Abstract: A process for filmless production of a ready-to-print printing form and for using it in an offset printing press includes exposing a printing form sensitive in an emission range of light-emitting diodes to an image in an exposure unit by means of a computer-controlled LED bar, passing the exposed printing form through a developing stage wherein the printing form is developed, and then feeding-in the printing form via a high-speed feeding-in device for printing forms, and positioning the fed-in printing form on a plate cylinder; and apparatus for performing the process.

Abstract: A method of automatically controlling deviations in the liquid ink and dampening liquid feed in an offset printing press includes irradiating a layer formed of liquid ink and ingredients of a dampening liquid deposited on a plate cylinder of the press with at least one source of radiation, selectively interposing, in the radiation path between the radiation source and the irradiated liquid layer, wave length absorption filters, selecting certain wavelengths most heavily absorbed by at least one of the liquids, comparing measured values for the ink layer and the individual ingredients of the dampening liquid with a given nominal value and, in accordance with a quantitative deviation between the measured and the nominal values, automatically actuating a control circuit for regulating the feed of the liquid ink and the dampening liquid; and a device for carrying out the foregoing method.