EP0476328B1 - Verbessertes Drucksystem ohne Farbmesser zum lithographischem Drucken ohne Farbmesser - Google Patents

Verbessertes Drucksystem ohne Farbmesser zum lithographischem Drucken ohne Farbmesser Download PDF

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EP0476328B1
EP0476328B1 EP19910113910 EP91113910A EP0476328B1 EP 0476328 B1 EP0476328 B1 EP 0476328B1 EP 19910113910 EP19910113910 EP 19910113910 EP 91113910 A EP91113910 A EP 91113910A EP 0476328 B1 EP0476328 B1 EP 0476328B1
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  • the present invention relates to printing systems for use in keyless lithographic printing processes.
  • ink is continuously conveyed from an ink source by means of a series of rollers to a planographic printing plate on a plate cylinder in a lithographic printing press.
  • Image portions of the printing plate accept ink from one or more of the last of a series of inking rollers and transfer a portion of that ink to a blanket cylinder as a reverse image from which a portion of the ink is transferred to form a correct-reading image on paper or other materials.
  • a dampening solution containing water and proprietary additives be conveyed continuously to the printing plate whereby transferring in part to the non-image areas of the printing plate the water functions to keep those non-image areas free of ink.
  • water and “dampening solution” refer to water plus additives or to other aqueous solutions used in the operation of lithographic printing presses.
  • the ink is continuously made available in varying amounts determined by cross-press column input control adjustments to all parts of the printing plate, including both image and non-image areas.
  • the printing plate will accept ink in both the image and non-image areas of its surface.
  • Lithographic printing plate surfaces in the absence of imaging materials have minute interstices and a hydrophilic or water-loving property to enhance retention of water, that is the dampening solution, rather than ink on the surface of the plate.
  • Imaging the plate creates oleophilic or ink-loving areas according to the image that is to be printed. Consequently, when both ink and dampening solution are presented to an imaged plate in appropriate amounts, only the ink tending to reside in non-image areas becomes disbonded from the plate. In general, this action accounts for the continuous ink and dampening solution differentiation on the printing plate surface, which is essential and integral to the lithographic printing process.
  • the operator may adjust a dampener input for best ink and dampening solution balance at one inking column, which may adversely affect the ink and dampening solution balance at one or more other cross-press locations. Adjustments such as these tend to occur repeatedly throughout the whole press run, resulting in slight to significant differences in the quality of the printed image throughout the run. In carrying out these adjustment operations, the resulting images may or may not be commercially acceptable, leading to waste in manpower, materials, and printing machine time.
  • Prior art devices and methods for correcting this inherent fault in conventional lithography utilize keyless inkers. Certain of these methods also involve eliminating the dampening system or eliminating operator control of the dampening system.
  • Keyless inking systems have been disclosed that purport to eliminate operator attention to column control of inking by elimination of adjustable inking keys, thereby avoiding much of the aforementioned disadvantages of conventional lithography.
  • an ink metering method is required that continues to function despite the presence of up to about 40% dampening solution in the ink without allowing any temporarily-free dampening solution to interfere with the ink-metering function.
  • the unused or non-uniform portion of the ink film that is being continuously presented to the printing plate must be continuously scraped-off the return side of the inking system to enable continuous presentation of a uniform ink film to the plate by the supply side of the inking system.
  • a keyless printing system as defined in the preamble of claim 1 or 11 is known from US-A-4,690,055.
  • the location of the dampening system is not critical and can be positioned either to supply dampening solution directly to the plate cylinder or at some other location such as at an oscillator drum to which ink is also being supplied.
  • An ink circulating and mixing system receives new or replenishment ink, as well as the ink and dampening solution combination that is continuously returned from a doctor blade which scrapes excess printing fluid from a rotating metering roller.
  • Such ink and dampening combinations are generally herein referred to as printing fluids.
  • the printing fluid circulating and mixing system functions to assure an inherently uniform cross-press input of printing fluid that remains consistent throughout and consists of a printing fluid pan roller, pump and appropriate conduits, a printing fluid pan level controlling system, and a printing fluid reservoir of such volume and design that it assures the printing fluid being fed to the metering roller is uniform in composition at any given instant of time despite the existence of the continual cross-press dampening solution to ink ratio differences of the unused or scraped return printing fluid previously referred to.
  • the printing fluid circulation system is designed to continuously collect and distribute the printing fluid from a reservoir through a plenum or series of orifices to uniformly redistribute the printing fluid across the press width to provide uniform composition of the printing fluid that is being introduced to the metering roller.
  • the metering roller can be one of the types shown and described in US-A-4,882,990, 4,537,127, 4,862,799, 4,567,827, or 4,601,242, (all of which are hereby incorporated by reference) or any wear resistant oleophilic and hydrophobic metering roller as substantially therein defined.
  • the pan roller which dips into the pool of printing fluid cannot be driven at press speeds because printing fluid would be propelled from its surface in many directions, including outside of the pan regions into the pressroom.
  • the slow rotational movement of the pan roller causes undue and severe wear on the metering roller surface when the two are in indented relationship. Consequently, the pan roller/metering roller confluence must be a gap. Control of that gap to avoid metering roller wear and yet simultaneously assure complete filling of the metering roller cells is difficult to engineer and to control over long periods of running time. For instance, depending upon flow properties of the ink being used, the cells may or may not become completely filled when non-forcing conditions such as a gap between the pan roller and the celled roller are used or when ink input systems not using pan rollers are employed.
  • the slow-moving pan roller running in contact with the rapidly turning metering roller that is rotating at press speed may rapidly wear away the hard but abradable oleophilic and hydrophobic metering roller surface, thereby negating that element's necessary contribution to successful keyless lithographic inking operation.
  • the metering roller may become hydrophilic which allows the dampening water to interfere with uniform and efficient metering of ink into the system or it may lose its capacity to retain ink by loss of the celled surface morphology.
  • ink is conveyed by an ink source by means of a series of rollers to a printing plate on a plate cylinder.
  • a dampening system is provided to supply dampening solution directly to the plate cylinder.
  • the ink source comprises a pan containing a pool of printing fluid.
  • the series of rollers comprises a pan roller which dips into the pool of printing fluid. A gap is provided between this pan roller and the next roller of the series of rollers.
  • Two transfer rollers are in rotational contact with an inking drum positioned between the roller next to the pan roller and the plate cylinder.
  • CH-A-36 20 94 discloses an ink supply arrangement of a printing machine comprising a plate cylinder and an impression cylinder.
  • the web to be printed travels between the plate clyinder and the impression cylinder.
  • the plate cylinder is inked by two inking rollers to which ink is supplied by a first drum.
  • the first drum is supplied with ink by a second drum via two transfer rollers disposed between the first and the second drum.
  • EP-A-30 96 81 discloses an offset lithographic printing press comprising a system for continuously preparing and supplying an ink and water mixture for printing.
  • the system for continuously preparing and supplying an ink and water mixture comprises reservoir means for containing and circulating a mixture of ink and dampening water, ink fountain means, pump means connected to said reservoir means and to said ink fountain means, a fountain roller mounted adjacent said ink fountain means, and a hard oleophilic and hydrophobic celled metering roller mounted in positive interference therewith to receive the ink and dampening water mixture from said fountain roller and deliver it to two inking form rollers disposed between the celled metering roller and a plate cylinder in contact with a rubber blanket cylinder.
  • the ink fountain means comprises an undershot ink fountain or ink fountain rails. The ink fountain rails are used to feed ink under pressure to a slowly rotating receiving roller.
  • the present invention overcomes the aforementioned problems, difficulties and inconveniences, yet retains all of the principles essential to keyless lithographic systems as disclosed in US-A-4,690,055. Accordingly, in this improvement the pan and pan roller are eliminated and at least two transfer rollers are employed between the metering roller and an inking drum in the inking train of rollers.
  • An object of the present invention is to provide an improved keyless lithographic printing system having more transfer rollers in the inking train than are required in prior art keyless lithographic printing systems.
  • Another principle object of the present invention is to provide an improved keyless lithographic system having greater latitude in the selection of useful metering roller technologies.
  • the objects are achieved by an improved keyless printing system as defined in claims 1 and 11 for use in a keyless lithographic printing press of the type having a blanket cylinder and a plate cylinder with printing plate mounted thereon.
  • the improved keyless printing system comprises: a means for supplying dampening water to the plate cylinder; at least one form roller in rotational contact with the plate cylinder; inking drum in rotational contact with the form roller; at least first and second transfer rollers in rotational contact with the inking drum; metering roller having at least an oleophilic and hydrophobic surface which together with a coacting ink doctoring blade retains a quantity of printing fluid for transfer by means of rotational contact with the first and second transfer rollers; and means for supplying printing fluid to the metering roller, said printing fluid supplying means comprising an input ink system not using a pan roller.
  • the first and second transfer rollers are frictionally driven by at least the metering roller and have a surface velocity substantially the name as the surface velocity of the metering roller.
  • FIG. 1 A keyless inking system incorporating the present invention is depicted in FIG. 1 in which a blanket cylinder 10 prints on a web 12 traveling as indicated by the directional arrow.
  • a plate cylinder 15 is contacted by two ink form rollers 16 which are in turn contacted by a metering roller 20 via drum 11, such as a copper drum, and two transfer rollers 13.
  • the ink metering roller 20 is preferably of the type disclosed in US-A-4,862,799, 4,882,990, 4,537,127, 4,567,827 or 4,601,242 which patents were cited previously.
  • the water is contained in a pan tray 23 and a pan roller 24 is used to pick up water from the pan tray 23 to bring it into contact with, for instance, a spiral brush roller 25 that is rotating at a speed which is different relative to the speed of rotation of pan roller 24.
  • a spiral brush roller 25 that is rotating at a speed which is different relative to the speed of rotation of pan roller 24.
  • dampening solution is transferred onto the transfer roller 22 and from there to the dampener form or dampening roller 19.
  • the dampening roller 19 is typically positioned in a water-first sequence so that, during each revolution of the press subsequent to transferring ink to the blanket cylinder 10, plates are first subjected to dampening solution from the dampening roller 19 before renewed printing fluid is applied to the imaged surface of the plates by means of the rubber covered ink form rollers 16.
  • a significant part of the present invention is the inking system that is used to supply printing fluid to the plate and blanket cylinders 15, 10.
  • This system makes it possible to supply a uniform mixture of ink and naturally occurring dampening solution to the plate cylinder 15 and thereby maintain the high print quality characteristic of conventional lithography.
  • a printing fluid and circulation system is used to deliver ink containing dampening solution, also referred to as the printing fluid, to the metering roller 20.
  • This means for supplying printing fluid is identified generally by the numeral 30.
  • Dampening solution in this system is not deliberately added to the ink but rather results naturally from ink coming in contact with dampening solution on the printing plate cylinder 15 and which, by means of the unused or return portion of printing fluid that passes or transfers back down through the various rollers, in part eventually enters the means for supplying printing fluid 30.
  • the means 30 for supplying printing fluid of the present invention is depicted in an open servicing position relative to the metering roller 20 in FIGS. 2 and 3.
  • An end view of the apparatus engaged with the metering roller 20 in a closed operating position is depicted in FIG. 4.
  • the metering roller 20 has first and second ends 32 and 34 which rotate in frames 36 and 38, respectively.
  • the metering roller 20 has a surface 40 intermediate the first and second ends 32 and 34, the surface 40 capable of retaining a quantity of printing fluid.
  • a housing 42 has an open first side 46 which mates with at least a portion of the surface 40 of the metering roller 20. When the housing 42 is in the closed operating position a chamber 44 is formed which contains the printing fluid under a predetermined pressure.
  • At least first and second end seal assemblies 48 and 50 are mounted on first and second opposed ends 52 and 54, respectively, of the housing 42.
  • Each of the first and second end seal assemblies 48 and 50 have at least a first surface 56 for mating with first and second end sections 58 and 60, respectively, of the metering roller 20.
  • a reverse angle doctor blade 62 is attached to a second side 64 of the housing 42 and has an edge 66 for contacting the surface 40 of the metering roller 20 and for removing excess printing fluid adhering to the surface 40 as the metering roller 20 rotates past the printing fluid filled chamber 44.
  • a sealing member 68 is attached to a third side 70 of the housing 42 and has a surface area 72 for substantially sealing the chamber 44, at least the surface area 72 of the sealing member 68 being adjacent the surface 40 of the metering roller 20 such that an edge 74 of the sealing member 68 extends into the chamber 44.
  • the sealing member 68 is substantially longer and more flexible than the reverse angle doctor blade 62.
  • the reverse angle doctor blade 62 is held against the surface 40 of the metering roller 20 at least in part by this pressurized printing fluid in the chamber 44.
  • the sealing member 68 may, for instance, be formed of steel or plastic and have a width in the range of approximately 2,54 to 5,08 cm (1 to 2 inches) and a thickness in the range of approximately 0,0102 to 0,0254 cm (0.004 to 0.01 inch) selected as a function of the open first side dimension of the housing 42 and of the diameter of the metering roller 20 which mates with the open first side, such that the sealing member 68 properly seals the chamber 44.
  • the reverse angle doctor blade 62 may be formed of steel or plastic and in general have a width of approximately 2,54 cm (1 inch) and a thickness in the range of approximately 0,0102 to 0,0254 cm (0.004 to 0.01 inch), if steel, and 0,1016 to 0,1524 cm (0.04 to 0.06 inch), if plastic.
  • FIG. 6 the housing 42 is attached to a support 80 which is pivotable about axis 82 and thus provides an open servicing position and a closed operating position.
  • the housing 42, as well as metering roller 20, are shown in the open servicing position in FIGS. 2 and 3, FIG. 2 being a plan view and FIG. 3 being an elevation view.
  • the printing fluid input apparatus further includes at least one inlet means 102 in the housing 42 for inputting printing fluid into the chamber 44 and at least one outlet means 104 in the housing 42 for outputting printing fluid from the chamber 44. Since the chamber 44 is sealed by the metering roller 20, the first and second end seal assemblies 48 and 50, the reverse angle doctor blade 62 and the sealing member 68, it is thus possible to keep the printing fluid under a predetermined pressure. In the preferred embodiment, as will be discussed below, a circulating system is used to pump the printing fluid through the housing 42. It is an important feature of the present invention that, since the printing fluid is under pressure, the printing fluid circulation system is totally independent of the force of gravity as opposed to prior art systems that rely on the printing fluid falling into a reservoir or catch pan.
  • the housing 42 can be located anywhere around the circumference the metering roller 20. This has significant and important advantages in the art of keyless lithographic printing press design. It allows for printing couples of a press to be inverted thereby shorting the length of the paper path between the couples, as well as, providing savings in space and materials of construction. This freedom to locate the housing 42 anywhere around the circumference of the metering roller 20 provides a degree of freedom in design of the printing press not found in prior art keyless printing presses.
  • the housing 42 can be designed to extend the full axial length of the surface 40 of the metering roller 20 or to extend only over a portion of the surface 40.
  • a number of housings, each less than full press width, can be located on one metering roller.
  • the housing 42 can be structured to wrap around the circumference of the metering roller 20 to greater or lesser extents depending upon the criteria of the press being design.
  • each of the end seal assemblies 48 and 50 shown in FIGS. 2 and 3 has a seal 90 which is supported by a seal cap 92.
  • the seal cap 92 is attached to an end of the housing 42, more specifically a seal cap assembly is attached to each end of the housing 42.
  • the present invention can include a gage assembly 94, as shown in FIGS. 7, 8 and 9, which engages the housing 42 with a locating pin 96 when the housing 42 is pivoted into the closed operating position for accurate positioning of the housing 42 relative to the metering roller 20, see FIG. 6.
  • the gage assemblies 94 are located adjacent the first and second ends 32 and 34 of the metering roller 20.
  • the gage assembly 94 has first and second sections 81, 83 which surround the ends 32, 34 of the metering roller 20.
  • a means 100 for pressurizing with the printing fluid the chamber 44 in the housing 42 is connected to the housing 42 via the inlet means 102 and the outlet means 104 on the housing 42.
  • the means 100 for pressurizing is a circulating system having a pump 106 with an output 108 and an input 110.
  • the output 108 of the pump 106 is connected to a pressure regulating check valve 111 and to the inlet means 102 of the housing 42.
  • the input 110 of the pump 106 is connected to an printing fluid reservoir 112 which is also connected to the outlet means 104 of the housing 42.
  • the pressure regulating check valve 111 is also connected to the printing fluid reservoir 112.
  • the pump 106 is driven by a constant speed drive motor 114 which is connected to press/unit controls 116 of the printing press.
  • the press/unit controls 116 may also receive signals from a sensor 118 mounted in the housing 42 for sensing the pressure of the printing fluid in the chamber 44 of the housing 42.
  • a pressure of 27,579 ⁇ 103 - 41,3686 ⁇ 103 Pa (4-6 psi) is maintained in the chamber 44 to enable smooth consistent printing fluid input to metering roller 20.
  • the pressure regulating check valve 111 functions to set the pressure of 27,579 ⁇ 103 - 41,3686 ⁇ 103 Pa (4-6 psi) in the chamber 44 and allows a portion of the printing fluid to flow back into the printing fluid reservoir 112, as necessary.
  • FIG. 13 depicts an alternative means 100 for pressurizing the chamber 44 wherein the pump 106 is driven by a motor 120 which is operated at a speed proportional to the speed of the printing press via variable speed drive 122.
  • the output 108 of the pump 106 is connected to the inlet means 102 of the housing 42 and the outlet means 104 of the housing 42 is connected to the printing fluid reservoir 112.
  • the input 110 of the pump is also connected to the printing fluid reservoir 112.
  • Various means can be used to add fresh replacement ink to the printing fluid reservoir 112 in either the FIG. 12 or FIG. 13 embodiments as needed.
  • the means can include solenoid valve 124 which is connected to a press/unit controller 126, the press/unit controller 126 receiving a signal from a printing fluid level sensor 128 connected to the printing fluid reservoir 112. It is a novel feature of the present invention that the printing fluid reservoir 112 can be located at any position relative to the chamber 44, higher or lower than the chamber 44, since the printing fluid flow is regulated by internal pressure rather than by the force of gravity.
  • the present invention can include a means for controlling the temperature of the printing fluid in the chamber 44 of the housing 42.
  • the means for controlling the temperature can be connected directly to the housing 42 or can be connected to the printing fluid reservoir 112.
  • the means for controlling the temperature can utilize resistance element strip heaters affixed to the housing 42 (for example, a Chromalox No. SL0515 flexible resistive element heater).
  • a Chromalox No. SL0515 flexible resistive element heater for example, a Chromalox No. SL0515 flexible resistive element heater.
  • an immersion heater such as Chromalox No. ARMTO-2155T2 can be used.
  • the present invention overcomes a number of problems, difficulties and restrictions in prior art keyless lithographic printing systems.
  • the pan and pan roller of the cited prior art (US-A-4,690,055) are replaced by a smaller and less complicated housing that together with the metering roller surface form a completely enclosed housing.
  • the inks selected for use in the present invention preferably have low values of viscosity at low rates of shear so that the printing fluid flows readily as compared to conventional lithographic inks.
  • An ink having this property readily flows into and, subsequent to doctor blade metering as herein practiced, out of the cells or interstices in the surface of the rapidly rotating metering roller 20 as it moves past the pressurized slowly circulating printing fluid in chamber 44.
  • the ink can be formulated to have good printing fluid transfer properties in the inking train of rollers and yet have any of a wide range of viscosity values at low shear rates, the formulation being dependent upon the configuration of the various rollers and cylinders used in a particular printing press.
  • This capability is not possible with prior art pan roller printing fluid input systems as the amount of fluid input to the metering roller is dependent upon the pan roller force and not on the printing fluid's mobility.
  • the paper web 12, blanket cylinder 10, plate cylinder 15, form rollers 16, dampening system 14 and oleophilic inking drum 11 are all configured substantially parallel axially and are more-or-less standard elements in the practice of lithographic printing.
  • only one transfer roller 13 is required to convey the ink metered by the coacting metering roller 20 and blade 18 to the oleophilic inking drum 11 thence by means of form rollers 16; plate cylinder 15, and blanket cylinder 10 to the paper 12 traveling as indicated by the directional arrow.
  • the present invention provides and requires, in addition to the first transfer roller 13 a second transfer roller 17 for reasons hereinafter explained.
  • the capacities of the input and circulation means 30 for supplying printing fluid are manufactured to be less than about 18,927 liters (five gallons) of ink or printing fluid.
  • Other combinations of ink input systems and dampening systems can be visualized by those skilled in the art based on the teachings of this disclosure, without departing from its general intent.
  • an auxiliary transfer roller 213 can be utilized in rotational contact with the inking drum 11.
  • the auxiliary transfer roller 213 transfers printing fluid to an auxiliary inking drum 211.
  • a further auxiliary form roller 216 is in rotational contact with the auxiliary inking drum 211 and the plate cylinder 15.
  • Other variations of auxiliary rollers, drums and cylinders are possible for use with the present invention.
  • FIG. 18a represents in general the prior art roller configuration technology of U.S. Patent 4,690,055.
  • FIG. 18b is similar but with pan roller 21 placed out of contact with the metering roller 20.
  • FIGS. 18c, 18d represent similar keyless press roller configurations without a pan roller but with an added rider roller 29 in contact with metering roller 20.
  • FIG. 18e represents a press system having a second transfer roller 17 according to the present invention. All elements 10, 12, 15, 16 and 11 remained identical in the FIGS. 18a-18e configurations while these systems were evaluated for runnability and printability. All of them conveyed ink reasonably well to the paper substrate being printed. However, configurations using only one transfer roller 13 and no pan roller 21, namely the configurations of FIGS.
  • the frictionally driven, press speed, second transfer roller of the present invention avoids, the necessity for pressure indented contact of the metering roller with any inking roller operating at significantly different surface speed than the metering roller itself.
  • We have found the useful lifetimes of the previously-disclosed, advantageous, hard, oleophilic, hydrophobic ink metering rollers may thereby be increased two-fold to ten-fold over that when the separately-driven pan roller technology of US-A-4,690,055 is employed.
  • a slow-moving ink-input pan-roller riding against the press-speed celled metering roller of the prior art is not the only configuration that provides the process functions necessary to assure minimum format dependence of optical density when printing with a keyless lithographic printing press.
  • the slow-moving pan roller can be replaced by a second, press-speed transfer roller as herein disclosed and thereby obtain fully equivalent printed quality, while providing the new advantages of less circulating volume of printing fluid, smaller overall inker dimensions, less wear of the celled metering roller during printing operations and the opportunity to use any of several printing fluid input devices.

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  1. Zonenschraubenloses Drucksystem für eine zonenschraubenlose Lithographiedruckerpresse, die einen Drucktuchzylinder (10) und einen Plattenzylinder (15) mit darauf angebrachter Druckplatte aufweist, enthaltend:
    eine Einrichtung (14) für die Zufuhr von Befeuchtungswasser zu dem Plattenzylinder (15);
    wenigstens eine Auftragswalze (16), die den Plattenzylinder (15) drehend berührt;
    eine Farbtrommel (11), welche die Auftragswalze (16) drehend berührt;
    eine erste Übertragungswalze (13), welche die Farbtrommel (11) drehend berührt;
    eine Dosierwalze (20) mit wenigstens einer oleophilen und hydrophoben Oberfläche, die eine Druckflüssigkeitsmenge aufnehmen kann, wobei die Dosierwalze (20) die erste Übertragungswalze (13) drehend berührt; und
    eine Einrichtung (30) für die Zufuhr von Druckflüssigkeit zu der Dosierwalze (20);
    dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß das zonenschraubenlose Drucksystem zusätzlich wenigstens eine zweite Übertragungswalze (13) enthält, welche die Farbtrommel (11) drehend berührt, daß die Dosierwalze (20) die erste und die wenigstens einmal vorhandene zweite Übertragungswalze (13) drehend berührt und daß die Einrichtung (30) für die Zufuhr von Druckflüssigkeit ein Farbzufuhrsystem enthält, welches keine Tauchwalze verwendet.
  2. Zonenschraubenloses Drucksystem nach Anspruch 1, bei dem die erste und die zweite Übertragungswalze (13) durch Reibung wenigstens von der Dosierwalze angetrieben sind.
  3. Zonenschraubenloses Drucksystem nach Anspruch 1, bei dem sich, wenn sich die Dosierwalze (20) im Druckbetrieb dreht, die erste und die zweite Übertragungswalze (13) mit einer Oberflächengeschwindigkeit drehen, die im wesentlichen gleich der Oberflächengeschwindigkeit der Dosierwalze (20) ist.
  4. Zonenschraubenloses Drucksystem nach Anspruch 1, bei welchem die erste und die zweite Übertragungswalze (13) wenigstens von der Dosierwalze (20) angetrieben werden und eine Oberflächengeschwindigkeit haben, die im wesentlichen gleich der Oberflächengeschwindigkeit der Dosierwalze (20) ist.
  5. Zonenschraubenloses Drucksystem nach Anspruch 1 oder Anspruch 4, bei dem die Einrichtung (14) für die Zufuhr von Befeuchtungswasser zu dem Plattenzylinder (15) wenigstens eine Befeuchtungswalze (19) aufweist, welche den Plattenzylinder (15) drehend berührt.
  6. Zonenschraubenloses Drucksystem nach Anspruch 1 oder Anspruch 4, bei dem die Einrichtung (14) für die Zufuhr von Befeuchtungswasser zu dem Plattenzylinder (15) wenigstens eine Befeuchtungswalze (19) aufweist, welche die Farbtrommel (11) drehend berührt, wodurch die Farbtrommel (11) das Befeuchtungswasser von der Befeuchtungswalze (19) über die Auftragswalze (16) zu dem Plattenzylinder (15) überträgt.
  7. Zonenschraubenloses Drucksystem nach Anspruch 1 oder Anspruch 4, bei dem die Einrichtung (30) für die Zufuhr von Druckflüssigkeit ein unterschlächtiges Farbsystem ist, welches Druckflüssigkeit auf die Dosierwalze (20) überträgt.
  8. Zonenschraubenloses Drucksystem nach Anspruch 1 oder Anspruch 4, bei dem die Einrichtung (30) für die Zufuhr von Druckflüssigkeit ein Einspritzsystem ist, welches der Dosierwalze (20) Druckflüssigkeit zuführt.
  9. Zonenschraubenloses Drucksystem nach Anspruch 1 oder Anspruch 4, bei dem die Einrichtung (30) für die Zufuhr von Druckflüssigkeit ein Schlitzverteilersystem ist, welches der Dosierwalze (20) Druckflüssigkeit zuführt.
  10. Zonenschraubenloses Drucksystem nach Anspruch 1 oder Anspruch 4, bei dem die Einrichtung (30) für die Zufuhr von Druckflüssigkeit ein Umlaufsystem mit unter Druck gesetzter Druckflüssigkeit ist, welches die Dosierwalze (20) mit Druckflüssigkeit versorgt.
  11. Zonenschraubenloses Drucksystem für eine zonenschraubenlose Lithographiedruckerpresse, die wenigstens eine Farbtrommel (11) und eine Dosierwalze (20) aufweist, welche wenigstens eine oleophile und hydrophobe Oberfläche hat, die eine Druckflüssigkeitsmenge zurückhalten kann, enthaltend:
    wenigstens eine Übertragungswalze (13), welche die Farbtrommel (11) und die Dosierwalze (20) drehend berührt, wobei die Übertragungswalze (13) während des Betriebs der Druckerpresse wenigstens die Druckflüssigkeit von der Dosierwalze (20) zu der Farbtrommel (11) fördert; und
    eine Einrichtung (30) für die Zufuhr von Druckflüssigkeit zu der Dosierwalze (20);
    dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß das zonenschraubenlose Drucksystem mehrere Übertragungswalzen (13) enthält, welche die Farbtrommel (11) und die Dosierwalze (20) drehend berühren, wobei die mehreren Übertragungswalzen (13) während des Betriebs der Druckerpresse wenigstens die Druckflüssigkeit von der Dosierwalze (20) zu der Farbtrommel (11) fördern, und daß die Einrichtung (30) für die Zufuhr von Druckflüssigkeit ein Farbzufuhrsystem enthält, welches keine Tauchwalze verwendet.
  12. Zonenschraubenloses Drucksystem nach Anspruch 11, bei dem die mehreren Übertragungswalzen (13) eine erste und eine zweite Übertragungswalze (13) enthalten.
  13. Zonenschraubenloses Drucksystem nach Anspruch 11, bei dem die mehreren Übertragungswalzen (13) durch Reibung wenigstens von der Dosierwalze (20) angetrieben sind.
  14. Zonenschraubenloses Drucksystem nach Anspruch 11, bei dem sich, wenn sich die Dosierwalze (20) im Druckbetrieb dreht, die mehreren Übertragungswalzen (13) mit einer Oberflächengeschwindigkeit drehen, die im wesentlichen gleich der Oberflächengeschwindigkeit der Dosierwalze (20) ist.
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