Abstract: A rotating printing machine comprises several printing stations with each station having a printing form cylinder being driven directly by an asynchronous vectorial electric motor controlled by an electronic circuit for monitoring and control of the angular position at a command value that changes over time and is received from a electronic calculating station for the synchronization of the stations with one another. Each of the printing cylinders has an axle connected to the axle of the rotor of the adjacent motor and the axle of the cylinder and motor can be moved in an axial translation for the correction of lateral registration of the printing forms of the cylinder.