US 10,000,055 B2Granted

Method for operating a printing press

AssigneeHeidelberger Druckmaschinen AG

InventorStephan Ehrhardt

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Abstract

A method of operating a sheet-fed printing press includes storing various print jobs and/or associated setting values and process steps in a memory device to set up the printing press upon a job change. A computer implements or suggests settings or process steps of the printing press for a print job based on the job data of a print job and/or as a result of inputs by the operator. Before or immediately after a print job is completed, the computer generates a query requesting inputs that determine if the same print job requires further passes and if so, which passes are required and, based on the information input therein, implements only those settings on the printing press and/or initiates or suggests only those process steps that are necessary for the subsequent pass of the sheets that have already been printed.

Claims13

Dependent claims

A method of operating a sheet-fed printing press controlled by a computer, the method comprising the following steps:

storing, in a memory device of the computer, at least one print job;
implementing settings of the printing press for the at least one print job, in the computer, based on job data of the at least one print job;
printing sheets in a first pass of the at least one print job on the printing press;
after completion of the first pass of the sheets of the at least one print job, generating a query, with the computer, requiring inputs determining if the at least one print job requires any further passes of the same at least one printing job and if so which further passes are required by listing, via the computer, possible types of further printing passes of the same at least one printing job for selection;
after having input about a type of a next printing pass of the same at least one printing job, generating, by the computer, a modified job change list including only settings and process steps being necessary for the next printing pass of the same at least one printing job;
and
implementing, via the computer, settings on the printing press required for a subsequent pass of sheets of the same at least one printing job having already been printed, with the computer, in accordance with information input into the computer to control the printing press;
and
printing the sheets in the subsequent pass of the same at least one printing job on the printing press.

6 more elements

A method of operating a sheet-fed printing press controlled by a computer, the method comprising the following steps:

storing, in a memory device of the computer, at least one print job;
implementing settings of the printing press for the at least one print job, in the computer, based on job data of the at least one print job;
printing sheets in a first pass of the at least one print job on the printing press;
after completion of a first pass of the sheets of the at least one print job, generating a query, with the computer, requiring inputs determining if the at least one print job requires any further passes of the same at least one printing job and if so which further passes of the same at least one printing job are required by automatically determining, with the computer, a type of a next printing pass of the same at least one printing job from the job data;
based on the determined type, generating, by the computer, a modified job change list only including those settings and process steps being necessary for the next printing pass of the same at least one printing job;
implementing, via the computer, the settings on the printing press required for a subsequent pass of sheets of the same at least one printing job having already been printed, with the computer, in accordance with the determined type to control the printing press;
and
printing the sheets in the subsequent pass of the same at least one printing job on the printing press.

5 more elements

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 13/459,429Filed 30 Apr 2012
Priority: DE 10 2011 018 85828 Apr 2011
Published: US 2012/0272851 A11 Nov 2012
Granted: 19 Jun 2018
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification10 codes

B41F 33/16
Indicating, counting, warning, control or safety devices: programming systems for automatic control of sequence of operations
B41F 33/0009
Indicating, counting, warning, control or safety devices: central control units
B41F 33/12
Tripping devices or stop-motions: for starting or stopping the machine as a whole
G06F 3/1205
Improving or facilitating administration, e.g. print management: resulting in increased flexibility in print job configuration, e.g. job settings,…