US 2006/0230955 A1Published application

Printing unit of a web-fed rotary press

AssigneeMAN Roland Druckmaschinen AG

InventorsStefan Albrecht, Rainer Burger, Norbert Dylla

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Abstract

A printing unit of a web-fed rotary press has a plurality of press, each press unit having a forme cylinder, a transfer, an inking unit and optionally a damping unit, and having at least one impression cylinder. Each forme cylinder rolls on the transfer cylinder of the respective press unit and each transfer cylinder rolling on an impression cylinder in a thrown-on position of the printing unit, in order to apply single-color printed images onto a printing material which is moved through between the transfer cylinders and the or each impression cylinder. The forme cylinders and/or the transfer cylinders are positioned asymmetrically.

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Dependent claims

A printing unit of a web-fed rotary press, the printing unit comprising a plurality of press units and at least one impression cylinder, each said press unit comprising:

a forme cylinder bearing a plurality of printing images next to each other in an axial direction, each said printing image corresponding to a single color printed image applied to a printing material;
and
a transfer cylinder rolling on an impression cylinder in a thrown-on position of the printing unit in order to transfer ink from the printing images on a respective said forme cylinder to a printing material moving between the transfer cylinders and the at least one impression cylinder, thereby forming printed images;
wherein the form cylinders and/or the transfer cylinders are positioned asymmetrically.

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