Method for carrying out a production change on a printing press with automated change of a printing plate

US7347144B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• MAN Roland Druckmaschinen AG · DE

Inventors

• Thomas Eisensteger · Augsburg, DE
• Martin Endisch · Wertingen, DE
• Peter Knauer · Munster, DE
• Josef Singler · Augsburg, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Apr 27, 2005
• Grant date: Mar 25, 2008
• Expiry date: Aug 9, 2025

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B41F33/16
• WIPO field: Textile and paper machines
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

An automated method is provided for carrying out a production change, which is specific to the printing plate, on a printing press. After a first print job is printed on a printing press, the printing of the first print job is stopped automatically after a predefined print run level has been reached or another termination criterion for the first print job has occurred. Parameters required for printing a second print job which follows the first print job are loaded automatically by the printing press. Before or after the parameters of the second print job are loaded, a printing plate change is automatically carried out on the printing press, thus achieving production readiness for the second print job. The second print job is then either started automatically, or a production readiness signal for the second print job is generated automatically.