Process for the manufacture of printed products and an arrangement for implementing this process

An apparatus for manufacturing printed products by printing on a web of paper in accordance with a predetermined page sequence for the printed product, the web being fed in a feeding direction comprising:

• a cutting device for selectively cutting the web of paper into individual sheets one of a) crosswise and b) crosswise and lengthwise, the cutting device being installed after a printing machine supplied with a paper web, the web being fed in a feeding direction;
• a continued conveying route connected to the cutting device for conveying the cut sheets for processing by a further processing device;
• a joint conveying segment of the continued conveying route for conveying the cut sheets one after another, in at least one row, to a further processing location;
• a diverter located upstream on the continued conveying route for forming two conveying routes which discharge into a downstream conveying segment of the continued conveying route;
• a first means in one of the two conveying routes for deflecting movement of the individual sheets 90.degree. relative to the feed direction;
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• a second means in the other conveying route of the two conveying routes for turning over the individual sheets with a simultaneous change in the conveying direction, wherein the two conveying routes are arranged one above another.