Method and system for determining resetting operations of a printing press
AssigneeHeidelberger Druckmaschinen AG
InventorDieter Hauck
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Abstract
A method for operating a machine (10) in the graphics industry using a computer (4), at least one job, which is processed on the machine (10), being storable in the computer (4). The method is distinguished in that the computer (4) includes a control device which determines the properties of the stored job; the control device sets up the machine (10) in accordance with the ascertained properties; and, to process the job, the control device computes necessary further data from the existing data and subsequently processes the job. Also a device for carrying out the method.
Claims24
A method for operating a graphics machine using a computer, comprising the steps of:
- storing data relating to at least one graphic job;
- operating the computer as a control device to setup the graphics machine, the graphics machine being a printing press, as a function of the data relating to the at least one graphic job;
- further operating the computer as the control device to determine properties of the at least one graphic job, as a function of the data relating to the at least one graphic job, for control of the graphics machine;
- computing further data necessary to process the at least one graphic job as a function of the data relating to the at least one graphic job and subsequently automatically processing the at least one graphic job;
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- operating the computer as the control device to determine resetting operations between the at least one graphic job and a subsequent graphic job while the at least one graphic job is still being processed by comparing the settings of the printing press required for the still running print job with the settings required for the subsequent graphic job computed from the job data and automatically controlling the determined resetting operations for the subsequent graphic job.
A computer system for operating a graphics machine, comprising:
- a computer coupled to the graphics machine;
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- a memory storing data relating to at least one graphic job, to be processed on the graphics machine;
- the computer being arranged and configured to:
- operate as a control device to setup the graphics machine, the graphics machine being a printing press, as a function of the data relating to the at least one graphic job;
- further operate as the control device to determine properties of the at least one graphic job, as a function of the data relating to the at least one graphic job, for control of the graphics machine;
- compute further data necessary to process the at least one graphic job as a function of the data relating to the at least one graphic job and subsequently automatically process the at least one graphic job;
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- operate as the control device to determine resetting operations between at least one graphic job and a subsequent graphic job while the at least one graphic job is still being processed by comparing the settings of the printing press required for the still running print job with the settings required for the subsequent graphic job computed from the job data and automatically control the determined resetting operations for the subsequent graphic job.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.