Abstract: A method for operating a printing machine having a positioning device with a cylinder that is adjustable into different positions along an adjustment path and cooperating with a cylinder for guiding printing material, which includes performing at least two of the following method steps of adjusting the rotational angle of the cylinder guiding the printing material into a given position; adjusting the rotational angle of the cylinder that is adjustable along the adjustment path into a given position; adjusting the circumferential register of the cylinder that is adjustable along the adjustment path; and adjusting the cylinder that is adjustable along the adjustment path, from a first cylinder position into a second cylinder position along the adjustment path.

Abstract: A device for selectively positioning at least one cylinder in a printing machine, the cylinder being rotatably mounted in a carrier and, together with the carrier, forming a unit that is adjustable into different positions, includes a pull mechanism drive for adjusting one of the cylinder and the unit into the different positions, the pull mechanism drive including a pull mechanism, the unit being held on and suspended from the pull mechanism.

Abstract: A method of controlling sheet feed to a sheet-processing machine, wherein sheets are separated from a pile, conveyed onto a table, brought individually into contact with alignment lays for leading edges of the sheets, and conveyed onward therefrom individually for processing in the machine, includes, upon misalignment of a sheet, generating a signal by ultrasonic detectors active in transmission operation, the ultrasonic detectors being fixedly disposed parallel to the alignment lays and including two ultrasonic transmitters arranged at a defined distance, and ultrasonic receivers associated therewith, maintaining over the area of a measuring window sonic energy flux originating from the ultrasonic transmitters, respectively, at a substantially constant sonic intensity in the conveying direction of the sheets, integrally detecting by the respective ultrasonic receiver the sonic energy passing through the measuring window, and simultaneously measuring a difference in the sonic energy measured by the ultrasonic