Printing machine with an imaging device

US6631677B1 · kind B1 · utility

Assignee

• MAN Roland Druckmaschinen AG · DE

Inventors

• Hartmut Fuhrmann · Bobingen, DE
• Dirk Probian · Gersthofen, DE
• Roland Holl · Weiterstadt, DE
• Klaus-Peter Reichardt · Bad Vilbel, DE
• Karsten Wendt · Obertshausen, DE
• Thomas Weiss · Orange, US
• Albrecht Volz · Rödermark, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 16, 1998
• Grant date: Oct 14, 2003
• Expiry date: May 14, 2020

Classification

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

Abstract

A printing machine that has a plurality of form cylinders and in which an imaging device images at least two of the form cylinders. The imaging device is arranged in stationary fashion. Laser pulses are deflected onto the form cylinders by light diversion components.