Abstract: The problem to be solved by this invention is a conventional printing web position adjusting apparatus poses a problem in which angularly displacing means having excellent accuracy is difficult to install, large power is needed, fabrication cost is high, an adjustment result cannot be detected since a side edge position is detected on an inlet side of the apparatus and space saving cannot be achieved. A printing web position adjusting apparatus for adjusting a side edge position of printing web to a previously,determined position based on an output signal of an edge sensor provided on a downstream side of the apparatus by angularly displacing integrally two of guide bars provided between two guide rollers orthogonal to a travelling direction of printing web and in parallel with each other and respectively having different angular displacement centers arranged such that printing web is made to wrap over substantially 180 degree of peripheral faces thereof while maintaining parallelism therebetween.

Abstract: An automatic paper-web splicing system rotates a new paper roll being spliced, causes the peripheral speed thereof to agree with the traveling speed of a traveling web, and splices the start end of the new paper roll to the traveling web. The automatic paper-web splicing system directly detects via a detection mark provided on the outer peripheral surface of a new paper roll being spliced to a traveling web that the outer peripheral surface of the new paper roll is moved by a predetermined length by the rotation of the new paper roll, causes the time required for the new paper roll to move to agree with the time required for the traveling web to travel over the predetermined length, thereby causing the peripheral speed of the new paper roll to agree with the traveling speed of the traveling web, and carries out automatic splicing in this state.

Abstract: An automatic register control system for multi-color rotary presses having adjusting means for adjusting the phase on a plate cylinder of each printing section, comprising a registering error detecting device that reads register marks each printed on a traveling paper web by each printing section with a CCD camera as image data, corrects the image data using inherent correcting means, and detects the characteristic points of the register marks as their coordinates to detect a deviation between the actual coordinates of the detected characteristic points and the desired coordinates thereof, and adjusting signal output means for outputting an adjusting signal to the adjusting means to adjust the phase of the plate cylinder in each printing section on the basis of the deviation detected by the registering error detecting device, thereby automatically adjusting registering errors in the multi-color rotary press.

Abstract: A dampening system for planographic printing presses having a roller means for feeding dampening solution injected by a nozzle means onto the surface of a plate cylinder comprises a motor for moving the nozzle means, a nozzle position signal output means for outputting the present position of the nozzle means, a moving position setting means for setting moving position to which the nozzle means is to be moved, and a data select signal output means for outputting an access signal in accordance with the operating speed of the printing press, and controls the distance between the roller means and the nozzle means in accordance with the operating speed of the printing press.

Abstract: An abnormality detector for nozzle-type dampening systems in offset printers, for injecting dampening solution through nozzles onto a receiving part by intermittently opening nozzles with nozzle opening signals generated by a nozzle operation controller, which detects the abnormal injection of dampening solution through the dampening system nozzles is disclosed.

Abstract: A device for counting objects being transported by transport equipment includesa light projector for projecting a light beam onto the objects being transported,a light receptor for receiving the light beam reflected from the objects being transported and focusing the beam to a point, anda pulse generating means for generating pulses in accordance with the abrupt shift of the focused point of the reflected light beam caused by the ends of the objects being transported.The objects being transported are counted on the basis of the pulses generated by the pulse generating means.

Abstract: A production process control system for a news printing system using rotary presses comprising a press control subsystem, a sorting and delivery control subsystem, at least any one of a printing plate transportation control subsystem, a newsprint roll storage control subsystem, a mailroom materials supply control supply control subsystem and a truck yard bundle sorting control subsystem, and a production process control system for supervising and controlling each of said control subsystems. The stations provided in the production process control system and the control subsystems are linked with each other via a ring-like data highway network. Each of the stations are equipped with a processor or an intelligent input/output control unit, so that each of the production process control systems and the control subsystems can execute necessary data processing while communicating with each other.

Abstract: An address label preparation processing system for printed matter dispatching, having counter/stackers for preparing printed matter bundles upon receipt of the data on the number of copies per bundle from an address label processing devices, having an address label printing function, for printing on-line address labels for the bundles prepared, and attaching the printed address labels on the bundles as the bundles prepared by the counter/stacker and transported by a conveyor arrive at the system, and characterized in that each of the address label processing devices incorporates therein type fonts and a character enlarging function and has such a construction that address labels can be printed on the basis of the address printing data transmitted from a host computer; the host computer performing control so that the address printing data and the data on the number of copies are allocated sequentially among each of the address label processing devices; the counter/stacker receiving the number of copies per bun