Rotary printing press with cleaning unit and method for cleaning a substrate
AssigneeBobst Bielefeld GmbH
InventorsFrank RUDOLPH, Marco CARRARA
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Abstract
The invention relates to a rotary printing press (10) for printing substrates (18), comprising a substrate transport system (12) which comprises a winder station (14) and an unwinder station (16) configured to transport a substrate (18) during a printing process along a printing handling path (19) from the unwinder station (16) to the winder station (14), wherein the rotary printing press (10) further comprises at least one cleaning unit (46) which is assigned to the printing handling path (19) and adapted to remove ink from the front side of the substrate (18). Further, the invention relates to a method for cleaning a substrate (18).
Claims13
A rotary printing press for printing substrates, the rotary printing press comprising:
- a substrate transport system which comprises a winder station and an unwinder station configured to transport a substrate during a printing process along a printing handling path from the unwinder station to the winder station,
- at least one printing unit arranged between the winder station and the unwinder station and configured to apply an ink to a front side of the substrate being moved through the printing unit along the printing handling path, and
- a control unit which is connected to the substrate transport system, wherein said control unit is configured to control a speed of the substrate which is moved through the substrate transport system along the printing handling path,
- characterized in that the rotary printing press further comprises at least one cleaning unit which is assigned to the printing handling path and adapted to remove ink from the front side of the substrate.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.