Abstract: A drive for and a method of driving of a multi-color rotary sheet printing press with a row of printing units comprising more than six printing units and including feed and delivery units and intermediate printing units, wherein all printing units are connected with each other by gear trains, two adjacent intermediate printing units are driven with different torques, and every other intermediate printing unit in a row of intermediate printing units that follows the two adjacent intermediate printing units, is driven with torque that differs from at least one of the two different torques applied to the two adjacent intermediate printing units.

Abstract: A drive for a printing machine with a plurality of printing mechanisms has a closed gear train arranged to connect the printing mechanisms with each other, a drive train extending parallel to the gear train and elastically connected with the latter by at least two power input points, a torsion spring arranged to be located in a trunnion of each of the printing cylinders, at a drive side of the latter, a bush arranged to be mounted in the trunnion of each of the printing mechanisms, and an axially displaceable driver arranged in the bush and form-lockingly engaging the torsion spring.