Measurement and regulation of inking in web printing

A device for measuring the inking in web priming, the device comprising:

• a measuring bead or a plurality of measuring heads provided for measuring including performing an integrating measurement of the light remitted by a printed material web using the measuring head or the plurality of measuring heads in the direction of run of the material web;
• a sensor element for receiving light that is remitted by a running, printed web of material;
• an adding or integrating means, which is connected to a sensor element, of which there is at least one, in order to determine the intensity of the light received;
• and
• a control, which presets the duration of reception of light and/or the duration of the addition or integration by means of the adding or integrating means for an adding or integrating intensity measurement of the remitted light in the direction of run of the web.

A process comprising:

• providing a measuring head or a plurality of measuring heads;
• and
• performing an integrating measurement of the light remitted by a printed material web in the direction of run of the material web using the measuring head or a plurality of measuring heads;
• calculating set points from an image data, fanning integrals of a remission spectrum over the columns of the image and folding these with a measuring field function of a measuring head, or forming set points from the measured actual values of pages that are considered to be good;
• and
• setting an ink density in web printing by setting the ink feed or the damping agent feed.