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US 6,631,677 B1Granted
Printing machine with an imaging device
AssigneeMAN Roland Druckmaschinen AG
InventorsHartmut Fuhrmann, Dirk Probian, Roland Höll, Klaus Peter Reichardt, Karsten Wendt, Thomas Weiss, Albrecht Völz
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Abstract
A printing machine that has a plurality of form cylinders and in which an imaging device images at least two of the form cylinders. The imaging device is arranged in stationary fashion. Laser pulses are deflected onto the form cylinders by light diversion components.
Claims20
A printing machine, comprising:
- at least two form cylinders;
- a stationary imaging device having a laser unit operative to emit laser pulses in a beam bundle along a beam path for imaging printing forms on the form cylinders;
- and light diversion means movable in the beam path for dividing the beam bundle into partial beams and selectively deflecting the laser pulses produced by the laser unit onto one of the at least two form cylinders.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.