Printing method
AssigneeFischer & Krecke GmbH & Co.
InventorsWilfried Kolbe, Klaus Schirrich, Harald Bollhofener, Hartmut Grosse
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Abstract
A method of printing with a rotary printing press having a plurality of printing cylinders that are adapted to be adjusted on and off from a running web, wherein a length of a printed image is larger than a peripheral length of the largest one of the printing cylinders, the method comprising the steps of: subdividing the printed image into elements, and printing these elements with different printing cylinders, wherein at least one of said printing cylinders is periodically shifted off from the web, each time for at least a duration of one turn of the printing cylinder.
Claims12
A method of printing with a rotary printing press having a plurality of printing cylinders that are adapted to be adjusted on and off from a running web, wherein a length of a printed image is larger than a peripheral length of the largest one of the printing cylinders, the method comprising the steps of:
- subdividing the printed image into elements, and
- printing these elements with different printing cylinders, wherein at least one of said printing cylinders is periodically shifted off from the web, each time for at least a duration of one turn of the printing cylinder.
A rotary printing press comprising:
- a plurality of printing cylinders,
- feeding means for feeding a web to be printed,
- a shift mechanism for adjusting the printing cylinders individually on and off from said web, and
- a control unit adapted to control the shift mechanism for at least one of said plurality of cylinders such that this cylinder is periodically adjusted on and off from the web during the printing operation.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.