a second printing form is imaged. A device for implementing the method has at least one imaging apparatus associated with the printing forms.