Intaglio printing press

An intaglio printing press, comprising:

• an intaglio plate cylinder supported rotatably;
• at least one inking unit which supplies ink to the intaglio plate cylinder;
• an ink removing unit which removes surplus ink of the ink supplied to the intaglio plate cylinder;
• an ink recycling unit provided upstream of the ink removing unit with respect to a rotation direction of the intaglio plate cylinder and downstream of the inking unit, and adapted to remove ink before the ink is removed by the ink removing unit and return the removed ink to the inking unit, the ink recycling unit including,
• precedence ink removing means which removes the ink from the intaglio plate cylinder, the precedence ink removing means including a pre-wiping pattern roller in contact with the intaglio plate cylinder, an ink transfer roller which transfers the ink on the pre-wiping pattern roller, and ink scraping means which scrapes the ink on the ink transfer roller, and
• ink returning means which returns the ink removed by the precedence ink removing means to the inking unit;
• a recovery blade supported to be movable and discharges the ink on the ink scraping means;
• a recovery box which recovers the ink discharged by the recovery blade;
• and
• a cutter which blocks a flow of the ink scraped by the scraping means and is provided upstream of the recovery blade in a direction of the ink flow.

An intaglio printing press, comprising:

• an intaglio plate cylinder supported rotatably;
• at least one inking unit which supplies ink to the intaglio plate cylinder;
• an ink removing unit which removes surplus ink of the ink supplied to the intaglio plate cylinder;
• and
• an ink recycling unit provided upstream of the ink removing unit with respect to a rotation direction of the intaglio plate cylinder and downstream of the inking unit, and adapted to remove ink before the ink is removed by the ink removing unit and return the removed ink to the inking unit, the ink recycling unit including,
• precedence ink removing means which removes the ink from the intaglio plate cylinder, and
• ink returning means which returns the ink removed by the precedence ink removing means to the inking unit,
• wherein the inking units have a plurality of ink supplying pattern rollers in contact with the intaglio plate cylinder and have different supply patterned portions, respectively,
• the precedence ink removing means has a pre-wiping pattern roller in contact with the intaglio plate cylinder, and
• the pre-wiping pattern roller has at least one recovery patterned portion that is approximately the same as the supplying patterned portion of one of the ink supplying pattern rollers among the plurality of the ink supplying pattern rollers.