EP2139682B1 - Tiefdruckvorrichtung - Google Patents

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EP2139682B1
EP2139682B1 EP08724295A EP08724295A EP2139682B1 EP 2139682 B1 EP2139682 B1 EP 2139682B1 EP 08724295 A EP08724295 A EP 08724295A EP 08724295 A EP08724295 A EP 08724295A EP 2139682 B1 EP2139682 B1 EP 2139682B1
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
    • B41F—PRINTING MACHINES OR PRESSES
    • B41F9/00—Rotary intaglio printing presses
    • B41F9/02—Rotary intaglio printing presses for multicolour printing
    • B41F9/023—Web printing presses
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
    • B41F—PRINTING MACHINES OR PRESSES
    • B41F13/00—Common details of rotary presses or machines
    • B41F13/08—Cylinders
    • B41F13/10—Forme cylinders
    • B41F13/11—Gravure cylinders
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
    • B41F—PRINTING MACHINES OR PRESSES
    • B41F9/00—Rotary intaglio printing presses
    • B41F9/003—Web printing presses
    • B41F9/005—Printing on two sides of the same web
    • B41F9/007—Printing on two sides of the same web with the same printing cylinder
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
    • B41C—PROCESSES FOR THE MANUFACTURE OR REPRODUCTION OF PRINTING SURFACES
    • B41C1/00—Forme preparation
    • B41C1/02—Engraving; Heads therefor
    • B41C1/04—Engraving; Heads therefor using heads controlled by an electric information signal
    • B41C1/05—Heat-generating engraving heads, e.g. laser beam, electron beam

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  • the present invention is related to a double ender rotogravure printing apparatus according to the pre-characterizing portion of claim 1.
  • GB 01977 discloses an arrangement where two printing units, each comprising an intaglio cylinder, are put in parallel to each other. These known printing units are printing on the whole width of the paper and not twice on half of the width of the paper as is the case at an Double Ender.
  • GB 2102 737 discloses a web-fed rotary printing machine, and a method for continuous printing where the part-width web can be printed continuously along its length, i.e. without interruptions (gaps) in the printed matter which is typical for web-offset printing.
  • a gravure printing cylinder has no gaps and the web may be printed continuously along its length without any interruptions.
  • the known engraving apparatuses are used in conjunction with the current standard eight unit publication rotogravure apparatuses of various widths from the above mentioned manufacturers. Since the middle of the 1990's, standard eight unit publication rotogravure apparatus have been automated and with much higher speeds than before, and the apparatuses from these two companies have similar performance. In 2007, the situation has developed so that due to the long production schedules of producing eight cylinders (each such cylinder is to be mounted in each one of the units of the printing apparatus) the minimum average achievable print run and number of pages have increased substantially since the beginning of the 1990's, leaving the market for smaller and medium print runs to competing printing technologies. The above mentioned apparatuses can not, due to economical and technical constraints, be used for short runs.
  • the object of the invention is to provide a solution overcoming the drawback of the known gravure printing technology in printing short runs and with signatures containing 16 to 64 pages and to decrease the average minimum print runs with signatures containing 16 up to 64 pages which are technically and economically feasible to achieve when using the rotogravure printing method.
  • Another object of the invention is to provide a solution which is highly automated as to its function which minimizes the need for staffing.
  • the minimum average print runs (for 32-48-64 pages) is above 500 000 copies.
  • the invention makes it feasible to substantially reduce the minimum average print run (well below 100 000 copies of products containing 16-64 pages in A4 format), and make rotogravure printing competitive on such products and markets where such products are in demand.
  • To economically produce such products (16-64 pages) with low average print runs has not been technically and economically feasible since the end of 1970's, when the previous manual etching methods were replaced by mechanical engraving. These methods were analogue and can not be used today when all data received from customers is digital for manufacture of engraved cylinders. In the future, when faster laser technology is available even shorter runs will be possible to print - technically as well as economically.
  • the cylinders of the double ender printing apparatus has a width of 130-380 cm with four units allowing the production of products from 16 to 64 pages in four colours on each side of the printed paper substrate.
  • the said direct laser engraved cylinders are preferred, allowing the lowest average print runs, alternatively also mechanical engraved cylinders may be used.
  • the said apparatus according to invention has the same performance as a standard eight unit rotogravure printing apparatus.
  • Figs. 1-2 illustrates a first embodiment of a double ender rotogravure printing apparatus 1 according to the invention.
  • the double ender printing apparatus 1 comprises a folder 2, printing units 3, a turning bar device 4, an unwinder 5, a main drive 6 for the printing units 3 and devices 7 for loading/unloading of cylinders 8 into the printing units 3.
  • the double ender printing apparatus 1 consists of five units, but at least four must be used in such an apparatus, and uses a continuous paper web 9 having two main printing passes which are substantially parallel to each other and each extends over a part of each half of each cylinder 8.
  • the cylinder 8 is used to print the recto side, then the web 9 is turned twice by means of the turning bars 4 to print the verso side (wiederdruck) on the other half of the cylinder 8.
  • the proposed rotogravure printing apparatus 1 is designed only for double ender printing.
  • Fig. 3 shows a second embodiment of a double ender apparatus 20 according to the invention comprising a folder 21, four printing units (not shown), turning bars 22, an unwinder 23, a main drive (not shown) for the printing units and devices (not shown) for loading/unloading of cylinders 24a, 24 into the printing units.
  • the apparatus has an automated device for webbing up the web 25.
  • the continuous paper web 25 starts at the unwinder 23 and runs to the folder 21 of the double ender apparatus 20 and passes through four printing units (print cylinder 24) to print the recto side 25a of the web 25; the web 25 is then turned twice 45 degrees at the turning bars 22. The web 25 is then turned upside down and goes thereafter back to the first cylinder 24a. Further, the web 25 passes through the four printing units (print cylinders 24, 24a) to print the verso side 25b "wieder horr" of the paper web 25 and into the folder 21, to the right in Fig. 3 .
  • the paper web 25 can be moved independently in lateral and longitudinal directions shown by means of arrows 26 and 27, respectively, when passing through each printing unit in recto "detecting” and verso "wieder".
  • the fifth unit could be used for lacquer (printing covers for magazines), any special ink demanded or to produce very few pages (8-16 pages) for versioning/zoning editions (when the text cylinders for black text needs to be changed very quickly).
  • Figure 4 shows a metal surface 40 of cylinders 8 and 24a, 24 of the double ender rotogravure printing apparatuses 1 and 20, respectively.
  • the metal surface 40 of cylinders 8, 24a, 24 is engraved in a laser engraving apparatus (not shown) with high speed and producing at least two rotogravure printing cylinders per hour.
  • the laser engraving apparatus engraves cavities (cells) 41 which are generated on the metal surface 40 for rotogravure printing in the double ender printing apparatuses 1 and 20.
  • the structure of the metal surface 40 which is preferably used generates "Superhalfautotypical" cavities (cells) 42, which allows printing on many different paper substrates.
  • double ender rotogravure printing apparatus 1 and 20 is not limited to the above described embodiments, but could be modified within the scope of the appended claims.

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  1. Eine Druckmaschine mit Rotationstiefdruck, bestehend aus einem Bandlaufwerk (5), mindestens vier Druckwerken (3, 24 a, 24), jedes mit einem Zylinder (8), einer kontinuierlichen Bahn für das Papierband (9) und einem Gerät (1, 20) für das Falzen (2, 21), dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass das Gerät ein Rotationstiefdruckgerät mit zwei Enden ist, das zwei Hauptdruckelementen (25 a, 25 b) hat, die sich jeweils hauptsächlich parallel zueinander erstreckt, wobei jedes Druckwerk (3, 24 a, 24) sich über einem Teil der genannten Hauptdruckelemente (25 a, 25 b) des genannten Bands (25) erstreckt, wobei jedes Hauptdruckelement (25 a, 25 b) dem Druck auf jedem seitenverschiedenen Druckzylinder (8) angeordnet ist, und dass der Druckzylinder (8) mittels des Geräts für direkten Hochgeschwindigkeitslaser (Direct Engraving laser) graviert wird, das mindestens zwei Druckzylinder mit Rotationstiefdruck pro Stunde produziert .
  2. Maschine nach Anspruch 1, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass jeder Zylinder 130 bis 180 cm, vorzugsweise etwa 250 bis 270 cm, breit ist.
  3. Maschine nach Anspruch 1, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass jedes Element (25 a, 25 b) der genannten Druckbahn (25) des Bandes mit einer separaten Vorrichtung versehen ist, um das genannte Band unabhängig zu führen, wenn auf der Vorderseite "richtig" und auf der Rückseite "erneut" gedruckt wird.
  4. Maschine nach Anspruch 1, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass diese mindestens vier Druckeinheiten (3) oder eine oder zwei zusätzliche Druckeinheiten (3) für spezielle Produkte hat.
  5. Maschine nach Anspruch 1, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass jede Einheit (3) eine Vorrichtung (7) für das automatisierte Laden/Entladen der genannten Tiefdruckzylinder (8) hat.
  6. Maschine nach Anspruch 1, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass die genannte Maschine mit einer Ausrüstung versehen sein muss, um das Papierband (25) automatisch anzufügen.
  7. Maschine nach Anspruch 1, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass jeder Druckzylinder (8) mit in der Oberfläche des Metalls (40) vorgesehenen Hohlräumen 41 (cells) graviert wird.
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SE0700985A SE531975C2 (sv) 2007-04-23 2007-04-23 Anordning för tryckning i djuptryck
PCT/SE2008/050349 WO2008130309A1 (en) 2007-04-23 2008-03-27 Rotogravure printing apparatus

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