Printing press and method of operating a printing press, and printing press system and method of operating the printing press system

US8205553B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• KOENIG & BAUER AG · DE

Inventors

• Peter Benz · Goldach, CH
• Günther Oskar Eckert · Zellingen, DE
• Bernd Kurt Masuch · Kronach, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Feb 27, 2009
• Grant date: Jun 26, 2012
• Expiry date: Dec 10, 2030

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B41F23/0406
• WIPO field: Textile and paper machines
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A printing press is comprised of at least one dry offset printing unit. At least two different webs can be fed through the dry offset printing unit. In a first production mode “C” of the printing press, a first web is fed through the dry offset printing unit without a subsequent drying process. In a second production mode “H” of the printing press, a second web is fed through the dry offset printing unit and through an active dryer. In both the first and second production modes “C”, “H”, an inking unit of the printing unit is filled with the same ink.