Abstract: A web-fed press is provided. The web-fed press includes a reel carrier and a plurality of printing units arranged one after another for printing a printing material with a static printed image. The web-fed press includes a folder superstructure that is arranged after the printing units and a folding unit arranged after the folder superstructure. An imprinting unit for individualizing the static printed image with, in particular, changing text and/or image constituents is integrated into the web-fed press in the region of the folder superstructure.

Abstract: A web is guided in a processing machine by the use of a device which includes a regular device and at least one further web guiding element. These cooperate to subject the web to an offset or to a change in direction. The regular device and the at least one further web guiding element are arranged for mounting on a common guide in a direction that is transverse to the direction of travel of one incoming web.

Abstract: A printing machine is comprised of several printing groups, at least one dryer and at least one folding apparatus. At least two of the printing groups are arranged side by side in the axial direction of the cylinders in the printing groups. A longitudinal direction of the dryer extends perpendicular to the axes of rotation of at least one cylinder group which defines a printing gap.

Abstract: A rotary roller printing press has a printing unit for printing a web in six printed pages arranged axially next to each other. A superstructure is used to cut the web longitudinally into three partial webs. A folding installation is used to fold the partial webs and includes at least one roller for transporting the partial webs, and at least one folding apparatus. The printing unit, the at least one roller for transporting the partial webs of the folding installation, and the folding apparatus, which is arranged after in the direction of web travel, the other devices, are each separately mechanically driven by a separate drive motor.

Abstract: A device for providing folded products utilizes a funnel-shaped structure that consists of at least two funnels that are usable for providing two longitudinally folded strands or webs. A register device is usable for adjusting a path of at least one of the strands or webs between the funnel and the entrance to a folding machine. The register device can be associated with both of the strands or webs.

Abstract: A method for setting the cut register in a web-fed rotary press includes assigning a cut register function to a predetermined speed function, wherein the predetermined speed function describes a time curve of an operating speed of the rotary press starting from a predetermined initial value and the cut register function describes a time curve of the set value of the cut register, and changing the set value of the cut register continuously and synchronously in accordance with the associated cut register function during a variation in the operating speed of the rotary press according to the predetermined speed function, the cut register function being chosen empirically such that it counteracts a change in the actual value of the cut position as a result of the change in the operating speed.

Abstract: An apparatus and process for making sheets having indicia spaced in a machine direction. Between or among the indicia are perforations or chop-off cuts. The spacing, in the machine direction, between the indicia and perforations or chop-off cuts is maintained over long sheet lengths. The product produced using this apparatus and process is typically paper, and particularly can be used for paper towels or placemats.

Abstract: A system and method for managing the tension and maintaining registration between multiple webs in a web finishing system. The method involves transporting a first web and at least second web toward a finishing apparatus, comparing relative positions of registration marks on the webs, severing lengths of the second web in response to the relative positions, aligning each length of the second web with the first web, and then performing a finishing operation on the webs with the finishing apparatus. The system includes the finishing apparatus, devices for transporting the webs toward the finishing apparatus, devices for comparing the relative positions of the registration marks on the webs, a device for severing lengths of the second web in response to the relative positions, and a device for individually aligning each length of the second web with the first web before the webs encounter the finishing apparatus.

Abstract: A control method for controlling a cut-off control apparatus in a printing press comprises a step of detecting an unstable factor such as a revolution number of a cylinder/a tensile value of a web in a printing press, a step for setting a stable factor such as a revolution number/a tensile value in an actual printing operation, and a control step for controlling the cut-off-control apparatus by comparing the detected unstable factor and the previously set stable factor to control a cutting position of a web in the printing press.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for controlling the cutting position of a web member in a printing press by setting a reference tensile value, detecting the present tensile value of a web in a printing press during an actual printing operation, and controlling the starting and stopping of the position of the web member as a function of the difference between the reference tensile value and the present tensile value.

Abstract: A process for making continuous stretchable substrate products comprising the steps of supplying a web of stretchable substrate having a first surface and a second surface, embossing at least one of the surfaces of the web substrate with an embossed image using at least one embossing roller, printing at least one of the surfaces of the web substrate with a printed image using at least one printing roller; wherein the embossed image and the printed image are disposed onto the substrate relative to each other such that a print/emboss registration is created, measuring the angular location of one embossing roller and translating that location into a digital signal, measuring the angular location of one printing roller and translating that location into a digital signal, manually zeroing the print/emboss registration; and automatically controlling the print and emboss rolls to maintain registration using a control program that comprises the steps of i) comparing the digital signal from the embossing roller and th

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: A folder includes a cutter for cutting a web of material into signatures, a folding device for producing at least one fold in a signature cut from the web of material, at least one delivery and one conveyor path for directly feeding the cut signatures to the delivery device while avoiding the folding device. The signatures can be guided either by the conveyor path or through the folding device. A signature switch of the conveyor path distributes the signatures to two flies or paddle wheels that deliver to conveyor belt devices that are arranged in parallel to the rotational axes of the paddle wheels.

Abstract: An apparatus and process for making sheets having indicia spaced in a machine direction. Between or among the indicia are perforations or chop-off cuts. The spacing, in the machine direction, between the indicia and perforations or chop-off cuts is maintained over long sheet lengths. The product produced using this apparatus and process is typically paper, and particularly can be used for paper towels or placemats.

Abstract: The printing apparatus comprises a printer and a laminator; media that advances and is printed in the printer is fed to the laminator device. The apparatus comprises means for loading in the laminator device the leading edge of the media leaving the printer, said loading means comprising a carrier, on which no printing is performed, attached to the leading edge of the media and to take-up means downstream of the laminator device, such that said carrier travels through the laminator device. Said carrier may comprise a length of lamination film, or a sheet or strips and means for their attachment to the media. The loading method comprises providing a carrier travelling through the laminator and attached to the leading edge of the media and to take-up means, and causing the carrier to advance leading the media through the laminator.

Abstract: Faulty useful units printed on a sheet of useful units are separated from the acceptable useful units. A first cutting device cuts the sheet into a plurality of longitudinal strips, each of which contains several of the useful units. A quality control device detects the faulty useful units prior to a second cutting device that cuts the strips into individual units. A filtering unit is placed between the two cutting units and filters out strips with one or more faulty units. Strips with no faulty units replace the filtered out faulty unit strips. This simplifies further processing of the strips.

Abstract: A pattern of continuously printing a sheet without any margin between images and cutting a boundary between the images, a pattern of continuously printing the sheet with a margin between the images and performing two upper and lower cuttings at the places slightly inside the image around boundaries between the image and each of the margins, and a pattern of continuously printing the image obtained by cutting upper and lower ends of the original image without any margin between the images and cutting the boundary between the images are prepared beforehand. To execute the printing, an instruction as to the method for performing the printing is received from a user. This provides a printing system of printing the continuous sheet, subsequently automatically cutting the sheet, and outputting a standard-size printed matter without any margin, wherein the plurality of patterns can be switched regarding a printing mode and cut position of the image to complete the printing.

Abstract: A printing machine includes several sections, each of which has at least one printing unit with at least one web running through the at least one printing unit per section. Two such sections are arranged offset to each other, transverse to the longitudinal direction of the printing machine. Production of a printed product is achieved, at least in part, by using a common folding unit that extends over the total width of the printing machine.

Abstract: A paper feeding device and method, wherein a tray including a paper loading unit, a paper feeding device, a paper cutting device is slid out of a main body of an image forming apparatus. When a new rolled transfer paper is loaded in the paper loading unit, the rolled transfer paper is conveyed so that a tip portion thereof is discharged from a rolled transfer paper outlet of the tray. The discharged tip portion of the rolled transfer paper is cut by the paper cutting device.

Abstract: A blister packaging production line preferably includes an unmarked supply of backing for blister packaging, a printer for selectively printing on the backing and a host system controlling the printer and providing a variety of desired designs to the printer. The design being printed on the backing can be changed on-demand by transmitting a new design from the host system to the printer. Additionally, a blister packaging production line may include an unmarked supply of material backing for blister packaging, a printer for selectively printing on the material and a shaping device for forming recesses in the material that will receive items being blister packaged. The printed design can be of any desired length.

Abstract: A device for positioning a cross cut relative to printed images on at least one printing material web in a web-fed press having at least one printing unit, includes a cross cutter. Also included is a computing device for generatingtherein at least a first control signal for changing a phase angle of the printing unit and the cross cutter relative to one another. A path length variation device for changing a path length through which the printing material web runs between the printing unit and the cross cutter is also included. The computing device further serves for generating a second control signal for changing the path length and, by interaction of the change in the relative phase angle and the change in the path length, serves for adjusting the positioning of a cross cut on the printing material web. A web-fed printing press includes the cross-cut positioning device. A method for operating the device is also provided.

Abstract: A water jet cutting device is used to cut a paper web into a plurality of partial paper webs. The water jet cutting device is placed between the output of a web-fed rotary printing press and the input of a folder which folds the plurality of partial paper webs.

Abstract: The invention relates to a rotary roller printing press with a printing unit for printing a web with six printed pages, arranged axially next to each other, comprising a superstructure in which the web is cut longitudinally into three partial webs, with a folding installation, comprising at least one roller for transporting the partial webs and at least one folding apparatus. The invention is characterised in that the printing unit, the at least one roller for transporting the partial webs of the folding installation and a folding apparatus arranged after the above are separately mechanically driven by drive motors.

Abstract: A method and device for combining folios between a first and a second web in a rotary printing press. A first folio is cut from a third web in the rotary press, the first folio is stored on a storage device and then transferred from the storage device to a position between the first and second webs. Also, a web product moveable in a rotary printing press that includes a first web, a second web, a first folio, and a second folio. The first and second folios are stacked relative to one another and sandwiched between the first and second continuous webs.

Abstract: A printing device includes a roll-to roll printing press for forming a plurality of printed rolls and a separate assembly device, the assembly device having a plurality of roll unwinding devices separate from the printing press, a first folder accepting at least one first web from the roll unwinding devices and forming first signatures, and a second folder accepting at least one second web from the roll unwinding devices and forming second signatures. Also provided is a printing device having a roll-to-roll printing press for printing an image to a web so as to form at least one printed roll, a roll storage unit for the at least one printed roll, and a folder for folding and cutting the at least one printed roll. The folder is located separately from the printing press, and is part of an assembly device which performs a collecting and binding operation.

Abstract: A printer using a roll of paper having an easy structure and ease of maintenance. A bottom plate (10a) of a printer body unit (10) is attached to a bottom plate (31) of a connecting member (30). At the side wall (32) of the connecting member, a cutter unit (20) is attached so as to be rotatable around the pivot P. A platen (40) is attached to the cutter unit through a platen support member (50). A print head (12) has a printing surface (12a) and a rear surface (12b). The printing surface and the rear surface are arranged substantially perpendicular to the bottom plate (10a) of the printer body unit. When the printer is not used, the cutter unit is rotated upwardly at about 90 degrees, so that the platen is located on the non-printing surface side of the print head, opposite to a printing surface, with respect to a rear surface of the print head. Thus, the place above the print head becomes widely open, and the maintenance of the print head can be easily operated.

Abstract: The invention relates to a printing device for printing labels which have been removably affixed to a carrier strip, in particular goods labels, comprising at least one label feed device which comprises at least one wiper head, as well as comprising at least one printer with at least one print head for printing the label. Different label models can be printed in a continuous labelling process using only one printer, if at least one conveyor device is provided which conveys the labels, which have been peeled off at a wiper head, of which there is at least one, to the printer, of which there is at least one.

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: A signature transfer device includes a rotating arm rotating about a first axis and a first gripper rotatably mounted on the rotating arm about a second axis, the first and second axes being parallel, the first gripper having a first gripper finger and a second gripper finger. An actuator is connected to the first gripper for opening and closing the first gripper as a function of the angle of the rotating arm about the first axis, and a compression spring connects the first gripper finger and the second gripper finger, the compression spring being compressed when the first gripper and the second gripper finger are apart.

Abstract: A system for continuous printing is disclosed. The system includes an unwind storing a roll of print media; a cutter which receives the print media and which cuts the print media into sheets of variable length; a sheet printer which receives the sheets of print media from said cutter, prints a design on each of the sheets and outputs printed-on sheets; an edge sensor which detects a leading edge of each of the printed-on sheets when output from said sheet printer; a rewind which receives the printed-on sheets output from said sheet printer; and a controller which receives an output signal from said edge sensor indicating the detection of the leading edge and synchronizes said rewind and the received printed-on sheets to cause a trailing edge and the leading edge of each successive printed-on sheet received by said rewind to be butted one to the other on the rewind.

Abstract: A guide strip removal system includes a pair of guide strip removal devices positioned on opposite sides of a printer outlet where a continuous sheet of paper is discharged. The guide strip removal devices each include a pair of plate members secured together in a spaced apart parallel relationship to define a narrow slot therebetween. The plate members each have a corner portion delineated from a planar main body portion by respective narrow slits that extend from front edges of the plate members toward rear edges thereof. The corner portions are angled away from the main body portions to create paths for the side edge guide strips that diverge abruptly away from paths for the marginal side edge portions of the printer paper. The side edge guide strips are thereby removed from the marginal side edge portions of the, paper without the use of any moving parts or cutting blades.

Abstract: A device for guiding a travelling web comprises a first movable angle bar and a second movable angle bar located in respective positions in a first operative mode to guide the travelling web from an entering direction to an exiting direction and to define a first print-to-cut registration setting. In a second operative mode the exiting direction of the travelling web is changed and the print-to-cut register is maintained, whereas in a third operative mode the print-to-cut register is changed and the exiting direction is maintained.

Abstract: To stably transport an elongated web-like print paper so as not to move in the widthwise direction of the print paper, a first sensor is disposed at a first position in a paper conveying path and a second sensor at a second position downstream of the first position with respect to the paper conveying direction. Both the first and second sensors detect a position of a side edge or the print paper. A difference between the outputs from the first and second sensors is computed while taking a travel time of the edge detected by the first sensor to reach the second sensor into account. A main controller generates a drive signal based on the difference computed and controls a mechanism for moving the print paper in the widthwise direction in accordance with the drive signal.

Abstract: A rotary-blade folding unit includes at least one folding blade, a pair of folding rollers and a drive for producing a hypocycloid movement of the folding blade about a rotational axis of the folding blade and a main rotational axis for folding a signature that has been guided up to the rotary-blade folding unit in a transport plane extending between the main rotational axis and the folding rollers, and further includes a drive mechanism for producing an oscillatory movement of the folding blade at least approximately parallel to the main rotational axis; a folder including the folding unit; and a printing machine in combination with the folder.

Abstract: A drive for two interacting folding rolls, the drive including a first drive-in gear, a first roll gear driven by the first drive-in gear, a first cover for sealing the first drive-in gear and the first roll gear, a second drive-in gear, a second roll gear driven by the second drive-in gear and adjustable with respect to the first roll gear, and a second cover for sealing the second drive-in gear and the second roll gear. Also provided is a method for sealing a drive of interacting first and second folding cylinders comprising the steps of sealing a first drive-in gear and a first cylinder gear of the first folding cylinder using a first cover, and sealing a second drive-in gear and a second cylinder gear of the second folding cylinder using a second cover, the first cylinder gear being adjustable with respect to the second cylinder gear.

Abstract: A cutting machine which dispenses and cuts sheet material includes a carriage on rails for movement parallel to the horizontal rolls carried on a vertical carrousel. The carriage supports a cutting table top and a drive roller at one side for driving the roll of floor covering material on the carrousel in forward direction for feeding the sheet to the table top and in reverse direction for re-winding. A measuring wheel and electric eye for detecting the presence of the material are located on the table top. A sensor is provided to detect if the measuring wheel is de-activated during use. A control unit includes a printer and is arranged to cause measurement and feeding of a measured length of the material which is fed to a re-roller on the carriage.

Abstract: A device for guiding copies severed from a material web in a folder by a cutting-cylinder pair includes revolving transport tapes for picking up the copies after they have passed through a copy guide arranged in an outlet wedge of the cutting-cylinder pair, the copy guide extending at least partly over the width of the material web, and being formed of copy guide sections which are automatically adjustable, both with respect to the width of the copies to be guided and with respect to a passage cross section for the copies to be guided; a folder including the copy-guiding device; and a web-processing rotary printing machine including at least one folder with at least one device according to the invention.

Abstract: A high speed web cutting and tuck folding machine feeds webs downstream between overlying and underlying runs of feed belts having cutting and tuck folding openings spaced along the belts. Lead segments of the webs are cut at a cutting station and are fed downstream to a tuck fold station where they are drawn through tuck fold openings, folded and stacked. The machine is readily adjusted to vary the length of the cut segments and the relative lengths of the legs of the segments when folded.

Abstract: An imaging system includes a guide which transports a recording medium and a roller which holds the recording medium in place to pull the recording medium through an imaging plane defined by a surface of the roller. A device forms an image onto the recording medium at the imaging plane. The roller is a vacuum roller that uses a vacuum produced at the imaging plane to hold the recording medium in place during transport and imaging.

Abstract: A device for infeeding a material web into a rotary printing machine includes an infeed element for receiving a material web start, the infeed element being introducible onto an introduction path extending at least approximately parallel to a path of the material web in the rotary printing machine. Also included are suspension stations at which the material web is connectable to the infeed element, the suspension stations being assigned to respective components of the rotary printing machine along the path of the material web through the rotary printing machine; and a web-processing rotary printing machine having a guide path for the infeed element.

Abstract: A high speed web cutting and tuck folding machine feeds webs downstream between overlying and underlying runs of feed belts having cutting and tuck folding openings spaced along the belts. Lead segments of the webs are cut at a cutting station and are fed downstream to a tuck fold station where they are drawn through tuck fold openings, folded and stacked. The machine is readily adjusted to vary the length of the cut segments and the relative lengths of the legs of the segments when folded.

Abstract: A paper web, which may be pinless, is slit into side-by-side web ribbons that are merged one on top of the other for simultaneous crosscutting into appropriate page lengths. One web ribbon wraps substantially about an angled turnbar to shift it into registry with the other web ribbon. Pressurized air may be provided to the turnbar assembly to reduce friction with the web ribbon. The other web ribbon is detoured via a takeup roller by an amount that is dictated by the circumference of the turnbar assembly. A driven roller in continuous contact with one of the web ribbons draws it toward a cross cutter. A slave roller is in slipping contact with the remaining web ribbon and draws it toward the same crosscutter to maintain registry between the ribbons. Three-up, four-up, and more-up variations are disclosed.

Abstract: A sheeting apparatus and method are disclosed for cutting a web of material passing through a printing press into sheets. The apparatus comprises a rotating die roller including a knife mounted longitudinally thereon, the die roller being connected to the printing press transversely to the web and moveable between an engaging position wherein the knife rotates into cutting engagement with the web and a released position wherein the knife does not contact the web. A pair of springs bias the die roller into one of the engaging and released positions and a pair of linear actuators are provided to selectively move the die roller into the other of the engaging and released positions in opposition to the spring bias. The sheeting apparatus further includes a programmable controller for automatically operating the actuators. The method involves cyclically moving the die roller between the released position and the engaging position at intervals to cut the web into sheets of a predetermined length.

Abstract: A method and device for combining folios between a first and a second web in a rotary printing press. A first folio is cut from a third web in the rotary press, the first folio is stored on a storage device and then transferred from the storage device to a position between the first and second webs. Also, a web product moveable in a rotary printing press that includes a first web, a second web, a first folio, and a second folio. The first and second folios are stacked relative to one another and sandwiched between the first and second continuous webs.

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: In an apparatus for imprinting an unmarked foil with images which are to be arranged within sections of the foil of a predetermined length L, including a printing device, a foil section transport device for moving the foil stepwise in sections of the length L, a cutting device for cutting the foil into the sections and a foil buffer arrangement accommodating a varying length of the foil between the printing device and the transport device, a foil motion sensor is arranged at the exit of the buffer arrangement for sensing the foil movement out of the buffer arrangement and controlling accordingly the speed of the printing device and a foil length sensor is arranged in the buffer arrangement and providing a print initiation signal when the foil length between the end of the foil in the cutting device and the printing device is a predetermined multiple of the foil section length L.

Abstract: The configuration enables the introduction of a material web, which can be divided up into material sub-web strands, into the conveying paths of an angle-bar superstructure of a rotary printing machine. A slitting arrangement, which can be positioned in a variable manner in the angle-bar superstructure, and web drawing-in devices and components for attaching the material web or the material sub-web strands to the web drawing-in devices are provided. Assigned to the web-running plane is an adjustable advancement element which bridges a contact-pressure gap in relation to a mating roller, accommodated in the angle-bar superstructure, and by way of which one of the material sub-web strands or can be attached to an introduction element which can be moved into the web-running plane.

Abstract: In a folder, a folding cylinder having folding components accommodated on the periphery thereof and being phase-dependently operatable, and cylinder segments for carrying the folding components, the cylinder segments being adjustable in relation to one another and being mounted coaxially in side walls, includes separate drives, respectively, for driving each of the folding components, a rotary leadthrough via which energy is supplied to the separate drives, and a speed controller for speed-dependently controlling the separate drives; a method of operating the folding cylinder; a folder including the folding cylinder; and a rotary printing machine in combination with the folder including the folding cylinder.

Abstract: A rotary printing press control method receiving a drive reference from a master control section, generating a phase correction based on dividing a length between a printing unit and a folding unit by an outer peripheral length of a printing cylinder of the printing unit, generating a drive reference speed signal based on the drive reference, generating a corrected drive reference phase signal obtained by correcting a drive reference phase based on the drive reference with the phase correction, generating a feedback speed signal and a feedback phase signal based on the operating condition of the printing unit, generating a phase difference signal based on a phase difference between the corrected drive reference phase and the feedback phase signal, and correcting the drive reference speed signal and the feedback speed signal to control a drive for the printing unit.