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Method and apparatus for controlling the registration of sheets

US8301048B1 · kind B1 · utility

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12Claims

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Assignee

EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY · US

Inventors

Jan D. Boness · Bad Bramstedt, DE
Ingo Dreher · Kiel, DE
Heiko Hunold · Wattenbek, DE
Karlheinz Peter · Molfsee, DE
Stefan Schrader · Kiel, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Oct 18, 2005
Grant date	Oct 30, 2012
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Apr 17, 2027

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG03G2215/0161
WIPO fieldOptics
WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

The invention relates to a method and a device for controlling the circumferential register in a digital multi-color printing machine for printing sheets during a printing process, whereby, for each sheet, at least one register mark per color printing unit of the multi-color printing machine is produced, assigned to said sheet and defined with respect to its position, and whereby, based on the determination of the position of the register marks of a sheet, the circumferential register of at least one sheet, which follows the sheet associated with said determined register marks downstream of the printing process, is controlled. In duplex printing a sheet by recto and verso printing with the invention, register marks are applied for each side and, in order to control recto and verso printing of at least one subsequent sheet, said register marks are analyzed.

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