Abstract: A printer for printing on a print medium includes: a receptacle for taking up the print medium into a roll; a print head for printing onto the print medium during a printing process; a print roller for directing the print medium past the print head during the printing process; and a cutting device for separating a printed portion of the print medium. The cutting device includes a stationary blade, a blade that is movable against the stationary blade, and a drive motor for moving the movable blade from a rest position, into a cutting position, and back. The drive motor includes a transmission and at least one drive pin. A rotational movement of the drive motor with the transmission and the at least one drive pin is converted into a linear movement of the moving blade. A movement path of the at least one drive pin is circular or elliptical.

Abstract: A cutting device includes a guide rail opposing a platen, a printer head that prints an image and Trim marks on a sheet member, a cutter blade that performs a cutting process on the sheet member, a medium feeding mechanism that feeds the sheet member from front and back, a Trim mark detection portion that detects positions of the reference marks, and a controller that sets a cutting process position to correspond to a printing position of the image, prints the image and Trim marks while feeding the sheet member forward, detects the positions of the Trim marks with the Trim mark detection portion, and performs the cutting process with the cutter blade in the cutting process position set by the controller.

Abstract: A printing machine system includes a first printing machine which is configured as a newspaper printing machine and which has at least two first printing units that are structured as printing towers, each with a plurality of superimposed printing groups that are usable for multicolor printing. The first printing machine also includes a first folder structure which is arranged in a machine alignment of the at least two first printing units. A second printing machine has at least one second printing unit and a second folder structure. The first printing units and the at least one second printing unit are arranged in one row. The first printing units, which are configured as printing towers, differ from the at least one second printing unit in at least one of their effective printing length and a circumference of imaging printing group cylinders.

Abstract: A page of a printed product having a plurality of information fields arranged in different printed columns is provided. At least one perforated line, extending parallel to the height of the page, is generated in the page between at least two printed columns. The at least one perforated line is formed over the entire height of the page. At least one printed column, along with its at least one information field, can be completely separated from the remaining part of the page via a separation process to be performed along a single such perforated line. The perforated line to be used to execute the separation process extends through a pictogram that is situated along both sides of this perforated line. The pictogram visualizes the position of this perforated line. A longitudinal perforation device for a web-fed rotary printing press can be used to produce this page and has at least one perforating blade for generating the perforated line. The longitudinal perforation device is configured as an autonomous module.

Abstract: In order to control the cut register in multi-web operation in a web-fed press and to control the web tension in a web section, image information or measuring marks from printed webs and web tensions in different web sections are registered by sensors and supplied to a control device. To correct the cut register error of at least one web, either the speed of at least one clamping point located before the knife cylinder and/or the position of the knife cylinder and, to correct the web tension, the speed of at least one further clamping point is changed, so that the actual value of the part and/or total cut register error of at least one web and the at least one web tension arc corrected to the associated predefined set points.

Abstract: A printing system is used for printing newspapers or for job printing and includes a web-fed press, including an unreeling stand, and one or more printing units for printing a web that is unrolled from a roll at the unreeling stand. A re-rolling stand may be used to wind up the web, after it has passed through the printing units. A separating device forms a second part of the printing system and includes an unreeling stand which can receive a roll of a printed web. The printed web can be unrolled and can be directed to a subassembly from this re-rolling stand. In the subassembly, the further processing of the web can take place at a different time and place, and at a different speed than the original printing of the web.

Abstract: A method for controlling the cut register in a web-fed rotary press, includes registering an actual value measurement of a position of cut register marks on a printed material web by measuring positions of printing cut register marks on the printed material web, using the measured positions in control loops as actual values of positions of cuts for cut register control, and correcting a first set value of a cut register setting element assigned to the printing material web based on a mathematical model for an error contribution of a proportion of the path of the printing material web that is not registered by the actual value.

Abstract: An apparatus for receiving, inverting and returning sheets from and to a printer for large-sized paper, said printer being adapted to be automatically fed a web of paper from a supply of paper through an inlet (6), defined by a portion of a paper-supporting plate (7), where said printer further is adapted to print and cut sheets of said web of paper and to guide the printed sheet out thereof through a separate outlet (13), where the apparatus is adapted to receive the just printed and cut sheets from said outlet and to return said sheets to the printer in the inverted state. The apparatus comprises a rotatable first guide means (14), which in one position guides the sheet into the apparatus and in a second position guides said sheet past the apparatus.

Abstract: A process and device are provided for setting the crop mark for and/or in a print production, in which prints are continuously printed on a web. At least one printing couple for printing on a web is provided. A lengthwise cutting device cuts the web into a first web strand and at least one second web strand. A converging device is provided for converging the first web strand with at least the second web strand and/or at least one other web strand to form a bundle. A cross-cutting device cuts the bundle. A crop mark setting device is provided with at least one deflecting device for each of the web strands of the bundle. The deflecting devices form a deflection axis for the web strand of the bundle, the web strand being associated with it. The deflecting device is mounted movably such that the particular deflection axis formed is adjustable at right angles to an axial direction by a maximum adjusting path length.

Abstract: The process is based on printing, in an electronic printing machine, the various bodies of text of the pages with symmetrical distribution with respect to the center of symmetry of the sheet being printed and likewise symmetrically with respect to one or both axes of symmetry of the initial sheet which pass through the center of symmetry thereof and which are parallel with its outer edges, the extent of the body of text varying for each page in accordance with the dimensions provided therefor and the sheet receiving the print subsequently being reversed in order to print the bodies of text corresponding to the reverse faces of the printed sheets.

Abstract: A newspaper producing method can produce a plurality kinds of newspapers different in page numbers and colors by using a single printing unit. This method includes a plurality of printing cycles, each of which produces a plurality of lateral printed rows on each side of a continuous web, with each row having different contents relative to each other, with each row having at least two printed segments in a width direction of the continuous web, and with rows on opposite sides of the continuous web corresponding to each other. This printed continuous web is cut with respect to each of the lateral printed rows and each two-page spread of newspaper, and these cut portions are set and are delivered for every printing cycle. Each set of these portions is folded at a longitudinal central portion of a two-page spread thereof.

Abstract: A device for guiding sheet-like copies which are severed from a material web in a cutting nip of a cutting-cylinder pair, including a copy guide disposed in an outlet wedge of the cutting-cylinder pair for gripping leading ends of the sheet-like copies for guiding the copies, the copy guide including revolving transport elements, and actuating drives for displacing the revolving transport elements in a lateral direction so as to adapt the transport elements to different positions and widths of material webs.

Abstract: A printing press with crop mark setting device and process is provided. A printing couple for printing on a web is used with a lengthwise cutting device for cutting the printed web lengthwise into a first web strand and at least one second web strand. A convergence device converges the web strands or for converging the web strands with at least one other web strand each to provide one or more converged web strands, the convergence device including a turning bar device. A cross-cutting device cross-cuts the converged web strands. A crop mark sets a crop mark of the web strands that is related to the cross cutting. The crop mark setting device has a first deflecting device for deflecting the first web strand around a first deflection axis and a second deflecting device for deflecting the second web strand around a second deflection axis.

Abstract: Sheets or strips of printed materials, with each sheet or strip having a printed image including plural individual copies, are inspected. Each copy is inspected by an inspection device. The sheets or strips of printed materials are separated into individual ones of the copies. Defective copies are sorted out based on the results of the inspection device.

Abstract: In a rotary press, a first press roller adapted to retreat during printing and advance during plate changing to contact a web is provided on a travel route of the web between a printing unit and a dryer. A second press roller having the same function as the first press roller is provided on the travel route of the web between air infeed unit and the printing unit. A web presser for pinching the web is provided on the travel route of the web between the infeed unit and the second press roller. With the web being pinched by the web presser, the first press roller and the second press roller can be moved by the web in a retreating direction. After plate changing is completed, the press rollers can smoothly ascend regardless of their pressure, and can promptly and smoothly return to the state before plate changing.

Abstract: A kiosk printer for unattended operation is equipped with a presenter to prevent a user from prematurely trying to remove a printed document. The presenter has motor driven feed rollers and a document sensor for determining when the printing document is in the presenter document path. The presenter has a home position adjacent to the printer document exit path. When printing starts, the document enters the presenter feed rollers and is sensed by a document sensor. A drive motor moves the presenter at the same rate as the printing document. When the presenter reaches a feed position it stops and the document sags and forms a document loop as printing continues. When printing stops, the presenter feed rollers feed the document from the kiosk to a user. When the printed document has exited the presenter, the presenter returns to the home position awaiting succeeding printed document.

Abstract: A folder system includes an adjustable-lap folder for folding signatures so-as to define folded signatures, an optical sensor for measuring a presence of the fold&ed signatures, and a controller connected to the rotary blade folder and the optical sensor for determining a lap of the folded signatures. Also provided is a method for folding signatures comprising folding signatures in a folder so as to define folded signatures, and measuring with an optical sensor the edges of the folded signatures so as to determine a lap.

Abstract: The present invention is intended to automatically adjust cutting and printing registers based on the detection of predetermined marks for different colors in a rotary press using a paper web, thereby eliminating the need for skill of an operator and reducing time for adjusting cutting registers. A driving reference setting section, a feedback signal output section, a mark detecting section and a register correction value output section are provided and a control section for controlling the driving section of the printing mechanism effects control so that the driving reference phase is synchronized with the feedback phase of the a plate cylinder driven by each driving means.

Abstract: The tension in a moving web of material is measuring using a measuring roller or cylinder. This tension is repeatedly compared to a threshold value. If the measured value deviates from the threshold value beyond a certain amount, this is used as an indication of web tear or breakage.

Abstract: A perforating tool for perforating single or multiple layer material webs or sheets (1) that are separated therefrom, including a first half (16) and a second half (17). In a first half (16), a multiplicity of perforating teeth (15) is accommodated; in the first half is also located a tool-free gap (18). In the second half (17) of the perforating tool (15) is a cutting zone (19) as well as groups (22) of perforating elements that are configured in alternating sequential fashion, which are angled with respect to the perforating tool.

Abstract: Several printing units are arranged in a row for printing on as many separate webs traveling in centerline alignment and in phase with one another. At least one preselected web, on issuing from one printing unit, is directed over an angled guide rod thereby to be turned 90 degrees out of phase with the other, unselected webs. Subsequently traveling over a triangular shaped former, the preselected web is folded along a centerline thereof, back into phase with the unselected webs. The preselected web, already formed, and the unselected ones, yet unfolded, are then all superposed one upon another, with the fold of the preselected web in register with the aligned centerline of the unselected webs. The superposed webs are then folded by another former along the aligned centerline of the unselected webs. Subsequently fed into a cutting and folding device, the webs are cut and folded transversely into individual multiple-page signatures each having one center spread in addition to the usual inmost center spread.

Abstract: A web of paper is printed with selective non-variable information and vastly different variable information on portions of the paper web which are ultimately separated into discrete documents. At least one ion deposition print unit and a number of flexographic print units are utilized, as well as a data source containing at least the variable information, and first and second computers. Data is read from the data source with the first computer and in response to the read data the ion deposition print unit is controlled with the first computer to print variable information on the paper web. Form lag commands are provided from the first computer to the second computer. In response to the lag commands the flexographic print units are independently controlled by the second computer to operatively engage and disengage the paper web and thereby print non-variable information from at least one of the flexographic units on each discrete document portion of the paper web.

Abstract: In reproducing medical images which are supplied in digital form and which vary in size, a web-like reproducing material is used. The reproducing material is cut at variable lengths in correspondence with the sizes of the images.

Abstract: A continuous web of material is unwound from a roll by driven pull rolls that feed the web material to a printing unit in a feedline of an envelope making machine. The printing unit prints a selected one of the inside surface and the outside surface of the web before the web is cut and folded to form envelopes. The printing unit is supported by a base which is mounted for pivotal movement on a platform of a fixed frame member. The base is connected to the platform by a vertical pivot pin for movement through a 180.degree. between a first position for printing the inside surface of the web and a second position for printing the outside surface of the web. The base of the printer is locked to the platform in the selected one of the first and second positions to perform the desired printing operation. The web is fed between counter-rotating impression and plate cylinders rotatably mounted and driven on the printer base.

Abstract: An on-demand narrow web electrophotographic printer and method of printing forms a latent image and a narrow web paper feeding mechanism feeds paper from a roll for closely spaced printouts of tickets or labels, such as adhesive-backed labels, for bar codes, receipts of arbitrary length, or lottery tickets. An endless rotary latent image carrier mechanism and cutter blade are synchronized with a paper infeed mechanism, a fixing unit, and an outfeed to feed, print and cut the paper printout at a controlled length and with no paper wastage. In different embodiments, a length of paper is either accumulated in advance or drawn back to a position ahead of the drum to allow on-demand operation without sacrificing printing efficiency.

Abstract: A cutting device for transversely severing a printed web into signatures utilizes a collection and counter-cylinder, in cooperation with a cutting cylinder support that carries two cutting cylinders. Each cutting cylinder is rotatable with respect to the cutting cylinder support. These two cutting cylinders are also both axially shiftable on the cutting support cylinder to vary the lengths of the signatures being cut.

Abstract: A cutting device includes a mechanism for receiving and cutting a sheet member between two blades, a motor for driving the mechanism, and a mechanism for detecting the operational state of the cutting mechanism. If the cutting operation cannot be completed within a preset time period, the motor is driven with a higher torque.

Abstract: An electrostatic plotter includes a housing having a side to be confronted by an operator. A recording head is disposed in the housing for recording a latent image on a recording paper supplied from a roll of recording paper disposed in the housing near the operator side. The latent image recorded on the recording paper is developed into a visible image by a developing unit in the housing. A cutting unit cuts off a sheet with the developed visible image thereon from the recording paper and discharges the cut sheet toward the operator side of the housing. A control unit controls the cutting unit and issues a size signal indicative of the size of each of sheets cut off by the cutting unit. A plurality of stackers are positioned on a discharge side of the cutting unit and operable to sort and store the cut sheets in response to the size signal.

Abstract: An improved score or perforator bar device is adapted for use with certain printing presses having a blanket cylinder revolving upon an axle shaft and with an elongate slot for attachment of the blanket. The adapter device includes a bar of a length substantially the same as the cylinder with a working side having a longitudinal slot for mounting a knife blade. The knife blade has either a scoring edge or a perforation edge, depending upon the desired effect. The bar has an attachment side for connection to the blanket cylinder and has legs extending generally perpendicularly. The legs have recessed ends for bearing against the cylinder shaft so that the force of the blade is transferred to the axle shaft and not to the cylinder shell. Hooks selectively extend about the cylinder shaft. A screw arrangement retains the bar in a cylinder slot. A numbering device in lieu of the knife blade can be retained within the longitudinal slot.

Abstract: A score or perforator bar device is adapted for use with certain printing presses having a blanket cylinder revolving upon an axle shaft and with an elongate slot for attachment of the blanket. The adapter device includes a bar of a length substantially the same as the cylinder with a working side having a longitudinal slot for mounting a knife blade. The knife blade has either a scoring edge or a perforation edge, depending upon the desired effect. The bar has an attachment side for connection to the blanket cylinder and has legs extending generally perpendicularly. The legs have recessed ends for bearing against the cylinder shaft so that the force of the blade is transferred to the axle shaft and not to the cylinder shell. A screw arrangement retains the bar in a cylinder slot.

Abstract: An anti-wrap apparatus and method for high speed printing press involves detecting the start of web wrap after web break to deactivate the press motors and apply the press brakes. In addition the detection mechanism which senses a change in the web path, can sever the already printed web being drawn backwards by the start of web wrap, to limit the availability of web material, for web wrap. In the case of difficult to sever web materials, severing action can be enhanced by forcing the web being drawn backwards, against the severing detection mechanism.

Abstract: A paper cutting system for use with printer mechanisms, and more particularly to an apparatus and method for double cutting paper in a printer to trim the final output paper to a standard length. The invention provides an economical means for printing a full-size image on a standard length output sheet from a roll of paper by initially setting the length of the output sheet to the desired standard length plus the length of the necessary leading margin. After the image is printed full-size on the extra-length output sheet, the output sheet is advanced forward out of the printer and cut a first time by the printer's paper trimmer to crop the leading margin of the output sheet. The output sheet is then advanced forward again and cut a second time to crop the output sheet to the desired standard length size.

Abstract: A removable print station has opposed, outwardly extending support portions configured for complemental reception within existing die cutter slots of a press frame. The drop-in printing station includes a plate cylinder which cooperates with an anvil roller associated with the removed die cutting unit for establishing an image on the web passing therebetween. Once the printing station is secured in place, precise lateral adjustment of the position occupied by the printing cylinder, an anilox roller and a doctor roller may be effected as desired.

Abstract: A notch cylinder unit for selectively activating a plurality of impaling pins such as might be used for separating and removing a strip from a paper web. The notch cylinder unit comprises a cylinder having a longitudinally extending hole and a hollowing driving shaft extending therethrough, at least two rows of removable blades extending radially outwardly from and longitudinally of the cylinder, and adapted to cut a strip in the web, and a plurality of slidably mounted impaling pins generally equally spaced between the rows of blades and adapted to puncture, hook and remove the strip. The notch unit cylinder unit further includes an activating means including an activating means for activating or deactivating the impaling pins.

Abstract: The tape module for mounting in a mailing machine includes a tape track supported by a support means such that the tape track is supported in a generally cantilevered manner. A tape positioning means selectively positioning the support means in a first position and in a second position longitudinally removed from the first position. A tape feed means for selectively feeding one of a plurality of imprinting tapes to and through the tape track such that the fed imprinting tape resides within the tape track when the tape track is in the second position.

Abstract: The print carriers which bear security-paper prints arranged in longitudinal and transverse rows and on which misprints are marked are numbered in such a way that all security-paper prints arranged in succession in a longitudinal row, but excluding misprints, receive a consecutive numerical sequence. Each longitudinal row contains security-paper prints of a specific numerical series. The print carriers are then cut into strips transversely relatively to the longitudinal rows. Approximately every 100 strips are stacked, in the order in which they occur, into a strip stack (T), in which all the security-paper prints arranged vertically on top of one another, if appropriate mixed with misprints, have a consecutive numerical sequence of a particular series. The strip stacks (T) are cut into security-paper bundles (U) which are sorted according to numerical series by means of a distributor station (10, 11a, 11b) and are fed to as many separate buffer stores (12A to 12F) as there are numerical series.

Abstract: A replacement cheekstrip having an upper part and a lower part for fitting into a knife box assembly that is installed in the rotary cutting cylinder of the folder used on a roll fed printing press. The upper part is made from a hard solid material connected to the lower part which is made from a soft material. The soft material can be open cell sponge rubber. A knife is inserted between the flat surfaces of the replacement cheekstrips. The soft material applies correct tension to the upper part, hard solid material, which in turn contacts the paper, against an adjacent cutting member, and clamps it securely to enable the knife to make a quiet, consistent, distortion free, severance.

Abstract: A corrugated paper arrangement for manufacturing printed corrugated paper cuts, in which a corrugated paper machine has an integrated rotary printing machine with several printing stations, and at least one longitudinal cutter and at least one transverse cutter. The printing stations are integrated to serve for printing a paper web with laterally adjacent areas of different width and length, which are individually or in groups connectable with the drive of the arrangement. The printing stations carry for each area, printing forms mounted on an endless exchangeable carrier band of different lengths. Several longitudinal cutters and transverse cutters or punching presses are provided for the different area lengths.

Abstract: The printer includes a slide member adapted to be reciprocally moved by a drive source. The printer comprises a paper cutting member reciprocally movable for cutting the printed paper, a connecting member connected to the paper cutting member and arranged so as to be engaged with and disengaged from the slide member, and an electromagnetic device adapted to be actuated by a paper cutting signal for controlling the engagement and disengagement of the connecting member with and from the slide member, to thereby permit the cutting member to be engaged by the slide member by the electromagnetic device when activated by the paper cutting signal so as to actuate the slide member for operating the paper cutting member.

Abstract: A method of forming a stack of unexpanded honeycomb core sheets from a continous web of which alternate sheets in the stack have linearly spaced and transversely extending lines of adhesive on one side spaced equally between similar adhesive lines on the others of the sheets when evenly stacked, such method including applying linearly spaced and transversely extending lines of adhesive on one face of the web, cutting the web parallel to the adhesive lines with one cut being made along the linear center of a line of adhesive and the next cut being made along the linear center of the space between the adhesive lines, and then stacking the cut sheets in even edge alignment resulting in the lines of adhesive being linearly staggered on one sheet with respect to those on the adjacent sheet.

Abstract: A rotary cylindrical-screen printing apparatus for specularly printing equal patterns and/or colors onto the opposite faces of a fabric is disclosed, comprising two rotary screen printing machines, each equipped with electromechanical means for synchronizing the speed of the belt with the speed of the printing rollers, in which said machines are coupled by arranging one machine over the other, the fabric entering the underlying machine and thereafter entering the second upper machine which prints the opposite face of the fabric, the second machine comprising a transmission roller associated with its belt having a diameter equal to at least twice the diameter of the contiguous roller of the first machine, the apparatus comprising means for synchronizing the speeds of the printing rollers of two machines, including a transducer linked to the speed of the belt of a machine, whose outgoing frequency signal is sent to pilot the electrohydraulic motors controlling the printing rollers of both machines and means for

Abstract: A belt-type printing machine, having a stationary web-handling assembly, including a pair of impression rolls, and a plurality of belt-supporting assemblies which are mobile and separable from the web-handling assembly, is disclosed. The belt-supporting assemblies each carry a plate support roll and an endless conveyor belt to which a number of printing plates are bonded. The belt-supporting assemblies are each stabilized in a printing position adjacent the web-handling assembly, by locking the plate roll adjacent an impression roll to form between the rolls, a nip through which the web and belt pass. The rolls are locked together in such a way that the rolls of the belt-supporting assembly and web-handling assembly are driven, in unison. A pair of mobile, belt-supporting assemblies are provided for each impression roll of the web-handling assembly, so that one of the belt-supporting assemblies can be removed to a remote location for rebelting while the other is in operation.

Abstract: A paper web is continuously moved by rotary drive rollers through a series of printing machines having pairs of printing rollers movable between inoperative and printing positions, and controlled and operated so that successive web sections are imprinted by the correlated printing machines only once whereby a plurality of type areas representing printed pages are printed on both sides of each web section in a predetermined pattern. After cutting of the web sections into sheets, and after collecting and folding the sheets, consecutive printed pages follow each other in a folded book.

Abstract: This ticket making machine is capable of issuing a single ticket without waste of ticket stock. A web of ticket stock having a magnetic stripe record surface is arranged to be advanced around a rotating carrier having a magnetic recording unit and one ticket (web) parting member arranged internally threof. The web is passed between the rotating carrier and a complementary ticket (web) parting member. The peripheral speed of the rotating carrier is very much greater than the speed of the advancing web, whereby the information is magnetically recorded in close to conventional manner. The one parting member is a double-ended anvil arranged to be rotated into and out of position for parting the web in cooperation with a blade forming the complementary parting member. A camming surface arrangement in the same frame structure as the carrier and web are mounted and a cam follower coupled to the anvil toggles the latter on demand for exerting relatively light force for engaging the two in parting the web.

Abstract: A paper web is continuously moved by rotary drive rollers through a series of printing machines having pairs of printing rollers movable between inoperative and printing positions, and controlled and operated so that successive web sections are imprinted by the correlated printing machines only once whereby a plurality of type areas representing printed pages are printed on both sides of each web section in a predetermined pattern. After cutting of the web sections into sheets, and after collecting and folding the sheets, consecutive printed pages follow each other in a folded book.