EP3134263B2 - Produktionslinie zur herstellung von druckprodukten - Google Patents

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EP3134263B2
EP3134263B2 EP15710449.8A EP15710449A EP3134263B2 EP 3134263 B2 EP3134263 B2 EP 3134263B2 EP 15710449 A EP15710449 A EP 15710449A EP 3134263 B2 EP3134263 B2 EP 3134263B2
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Michael Held
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
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  • the invention relates to a production line with a printing press and a further processing section downstream of the printing press in the printing material path, according to the preamble of claim 1.
  • a printing machine which has at least one printing unit and at least one print head designed as an inkjet print head.
  • the EP 2 305 466 A1 discloses a format-variable web-fed printing machine which, in one embodiment, has an inkjet device.
  • the last printing unit or units is followed in the printing material path by further processing with a turning device, if necessary, at least one cutting device and formers.
  • Both the pressure units and at least one actuating means of the at least one cutting device are in signal connection with a control device for their activation.
  • Further processing includes e.g. B. several in the direction of a paper web in series or parallel to each other arranged folding devices.
  • the DE 100 60 758 A1 relates to a cutting device in a folder of a web-fed rotary printing press, which is designed for cutting signatures with variable section lengths.
  • the DE 103 25 362 A1 relates to a method and apparatus for indirect digital printing of images on webs. After printing, the printed web can be wound up or alternatively processed further using a cross cutter.
  • the EP 1 911 583 A1 relates to a method for producing a printed product produced using a printing forme for a high-performance printing process, which is individualized in at least two subsequent steps.
  • EP 1 733 988 A1 discloses a method and a device for the production of newspapers, wherein in one embodiment of a cross-cutting device, a collecting station, a 90° change in the direction of movement on a subsequent conveyor device, a cross-folding device, a longitudinal folding device, a longitudinal stapling device and a second collecting station for nesting beforehand are downstream formed folders follow.
  • the DE 10 2013 203 469 B3 relates to a folder in which a cross-cutting device is followed downstream by a first collecting cylinder and a second collecting cylinder and the latter is followed by a folding jaw cylinder.
  • the second collecting cylinder can work together with a stitching cylinder.
  • a web with print images printed by a digital printing machine can be fed to the folder.
  • a printing press for format-variable printing in particular a digital printing press
  • a cross-cutting device in particular a collecting device
  • a cross-folding device comprising a folding jaw cylinder and a collator for stacking sections.
  • these can be retracted in a controlled manner.
  • a broadsheet production it is possible to use a web with a width of two or more page heights, with such a web being cut lengthwise in a longitudinal folding device and the partial webs being placed one on top of the other before they are cut crosswise into signatures.
  • the DE 36 28 411 A1 relates to a variable folder with a collecting cylinder and a jaw cylinder.
  • the DE 10 2012 208 840 A1 relates to an inkjet printing machine with a roll unwinding device, two inkjet printing units and post-processing.
  • the DE 10 2012 200 877 A1 discloses a web-fed printing press with a longitudinal stapling device for inline stapling arranged downstream of a collecting cylinder and a folding jaw cylinder.
  • the DE 10 2012 202 458 A1 relates to a stapling device in a web-fed printing press, in which case a multi-layer strand can be formed via one or more formers and this can be processed inline into products downstream after cross-cutting in a folder. If the printing press is designed to apply several copies to the web one after the other and the folder is equipped to carry out a collecting operation, then several strand sections can be collected one on top of the other before transverse folding.
  • the invention is based on the object of creating a production line with a printing press and a further processing section downstream of the printing press in the printing material path.
  • a production line comprises at least one printing press and a further processing section downstream of the printing press in the printing material path, with the printing press comprising at least one printing unit by means of which a web-shaped or sheet-shaped printing material can be printed on at least one of its sides in a printing process without a printing forme, and in Further processing section where the printing material can be processed into printed products.
  • the web or sheet-like printing material is on at least one of its sides - in contrast to z. B. only downstream impression of additional information - with printed images of printed pages of the product to be manufactured, for example in the relevant format, z. B. newspaper, tabloid, book or special format, printable printing process.
  • At least one transverse folding device and one collecting device with a collecting cylinder that can be operated in collecting mode are provided as the further processing stage.
  • the further processing section includes as part of an o. Production line in connection with an upstream printing machine that works without printing formes, in the guide path of a processing line through which the printing material is to pass, as a further processing stage, a first collecting device in the guide path, comprising a cylinder that can be operated in collecting mode, and downstream of this collecting device and upstream of a provided cross-folding device, a further collecting device as a further processing stage, by means of which bundles of printing material sections formed by means of the first collecting device can be collected to form a bundle stack directly or indirectly downstream of the first collecting device.
  • This is preferably designed as a rotating body, in particular as a collecting cylinder.
  • a device for connecting a plurality of layers in the guide path is assigned to or downstream of the first collecting device in such a way that it can be used to connect several or all of the printing material sections to be collected on top of one another in a bundle in the first collecting device before they are picked up by the second collecting device.
  • printed single-layer or multi-layer printing material sections present as printed sheets or as web sections, which follow one another directly or indirectly in the printing material flow, can be placed in a processing section of the further processing section to be traversed by the web sections - preferably on a cylinder that can be operated in collecting mode are combined into several in a bundle, several of these bundles are combined in the guide path directly or indirectly downstream of the combining to form a bundle joint, with this bundle joint in the guide path directly or indirectly downstream of the combining to form a bundle joint - based on a transport direction present on the input side - can be folded across. Due to the design according to the invention as a collecting cylinder, a uniform and therefore trouble-free movement is provided during collection. Due to the embodiment according to the invention with a device for connecting several layers, connected booklets can be collected one on top of the other and folded together.
  • printed single-layer or multi-layer sections present as printed sheets or web sections that follow one another directly or indirectly in the printing stream can be used in a processing line to be traversed by the printing material sheets or web sections of the further processing section individually or as a bundle - are folded transversely - based on a transport direction present on the input side, and the transversely folded intermediate products are collected one on top of the other downstream of the transverse folding by a collecting device to form a bundle of sections. Due to the preferred design as a collecting cylinder, a uniform and therefore trouble-free movement is provided during collection.
  • the further processing section comprises at least one further processing stage, in particular a combining device, through which two strands are to be guided towards one another before reaching a cross-cutting device, in particular in a printing material guide section upstream of the cross-cutting.
  • the further processing section in which printing material supplied or to be supplied on the input side can be processed into printed products, can have at least one collecting device and one related to the printing material path as further processing stages in the guide path of a processing section to be traversed by the printing material downstream cross folder include, through which upstream by at least one-time collection produced multi-page-wide intermediate products can be folded transversely with respect to the input-side transport direction of the transverse folding device.
  • a cutting device is preferably provided in the guide path downstream of the cross-folding device in such a way that it can cut upstream cross-folded, multi-page-wide intermediate products into several narrower intermediate or end products without having to go through a further folding process after the cross-folding.
  • a printing material present for example as a printing material web or in sheet form, can be used in at least one printing unit in a non-impact printing process without a printing forme, e.g. B. are continuously printed with, for example, at least two print pages side by side transverse to the transport direction, the z. B. at least two printed pages next to each other are fed to a further processing, the for example, two printed pages next to each other comprising printing material in the case of web-shaped training without folding them beforehand by a cross-cutting device first in z. B.
  • Printing material sections comprising two printed pages are cut one after the other, and the cross-cut web sections or printing material sections already present in sheet form are folded downstream individually or in groups of several as section bundles by a folding device comprising a folding jaw cylinder, transverse to the transport direction.
  • a folding device comprising a folding jaw cylinder, transverse to the transport direction.
  • the individually or as a collected and possibly stapled bundle of sections transversely folded, at least two printed pages next to each other having web sections are cut into printed products after the transverse folding, which viewed transversely to the transport direction z. B. only have the printed image of a printed page.
  • the further processing section can be used as such or as part of an above-mentioned production line in connection with an upstream printing machine, in particular one that works without a printing forme
  • in the guide path of the processing section to be traversed by the printing material comprise a diverting device as a further processing stage, through which several strands formed by printed webs and/or printed partial webs each consist of a - in Viewed projection in the horizontal plane - in the printing unit present conveying direction in the same - viewed in projection in the horizontal plane - this conveying direction angled by 90 ° are derivable.
  • At least one strand formed by a printed web and/or printed partial web can be moved from a conveying direction present in the printing unit - viewed in projection in the horizontal plane - to a conveying direction - viewed in projection in the horizontal plane - by 90° to this angled conveying direction, this discharged strand is fed individually or together with one or more other discharged strands directly or indirectly to a cross-cutting device and is cut there transversely into single-layer or multi-layer printing material sections, and finally these downstream with or without further processing in one or more Further processing stages are designed as products and / or commissioned.
  • a transverse stapling device which is set up and arranged or can be arranged in a printing material path in such a way that in the printing material flow directly and indirectly following sections of material to be stapled are stapled along a plurality of staple tracks running next to one another, at least two one based on the number and sequence of the stapling points to be provided per section or bundle in the transverse direction include stapling tools assigned to the same stapling track, by means of which stapling means can be introduced during a production run into at least two sections of material to be sewn directly or indirectly following one another, which are based on the number and sequence of the sections per section or bundles to be provided in the transverse direction are to be attributed to the same stitching track, but based on the specific lateral position in the respective stapled goods section to be stapled are not in the same alignment, but offset from one another.
  • a particularly advantageous production line comprises a printing press and a further processing section downstream of the printing press in the printing material path, with the printing press comprising at least one printing unit, by means of which a web-shaped or sheet-shaped printing material can be printed on at least one of its sides in a printing process without a printing forme with printed images of printed pages of a printed product to be produced .
  • a printed substrate can be processed to form the printed products, with the further processing section comprising a substrate guide path, via which the printing substrate is transferred under the influence of one or more further processing stages provided in the substrate guide path at an output in the form of single-layer or multi-layer substrate sections to a processing path that further processes the substrate sections, or as a further processing stage, the printing material guide path comprising at least one combination device in the guide path of at least two strands formed by webs or partial webs, through which the at least two strands can be guided one on top of the other to form a multi-layer strand.
  • the processing line comprises at least one collecting device, which has a collecting cylinder and through which single-layer or multi-layer printing material sections can be collected into a bundle or several bundles into a bundle joint, as well as a transverse folding device functionally downstream of the at least one collecting device, through which the at least one Collecting device leaving bundles or bundle joints based on the input-side transport direction can be folded transversely.
  • the collecting device comprises holding means designed as a gripper or group of grippers, and a drive controlling the movement of the grippers or group of grippers is designed mechanically independently of a drive driving the collecting device.
  • a particularly advantageous production line comprises a printing press and a further processing section downstream of the printing press in the printing material path, with the printing press comprising at least one printing unit, by which a web-shaped or sheet-shaped printing material is printed on at least one of its sides in a printing process without a printing forme with printed images of printed pages of a Printed products can be printed and the printed substrate can be processed into the printed products in the further processing section.
  • a printing material guide section included in the further processing section comprises at least one combining device, by means of which at least two strands can be guided one on top of the other to form a multi-layer strand, and a cross-cutting device for cross-cutting a single-layer or multi-layer strand.
  • a processing section following the printing material guide section comprises at least one collecting device and a downstream transverse folding device as further processing stages in the guide path of a processing section to be traversed, with a control device assigned to the further processing section being provided.
  • the control device as the control device to be assigned to the further processing section, is available both with an actuating or drive means for setting and/or presetting the further processing stage designed as a combining device and, in particular, for transmitting presetting data and/or dynamic data representing the collection sequence or the printing substrate feed a control means associated with the collecting device, in particular its drive for the holding means, in a signal connection.
  • a preferred configuration of the printing machine as a printing machine working in the non-impact process makes it possible to design each individual printed product individually. As a result, due to the savings in printing forms, small and very small runs of printed products can also be produced at low cost and/or—provided the printed products are processed appropriately—personalized printed products can be produced.
  • z. B. at least one transverse folding device for folding sections or section bundles
  • a large spectrum of products can already be produced inline.
  • a particularly large variability and variety can be achieved if, in addition to this, a stapling device, in particular a transverse stapling device and/or at least one longitudinal folding device is added.
  • a production line for the production of printed products comprises at least a first section, configured in particular as a printing press 001, in which web-type printing material 002, e.g. B. referred to as printing substrate web 002 or web 002 for short, or chunky, z. B. sheet or plate-shaped printing material 002, z. B. for both the sheet-shaped and the plate-shaped design as printing material sheet 002, or sheet 002 for short, can be printed and, if necessary, can be conditioned before and/or after printing and a second section downstream of printing press 001 in the direction of production, e.g. B. a receiving section 003, in which the printed printing material 002' is merely combined as a printed product into transportable containers or further processed into products P and possibly subsequently combined into a product container.
  • web-type printing material 002 e.g. B. referred to as printing substrate web 002 or web 002 for short, or chunky, z. B. sheet or plate-shaped printing
  • the first section of the production line embodied in particular as a printing press 001
  • the second section of the production line embodied in particular as a further processing section 003
  • a control and/or planning system 004 can be controlled via a control and/or planning system 004.
  • printing press 001 can be configured as any printing press designed for the industrial printing of printed products, for example a printing press 001 that operates based on a printing form, such as e.g. g. a printing press 001 operating according to a gravure printing process, a flexographic printing process, a printing press 001 operating according to the offset process or a combination of several of the processes mentioned.
  • a printing press 001 operating according to a gravure printing process, a flexographic printing process, a printing press 001 operating according to the offset process or a combination of several of the processes mentioned.
  • this is - possibly at least among other things - as a non-impact process, i. H. printing press 001 that operates without a printing forme.
  • the method without a printing forme can in principle be embodied as a direct method and/or inking printing substrate 002 without contact, or as an indirect method and/or inking printing substrate 002 with physical contact.
  • Printing press 001 is to be understood here as a machine that prints a printing material with a printing fluid.
  • printing fluid is used above and below to describe the fluids such as B. printing inks, paints, or pasty, a noticeable texture on the substrate justifying materials.
  • the expression "printing ink” should be understood in the sense of a liquid or at least free-flowing coloring fluid to be printed in the printing machine, which does not only refer to the colloquially known as "printing ink”.
  • B. toner includes.
  • the higher-viscosity colorants in particular also low-viscosity colorants, e.g. B. both the higher-viscosity printing inks and the so-called.
  • Inks are preferably solutions or dispersions of at least one colorant in at least one solvent. Examples of suitable solvents are water and/or organic solvents.
  • the low-viscosity printing inks also referred to as inks, preferably have no binder or relatively little binder, while the higher-viscosity printing inks preferably contain a relatively large amount of binder and more preferably other auxiliaries.
  • the colorants contained can be pigments and/or dyes, pigments being insoluble in the application medium, while dyes are soluble in the application medium.
  • the printed printing material 002 can be processed without further processing to form bundles of printed products, e.g. B. to stacks of lumpy, in particular sheet or plate-shaped, printed products or a large container of an intermediate product that has not yet been divided into further processing or usable units, e.g. g. web-type printing material 002′ printed to form rolls of a web-type printed product.
  • the second section comprises a storage device 700 embodied, for example, as a pile delivery, as a sheeter with an upstream cross cutter, or as a roll winder, to which the printed substrate 002' can be fed inline from the outlet of printing press 001 via a substrate guide path 500.
  • the printing material guide section 500 arranged upstream of the storage device 700 can comprise means for longitudinal cutting.
  • the printing substrate 002 provided by the first section can be fed - preferably "inline" - to a receiving section 003 embodied as further processing section 003, where it undergoes one or preferably more handling and/or processing stages 502; 503; 504; 506; 507; 508; 509; 511; 512; 513; 521; 523; 601; 602; 603; 604; 606; 607; 608; 609; 611; 612 can be treated and/or processed by appropriate handling and/or processing devices to form the printed product P to be produced.
  • printed product P should - unless explicitly or clearly implicitly related to a special training - be understood as a product P to be produced by the production line 001, which is both an end product for the end user, but also a z. B. as a section or book designated part of a number of such parts, z. B. sections or books, up and / or in each other comprehensive overall product or downstream or in an independent work step further to a final product and / or to supplement intermediate or partial product or stack of sheets can represent.
  • Inline further processing means further processing in time with the stream of printed printing material 002 supplied by printing press 001 and/or further processing following the preceding printing process without interruption in the material flow.
  • a print shop can include a printing system with one or more such production lines.
  • One or at least one common or at least one further processing section 003 that can be optionally coupled to a first and/or a second printing press 001 on the input side can be arranged downstream of a plurality of printing presses 001 of a printing system.
  • the first section of the production line embodied in particular as printing press 001
  • the second section embodied in particular as further processing section 003
  • Printing press 001 comprises, for example, at least one printing material template 100 and at least one printing unit 200; 400, to which the printing material 002 can be fed from the printing material template 100.
  • the at least one printing unit 200; 400 is preferably embodied as a printing unit 200 operating according to a non-impact method and/or comprises at least one printing unit 211 operating according to a non-impact method; 411.
  • the printing press 001 can only have one or more printing assemblies 200; 400 or, in one variant, optionally additionally include one or more printing units working according to a different printing process.
  • the printing unit 200 working according to a non-impact method; 400 or printing unit 211; 411 can be, for example, based on an electrophotographic process, based on an ionographic process, based on a magnetographic process, based on an inkjet process, based on a thermographic process or possibly based on one of the processes mentioned non-impact printing unit 200; 400 or printing unit 211; 411 to be executed.
  • the printing press 001 can also simultaneously print two or more according to different above-mentioned Non-impact printing units 200; 400 and/or printing units 211; 411 include.
  • At least one printing assembly 200; 400 and/or printing unit 211; 411 comprising printing machine 001, this is equipped with at least one printing assembly 200; 400 and/or printing unit 211; 411 trained.
  • the printing machine 001 can be embodied as a printing machine 001 that operates according to the inkjet or inkjet method, in particular as an inkjet printing machine 001—entirely or possibly in addition to other non-impact and/or printing form-based methods.
  • a printing assembly 200 that works or can be operated using the inkjet or inkjet method; 400 and/or printing unit 211; 411 with a printing system designed as an inkjet system is the imaging device 212; 412 by one or more printheads 212; 412, e.g. B. a group of at least transverse to the local movement and/or conveying direction F; F' of printing material 002, e.g. B. substrate transport direction F; F' or transport direction F for short; F' staggered printheads 212; 412, given that the or the plurality of at least transversely to the printing material transport direction F; F' comprise nozzles arranged side by side.
  • a print head 212; 412 may be provided.
  • the imaging device 212; 412 by the spatially resolving exposure device directed towards a photoconductor carrier with, for example, a large number of light sources and/or exposure points.
  • Targeted activation and deactivation of the imaging elements that are preferably arranged in large numbers (e.g. >50/cm, in particular >100/cm) next to one another in the transverse direction or, if necessary, are cyclically moved back and forth in the transverse direction, e.g. B. nozzles or light sources, the imaging device 212; 412 is in connection with a relative movement along the conveying direction F; F' between imaging device 212; 412 and printing material 002 can generate a print image.
  • the printing substrate 002 is at a maximum relative to the transport direction F; F' transverse width b D , e.g. B.
  • Print width b D printable can be configured independently of the maximum printing material width b002 max , it preferably corresponds essentially to this, for example with a deviation of z. B. at most ⁇ 50 mm, in particular at most ⁇ 30 mm.
  • the maximum material web width b002 max to be processed and thus the relevant nominal width corresponds to a width that is independent of the printed product format, e.g. B.
  • a product P that is to be produced frequently or even predominantly on the machine e.g. a so-called main product - an integer multiple in particular an even integer multiple of a side length I S running in the transverse direction of printing substrate 002; h S of a printed page of this product P in a main or nominal format F N given for this product P.
  • the maximum printing material width b002 is, for example, 760 mm ⁇ 30 mm.
  • the nominal width b N (D) can refer to the main or nominal format F N , e.g. B.
  • n 4 and / or 1,520 mm ⁇ 60 mm or more.
  • the printing machine 001 or the printing unit 200; 400 can be printed with printing substrate 002 with a width b002 that is smaller than the maximum material web width b002 max and/or a smaller number than the number n and / or with a side length I S be and/or are operated.
  • printing press 001 can be used as a lumpy, in particular sheet-form, printing substrate 002, e.g. B.
  • it is embodied as a printing press 001 that processes web-type printing material 002, in particular as a web-type printing material 002 of an inkjet or inkjet printing machine 001.
  • sheet-like printing material 002 also refers to printing material sheets 002 or flat printing material 002 of greater thickness, which are often also referred to as “sheets” or “plates”.
  • drying-supporting agent i. H. a drying aid 301, e.g. B. a dryer 301, provided, which or which in the printing material path within the printing unit 200; 400 itself or in a dryer unit 300 provided separately in the printing material path.
  • the viewed in projection in the horizontal plane in the printing unit 200; 400 present conveying direction F defines, for example, a longitudinal machine axis of printing press 001, along which printing substrate 002 is moved entirely or at least predominantly, as far as the projection in the horizontal plane is concerned, through printing press 001.
  • the guideways or route sections are each connected via one or more conveying and/or guiding devices 501, e.g. B. in the case of sheet-shaped printing material 002' as belt systems and in particular in the case of web-shaped printing material 002' as rollers 501 or rods 501, embodied handling means 501.
  • conveying and/or guiding devices 501 e.g. B. in the case of sheet-shaped printing material 002' as belt systems and in particular in the case of web-shaped printing material 002' as rollers 501 or rods 501.
  • the supply of printing material 002′ to the entrance to the processing section 600 via the printing material guide section 500 can in principle be provided without any further handling and/or processing, or, in the case of web-shaped printing material 002′, can only comprise cross-cutting.
  • the strand present as web 002', partial web or bundle of strands is divided into single-layer or multi-layer sections 002',k, e.g. B. single or multi-layer strand sections 002 ', k, cut crosswise.
  • These sections 002',k form intermediate products 002',k, which are processed in one or more downstream further processing stages 601; 602; 603; 604; 606; 607; 608; 609; 611; 612 are or can be processed into the product P.
  • printing material sheet 002; 002' formed printing material 002; 002' are or will be the single-layer or multi-layer sections 002',k to be processed, for example, formed by printed sheets of printing material 002',k that are guided one on top of the other.
  • These sheets 002',k can each have a printed section a,i, e.g. B. printing section a,i.
  • input side i.
  • printing substrate 002' can be passed through one or more further processing stages 502; 503; 504; 506; 507; 508; 509; 511; 512; 513 mechanically (e.g. by perforating, grooving and/or wrapping) and/or chemically (e.g. by applying fabric) and/or physically (e.g. by drying and /or irradiation) conditioned and/or prefabricated with regard to the dimensions (e.g. by lengthwise and/or cross cutting) and/or are and/or are made one on top of the other in several layers.
  • further processing stages 502; 503; 504; 506; 507; 508; 509; 511; 512; 513 mechanically (e.g. by perforating, grooving and/or wrapping) and/or chemically (e.g. by applying fabric) and/or physically (e.g. by drying and /or irradiation) conditioned and/or prefabricated with regard to the dimensions (e.g. by
  • the printing substrate guide section 500 is embodied, for example, as a ribbon guiding and/or forming section 500, in which printing substrate 002' is in web form until it enters the collecting and/or Folded section 600 out and, if necessary, cut lengthwise on the way there and/or combined into a bundle of strands.
  • At least one longitudinal and/or at least one transverse cutting and/or by at least once collecting individual sections 002',k or already pre-collected and possibly stapled intermediate products 617; 617' 619, which depending on the arrangement in the printing material path of further processing section 003 as bundles 617; 617' of sections 002',k (section bundles 617; 617') or as a bundle joint 619 of section bundles 617; 617' or as transversely folded intermediate products 616, can be processed further to form printed products P and then, if necessary, combined and/or commissioned in a storage device 700 to be delivered.
  • the further processing section 003 can be designed in different, particularly advantageous versions and expansion stages.
  • one preferred embodiment of further processing section 003 in particular the printing material guide section 500, at least one as a handling stage 502; 503; 504, in particular as a combining device 502; 503; 504, formed further processing stage 502; 503; 504 are provided, through which web or sheet-shaped printing material 002', which is guided simultaneously on two different guide paths at least in the meantime, is to be combined in the course of the downstream conveying, in particular to be guided on top of each other, and downstream of the merging on a guide path that is different from these two guide paths, are conveyed further together or can become.
  • a combining device 502; 503; 504 at least two conveying paths for sheets of printing material 002' may be provided, which converge at a merging point and thus bring together or combine the sheets 002' conveyed here in the course of the downstream conveying.
  • a printing substrate 002' provided on the input side in the form of a web in particular a printing substrate 002' provided inline by a web-processing printing press 001, at least one combining device 502; 503; 504 in the guide path of at least two strands 002' formed by webs 002' or partial webs 002', through which the at least two strands 002' can be guided one on top of the other to form a multi-layer strand.
  • the merge facility 502 comprises, for example, two guide sections upstream of the joining point, on which at least two strands 002', which can be formed, for example, by different webs 002' or by partial webs 002' of the same web or two different longitudinally cut webs 002', are to be guided towards one another by at least one of the strands on the guide section in question undergoes a change in the conveying direction as a result of deflection and/or a change in the orientation of the plane of the web as a result of twisting about the longitudinal axis of the web.
  • the at least one combiner 502; 503; 504 can be used, for example, as a turning device 502 with at least two turning bars that are or are to be circulated through the same web 002' for the lateral displacement of a strand, or as a diverting device 503, e.g. B. a so-called magazine turner bar or "ribbon deck” 503, with several rectified turner bars, for the lateral 90° deflection of several strands 002'; 002'. 1; 002'.2 or as a former 504 from e.g. B. the direction of the longitudinal axis of the machine for hitting one another of two already divided or still undivided web parts or web strips, in particular web halves, can be provided.
  • a turning device 502 with at least two turning bars that are or are to be circulated through the same web 002' for the lateral displacement of a strand
  • a diverting device 503 e.g. B. a so-called magazine turner
  • the web parts or strips are to be understood as meaning parts of a web 002 that run lengthwise next to one another but have not (yet) been severed. These could, for example, be separated from one another later by a longitudinal cut or folded onto one another by longitudinal folding.
  • the multi-layer sections represent intermediate products 002',k, which are processed in one or more downstream processing stages 601; 602; 603; 604; 606; 607; 608; 609; 611; 612 are or can be processed into the product P.
  • the transverse cutting device 513 that may be provided is designed with a rotating knife cylinder, which interacts via the web 002' with the counter knife of either a counter knife cylinder that is also rotating or a cutter bar that is fixed to the frame.
  • the blade cylinder is or can be driven by a drive means with a non-uniform rotational movement and/or with an angular speed that varies within one revolution.
  • the cross cutter 513 can be configured with a maximum processing width, e.g. B. cutting width, given nominal width b N (W) to accommodate and cut single- or multi-layer sections 002',k with a width up to this nominal width b N (W).
  • a maximum processing width e.g. B. cutting width, given nominal width b N (W) to accommodate and cut single- or multi-layer sections 002',k with a width up to this nominal width b N (W).
  • sections 002',k comprising further processing and/or processing are or are formed by feeding a plurality of sheets 002' one on top of the other.
  • a processing stage 506 embodied as a cutting device 506, in particular as a longitudinal cutting device 506, is provided as a further processing stage 506 in the printing substrate path of at least one printing substrate guide for the sheet or web-shaped printing substrate 002', in particular in the guide path of at least one web 002' , through which the printing material 002' conveyed on the relevant printing material guide is divided into several parts, e.g.
  • Longitudinal cutting device 506 includes at least one blade unit 521 for this purpose. If a distinction is not important and is not explicitly differentiated, the designation “printing material 002” or “printing material web 002” or “web 002” or “printing material sheet 002” should be used. 'also understood to be a part of the printing material obtained by cutting and smaller than the original "printing material 002"' or the original “printing material web 002” or “web 002”' or the original “printing material sheet 002"'.
  • the cutting device 506 is the optionally provided combining device 502; 503; 504 preferably upstream in the printing material path.
  • a longitudinal cut can alternatively also be made downstream by slitting in the fold or by trimming the spine of the fold.
  • the at least one knife unit 521 can be moved transversely to the transport direction F of the incoming printing substrate 002', in particular by remote control and/or by a motor (see for the other examples in 8 indicated).
  • a drive means 527 effecting the adjustment or a controller assigned to it is signal-connected to a control means 528, for example.
  • Information relating to the product P to be manufactured regarding the position of the required cutting line s or control data and/or signals SW that have already been appropriately processed in this regard can be or will be forwarded to this control means 528 via a signal connection, for example, from a higher-level control device 802.
  • further processing section 003 in the area of printing substrate guide section 500, can have a one-part or multi-part further processing stage 507 for aligning printing substrate 002' in the longitudinal and/or transverse direction, e.g. B. a one-part or multi-part alignment device, in particular a one-part or multi-part register device 507 for correcting the position of printing substrate 002' in the transverse direction and/or in the longitudinal direction.
  • a combination device 502; 503; 504 and/or upstream of the cross-cutting device 513 provided for the case of web-type printing substrate 002' in the printing substrate path.
  • further processing section 003 in particular in the area of printing material guide section 500, can include one or more single-stage or multi-stage further processing stages 508, grouped together under reference number 508, that enable printing material 002' to be conditioned, in particular a processing stage 508 embodied as a conditioning and/or treatment stage 508, be provided.
  • This further processing stage 508 can be or include, for example, a perforating or creasing device and/or a plow folding device for folding in a side of the printing material and/or an application device for applying a fluid and/or a dryer for drying the printing fluid and/or an irradiation device to support the curing process .
  • a perforating or creasing device and/or a plow folding device for folding in a side of the printing material and/or an application device for applying a fluid and/or a dryer for drying the printing fluid and/or an irradiation device to support the curing process .
  • One or more of these devices can be downstream of a combination device 502; 503; 504 and/or upstream of the cross-cutting device 513 provided for the case of web-type printing substrate 002' in the printing substrate path.
  • a mechanical treatment stage 509 can be provided in the printing substrate path, which can be used, for example, as a weakening line that applies a weakening line to printing substrate 002', e.g. B. but not completely severing processing device 509, in particular as a perforating or creasing device 509 is formed.
  • This perforating or creasing device 509 can comprise a longitudinal perforating or creasing device or a transverse perforating or creasing device or both a longitudinal perforating or creasing device and a transverse perforating or creasing device and/or is the last of several in the printing substrate path, for example the cross-cutting device 513 or--in the case without a cross-cutting device 513--the output of the printing material guide path 500 provided further processing stages 502; 503; 504; 506; 507; 508; 509 arranged.
  • further processing section 003 can instead of or in addition to one or more of the aforementioned treatment and/or conditioning - and/or treatment stages 508; 509 in the printing material path of a printing material 002' that has already been split longitudinally, i.e. partially wide, a single-stage or multi-stage further processing stage 511, in particular a processing stage 511 embodied as a conditioning and/or treatment stage 511, that enables the conditioning of printing substrate 002' that has been divided longitudinally into single layers.
  • This further processing stage 511 can be or include, for example, a perforating or creasing device and/or a plow folding device for folding in a side of the printing material and/or an application device for applying a fluid and/or a register device for longitudinal registering of an individual layer.
  • further processing section 003 is fed with a multi-page-wide printing substrate 002' that is to be divided downstream by a longitudinal cut
  • further processing section 003 can instead of or in addition to one or more of the aforementioned treatment and/or conditioning - and/or treatment stages 508; 509; 511 in the printing material path of the printing material 002' that has not yet been cut lengthwise, a conditioning of the printing material that has not yet been cut lengthwise, i. H. single-stage or multi-stage further processing stages 512, in particular a processing stage 512 embodied as a conditioning and/or treatment stage 512, may be provided for printing substrate 002' that is still present in full width.
  • This can be, for example, a painting device, e.g. B. a so-called. Coating unit, and / or an application device for applying a z. B. silicone-containing liquid, z. B. a so-called. Silicone work, be or include.
  • Am 6 a schematic representation of a first example of the design of a production line for treating and processing web-shaped printing material 002, wherein the dashed line running vertically through further processing section 003 is intended to symbolize, for example, the height of a crease to be provided in the case of the 90° arrangement. This line then runs, for example, in the area of turner bars of an above-mentioned diverting device 503.
  • the production line comprises printing press 001 with at least one printing unit 200, which preferably operates without a printing forme; 400 and, following this, a further processing section 003 with a strand guiding and/or forming section 500 which, in addition to one or more conveying and/or guide devices 501, has at least the cross-cutting device 513 and, if applicable, one or more of the above-mentioned further processing stages 502; 503; 504; 506; 507; 508; 509; 511; 512 included.
  • This is followed by a collecting and/or folding section 600 with one or more further processing stages 601 not shown in detail here; 602; 603; 604; 606; 607; 608; 609; 611; 612 on.
  • a printing press 001 with a printing press 001 and a gathering and/or folding section 600 of essentially the same nominal width b N (D); b N (SF), ie b N (D) ⁇ b N (SF).
  • the printing press 001 or the printing unit 200; 400 or the printing unit 211, 411 referred to as "single width" in relation to the inlet width or nominal width of the collecting and/or folding section 600.
  • the printing press 001 or the printing unit 200; 400 or the printing unit 211 In a double-width version, the printing press 001 or the printing unit 200; 400 or the printing unit 211,
  • any standard-related deviations from each single- width section should be included in the amount of the above deviation, whereby the working width of the at least a printing unit 211; 411 and the maximum infeed width in the collecting and/or folding section 600 by, for example, only up to half, possibly only up to a third, or even only up to a quarter of the maximum infeed width or nominal width b N (SF) differ from each other.
  • a further processing section 003 is arranged downstream of printing press 001 - regardless of whether it is configured as a straight machine line or in an angled arrangement - which, in a preferred embodiment, has at least one cross-cutting device 513 and at least one cross-folding device 602 and possibly at least one collecting device 601 on a processing line ; 603 executed further processing stage 513; 601; 602; 603 included.
  • further processing section 003, in particular strand guiding and/or forming section 500 comprises, for example, a further processing stage 503 embodied as diverting device 503.
  • a web 002 is printed or can be printed, which web width b002 corresponds at most to the nominal width b N (D), for example.
  • the track 002; 002' can, depending on the product P to be produced (see e.g. below for one or more of the production examples presented) in the transverse direction on its width b002 in a first embodiment with the printed page image of only a printed page representing a later product page, for example a first format f( Z, T) or in another production variant with several, e.g. B.
  • two printed page images for example of a format f(B) different from the first format f(Z, T) and/or with an orientation different from a first page orientation, are or are to be printed side by side.
  • a single-width initial web 002 after cross-cutting - unless they are brought together with one or more other single-width initial webs (see below) - single-layer sections 002',k can be provided or provided for further processing in the collecting and/or folding section 600 .
  • multiple-width (m>1), in particular double-width, design of printing press 001 and/or the at least one printing unit 200; 400 and/or the at least one printing unit 211; 411 is the printing press 001 - basically independent of the embodiment variant as a straight machine line or in an angled arrangement - a further processing section 003 downstream, which in a preferred embodiment on a processing line - z. B.
  • the further processing section 003, in particular the strand guiding and/or forming section 500 can comprise the at least one combining device 503 or, in addition to this, a further processing stage 503 embodied as a diverting device 503.
  • a web 002 is printed or can be printed, which web width b002 corresponds at most to this "multiple-width" nominal width b N (D), for example.
  • the track 002; 002' can, depending on the product P to be produced (see e.g. below for one or more of the production examples presented) in the transverse direction on its width b002 in a first embodiment with m, in particular two printed side images of several, e.g. B.
  • the at least one combining device 502; 503; 504 exhibiting strand guiding and / or forming section 500 are thus multi-layer, z.
  • two-layer sections 002 ', k - depending on its design with or without a paired connection in the area of a fold spine - for further processing in the collecting and / or folding section 600 can be made available or made available.
  • the at least one as combining device 502; 503; 504 of the second embodiment for the production line can in principle be designed in one of the above-mentioned embodiments.
  • a first embodiment for the combiner 502; 503; 504--in particular in connection with the variant for the production line as a straight-ahead machine--this can be used as a turning device 502 with at least one pair of turning bars 514; 517 (see e.g. 9 ), through which a strand 002, which z. g. as a partial web 002' from an entire web 002' or by a partial-width original web 002, transverse to its conveying direction F present at the point of entry into turning device 502, to align with another such strand 002, and thus already there or in the further course is to be combined with this to form a multi-layer strand.
  • the turning device 502 can be embodied as a bay window and/or rear turning device or can additionally include such a device, for example by having a roller 516 designed as a rear turning or bay window roller 516 and one opposite the other of the turning bars 514 - in one viewed from the horizontal plane of projection - has a turning bar 517 inclined by 90°.
  • At least one of the turning bars 514; 517 transversely or longitudinally to the transport direction F of the incoming printing material 002' can be moved, in particular by remote control and/or by a motor (see examples for the other examples in 9 indicated).
  • a drive means 529 effecting the adjustment or a controller assigned to it is signal-connected to a control means 531, for example.
  • Information relating to the product P to be manufactured regarding the position resulting from the required strand guidance or control data and/or signals SW that have already been appropriately processed in this regard can be or will be forwarded to this control means 531, for example via a signal connection from a higher-level control device 802.
  • this can be used as a diverting device 503 with at least two diverting or turning bars 514; 517 (see e.g. 10 ), through which two strands 002', which z. B. as partial webs 002' from the same web 002' or from different complete webs 002' or by two original webs 002 that are only partially wide, can be laterally deflected to the same alignment transversely to their respective conveying direction F at the point of entry into the diverting device 503, and are therefore already to be combined there or later with one another to form a multi-layer strand.
  • Diversion device 503 can be designed at least in part as a bay window and/or reverse indentation device or can also include such a device, for example by having a roller 516 designed as a reverse or bay window roller and one of the turning bars 514 opposite one another - in viewed from a horizontal projection plane - has a turning bar 517 inclined by 90°.
  • At least one of the diverting or turning bars 514; 517 can be moved transversely or longitudinally to the transport direction F of the incoming printing material 002', in particular by remote control and/or motor-driven adjustment (see examples for the other examples in 10 indicated).
  • a drive means 532 effecting the adjustment or a controller assigned to it is signal-connected to a control means 533, for example.
  • Information relating to the product P to be manufactured, the position resulting from the required strand guidance, or control data and/or signals SW that have already been prepared accordingly in this regard can be or will be forwarded to this control means 533, for example via a signal connection from a higher-level control device 802.
  • a former 504 (see e.g. 11 ), over which two already divided or still undivided web parts, in particular web halves, are laid one on top of the other as strands 002' that are unconnected or connected to one another in the fold spine running along a longitudinal fold line I. These two parts of the web can then be used as a multi-layer, still in the fold spine z.
  • a longitudinal cutting device 506 assigned to or upstream of the former 504 is provided in the strand path, for example.
  • multi-layer e.g. B. two-layer sections 002 ', k without or with a paired connection in the area of a fold spine for further processing in the collecting and / or folding section 600 can be or provided.
  • former 504 can be moved transversely and/or lengthwise to transport direction F of incoming printing substrate 002', in particular by remote control and/or motorized adjustment (for the other examples, see in 11 indicated).
  • a drive means 534 effecting setting; 536 or a controller assigned to it is in signal communication with a control means 537, for example.
  • Information relating to the product P to be manufactured regarding the position resulting from the required strand guidance or control data and/or signals SW that have already been appropriately processed in this regard can be or will be forwarded to this control means 537, for example via a signal connection from a higher-level control device 802.
  • the product range can be expanded particularly advantageously by one of the following further development variants.
  • the further processing section 003, which is arranged downstream of printing press 001, preferably in a straight line, comprises a turning device 12 on a guiding or processing section upstream of cross-cutting device 513, by means of which a longitudinally severed part of single-width web 002 can be guided over another part (see e.g B. 12 ).
  • the further processing section 003 which is preferably arranged downstream in an angled arrangement, comprises at least two turning bars 514; 517;
  • a former 504 and, in a fourth development, both at least one turner bar 514 designed with a length for diverting a maximum web width b002 max ; 517 and a former 504 (see e.g. 14 ).
  • the respective combining device 502; 503; 504 in the guiding or processing section a longitudinal cutting device 506 with at least one knife unit 521 is arranged upstream.
  • the product range can be expanded particularly advantageously by one of the following further development variants.
  • the further processing section 003, which is arranged downstream of printing press 001, preferably in an angled arrangement, comprises both a turning device 502 on a guiding or processing section upstream of cross-cutting device 513, through which a longitudinally severed part of multi-width web 002' as strand 002' over a other such part can be guided (see e.g.
  • the further processing section 003 which is preferably arranged downstream of the printing press 001 in an angled arrangement, comprises both a diverting device 503 on a guiding or processing section upstream of the cross-cutting device 513, by means of which parts of the multi-width web 002' that have been severed lengthwise can be diverted as strands 002' and guided one on top of the other is (see e.g. 16 ), and also a fold former 504 arranged downstream of this turning device 502 in the printing material path, through which the e.g. B. now single-width strands 002 'can be guided over the fold former 504 on top of one another without or with a former center cut.
  • multi-layer e.g. B. four-layer sections 002 ', k as a single sheet or as a double sheet with a paired connection in the area of a fold spine for further processing in the collecting and / or folding section 600 can be provided.
  • the strand guiding and/or forming section 500 can be provided with a handling stage 521 that forms a printing material switch 521 as a further processing stage 521, through which a printing material flow guided along a guide section is fed overall into a first subsequent guide section or into a second subsequent guide section can be guided (see, for example, in 16 ).
  • This handling stage 521 is preferably also designed to optionally divide the incoming printing material flow so that part of the printing material flow can be and/or is guided in the first subsequent guide section and another part in the second subsequent guide section.
  • the further processing stage 521 in the guide path of the relevant multi-layer printing material stream e.g. B. bundle of strands, at least one, in particular at least two, handling means 522 forming a conveyor and/or guide device 522, which are embodied, for example, as rollers 522 or rods 522.
  • two or more printing presses 001 or printing units 200; 400 may be provided, through which two or more webs 002 are printed simultaneously and these or partial webs 002′ obtained from them can be fed into a downstream further processing section 003.
  • these strands 002' formed by the webs 002' themselves and/or by partial webs 002' obtained from them are to be combined and - in particular after being cut crosswise into corresponding multi-layered sections 002'k - processed further together in the downstream collecting and/or folding section 600 (see Fig e.g. 17 and 18 ).
  • the at least two printing presses 001 and/or printing units 200; 400 comprises a production line in the printing material path of at least one of the at least two webs 002', a handling stage 532 that forms a combining device 523, through which different printing presses 001 and/or printing units 200; 400 original webs 002' can be combined to form a common web strand.
  • the combining device 523 can, for example, optionally be taken into account or be taken into account or not taken into account in the printing material guide, with the first If then, for example, a mixed production and in the second case a separate production takes place and/or can take place.
  • a rear one of the printing machines 001 or printing units 200; 400 a combining device 523 with handling means 524 for moving a front one of the printing presses 001 or printing units 200 over or under; 400 are provided, which are formed, for example, by conveying and/or guiding devices 524 configured as rollers 524 or rods 524.
  • all of the above-mentioned explanations, embodiments, further developments and variants for the design of the strand guiding and/or forming section 500 can be embodied as desired, but for example at least one as a transverse folding device 602 and possibly at least one as a collecting device 601; 603 trained further processing stage 601; 603 comprehensive collection and / or folding section 600 be downstream.
  • a collecting and/or folding section 600 is arranged downstream, as is described in one of the versions, embodiments, developments and variants presented below.
  • printing material guide section 500 is arranged downstream of a collecting and/or folding section 600
  • this can be conveyed on the input side only through printing material guide section 500 and, if necessary - particularly in the case of printing material 002' present on the input side in the form of a web - additionally by cross-cutting a web Single-layer sections 002',k obtained from printing substrate 002, or in a further development also by combining in different printing presses 001 and/or printing units 200; 400 printed original webs and/or multi-layer sections 002',k obtained from one or more partial webs 002' provided by longitudinal cutting.
  • These single-layer or multi-layer sections 002',k can additionally be subjected to one or more conditioning stages 508; 509; 511; 512 must be mechanically and/or chemically and/or physically conditioned and/or prefabricated with regard to the dimensions in the manner set out above.
  • the configuration examples and variants presented below for the formation of the collecting and/or folding section 600 can in principle be used with all combinations for the expansion stage of the upstream printing material guide section 500, i. H. with at least one a combiner 502; 503; 504; 523 forming handling stage 502; 503; 504, in particular a turning device 502 and/or a diverting device 503 and/or a longitudinal folding device 504 and/or a combining device 523 for webs 002' of different origins, and/or with at least one register device 507 and/or with at least one mechanical processing stage 506; 508; 509, in particular a longitudinal cutting device 506 and/or a cross cutting device 513 and/or a perforating or creasing device 509, and/or with at least one conditioning device 508; 511; 512, in particular at least one conditioning device 511 relating to a partial-width strand and/or at least one conditioning device 512 relating to a still uncut web 002'
  • Further processing section 003, in particular in its collecting and/or folding section 600 preferably comprises at least one handling stage 601; 611, in particular as a collection device 601; 611 trained further processing stage 601; 611, through which one behind the other in the printing material flow, in particular in the product flow, directly or indirectly the following single or multi-layer intermediate products 002',k;616; 617 can be collected in multiples, preferably in twos or even more than two, on top of each other, and/or at least one further processing stage 602 listed as a folding device 602, in particular as a cross folding device 602, representing a processing stage 602, through which single-layer or multi-layer intermediate products 002 ',k;617; 618 can be folded transversely along a fold line q running transversely to its conveying direction on the entry side of the processing stage 602 in question.
  • the at least one first collecting device 601 is associated with at least one additional handling stage 603; trained further processing stage 603, e.g. B. a further processing stage 603 configured as a pre-collecting device 603 is arranged upstream.
  • the intermediate products 002',k; 617 are separated by individual one- or multi-layer sections 002',k or by several bundles 617; 617' combined and possibly stapled single-layer or multi-layer sections 002',k are formed.
  • the intermediate products 002',k; 617 can - depending on the expansion stage of the further processing section 003 and/or after activation, if necessary in the collecting and folding section 600 upstream further processing stages 601; 602; 603; 606; 607 - for example as single-layer or multi-layer sections 002',k itself, i. H.
  • a bundle 617; 617' may be formed, which are formed by pre-collecting such single-layer or multi-layer sections 002',k upstream of the collecting device 601 in an upstream further collecting device 603, in particular the pre-collecting device 603, into a plurality of bundles 617; 617' are or will be formed by sections 002',k.
  • a plurality of intermediate products 002',k; 617; 617' or a plurality of intermediate products 002',k; 617; 617' as well as intermediate products 002',k; 617; 617' can be or be collected in a plurality on top of each other.
  • a collection sequence based on the same product copy i. H. the collection pattern related to the successively arriving sections 002',k, 002',k+1, 002',k+2 etc. must be constant over the sections 002',k to be collected for the same product example or its parts.
  • it can be used instead or in addition to this in another operating situation for the production of a product P with e.g. B. several product parts with different numbers of layers and/or pages, that the collection sequence on which the collection is based varies over the sections 002′,k to be collected for the same product example or its parts.
  • control the holding means 626; 651 and/or a diverter 647 (652) below information representing the above - constant and/or varying - collection sequence can be stored in one of the relevant collection devices 601; 603 assigned, exemplary for the other versions only in 22 illustrated control means 682; 683; 684 (e.g. as a control circuit or preferably in digitized form as values or functions in a data storage and/or data processing device provided there) and - for example synchronized with the printing substrate feed - when controlling holding means 626; 651 are taken into account.
  • the movement of the holding means 626; 651 or the points 647 (652) that control the drive preferably mechanically independently of a collecting device 601; 603 e.g. B.
  • the drive can be designed as a one-part or multi-part control disc, which can be rotated by a drive motor that is mechanically independent of other components and is connected to the holding means 626; 651 for whose movement control works together.
  • the information representing the collection sequence can be stored, but can be changed as part of a parameterization.
  • the intermediate products 002',k;617; 619 can - depending on the expansion stage and/or activation of any upstream further processing stages - be formed, for example, as single or multi-layer sections 002',k provided on the output side by the printing material guide line 500, i.e. without a previous collecting process, or as bundles 619, which are Section bundles 619 are collected in the collecting device 601 from such single-layer or multi-layer sections 002',k or which, if necessary, are collected as a bundle joint 619 from two or more section bundles that have already been pre-collected and possibly stapled from single-layer or multi-layer sections 002',k upstream of the collecting device 601 617; 617'.
  • the cross-cutting device 602 leaves a cross-folded intermediate product 616, which, depending on the expansion stage and/or activation, is formed by a folded single-layer or multi-layer section 002',k, by a folded, collected or pre-collected bundle of sections 617; 619 or by a folded one Bundle joint 619 with at least one pre-collected section bundle 517 and at least one additional section 002',k and/or section bundle 517.
  • the at least one device connecting a plurality of layers 606; 607 is arranged directly or indirectly upstream of cross-folding device 602 in the printing material path.
  • a pre-collecting device 603 is provided, the at least one device 606; 607, for example, associated with this collecting device 601 or directly or indirectly downstream in the printing material path.
  • both a collection and a pre-collection device 601; 603, both the pre-collecting device 603 and the collecting device 601 can each have a device 606; 607 associated or subordinate.
  • the further processing section 003, in particular in the area of the processing line 600 can comprise at least one processing stage 604, in particular a further processing stage 604 embodied as a longitudinal cutting device 604, through which individual folded sections 002',k, e.g. B.
  • Such a longitudinal cutting device 604 can preferably be provided downstream of the at least one cross folding device 602 and/or downstream of the at least one collecting device 601 in the printing substrate path.
  • further processing section 003 can have at least one folding device 608; 609, in particular as a longitudinal folding device 608; 609 trained processing stage 608; 609 or further processing stage 608; 609, through which—depending on the equipment and/or activation of the processing line 600—individual single-layer or multi-layer sections 002′,k, e.g. B.
  • such a longitudinal folding device 608; 609 should preferably be provided downstream of the at least one cross-folding device 602 and/or downstream of the at least one collecting device 601 in the printing material path.
  • both one of the at least one cross-folding device 602 and/or the at least one collecting device 601; 603; 604 and one of the at least one cross-folding device 602 and/or the at least one collecting device 601; 603; 604 can be provided in the printing material path.
  • the longitudinally folded intermediate product 002',k; 617; 618 or finished product P can be discharged via a conveying section 613, for example, in a conveying direction F′ inclined by 90° to the previous conveying direction F.
  • the longitudinally folded intermediate product 002',k; 617; 618 or finished product P pass a pressing device 614, through which the formed longitudinal fold becomes sharper and/or the product height in the area of the fold is reduced.
  • a further processing stage 612 embodied as a folding device 612, in particular a longitudinal folding device 612, can be arranged downstream of a longitudinal folding device 609 in the product path.
  • a further longitudinal folding device 612 which is arranged downstream of a longitudinal folding device 609 in the printing material or product path, is preferably provided in one embodiment of further processing section 003 and/or the handling and/or processing line 600, in which the printing material path is located upstream of the first of the two in the same longitudinal folding devices 609 without, at least without an active transverse folding device.
  • a processing section provided for such further processing of the sections 002',k comprises two longitudinal folding devices 609; 612, but no or at least no active cross folder.
  • the further longitudinal folding device 612 allows the intermediate product, which is now folded twice longitudinally—relative to its respective input transport direction 002',k;617; 618 or finished product P is diverted again by 90° via, for example, a further conveyor section 613 and, if necessary, via further conveyor sections 613 to storage and/or picking in or on e.g. B. a storage device 700 are or be supplied.
  • a treatment device 614 embodied as a pressing device 614 can be provided on the downstream of folders 602; 608; 609; 614, in particular of longitudinal folding devices 608; 609; 614, a treatment device 614 embodied as a pressing device 614 can be provided.
  • a further collecting device 611 in particular a section collecting device 611, is arranged downstream, through which intermediate products 616 which have already been folded transversely and which z. B. by transverse folding of sections 002',k, section bundles 617; 617' or bundle joints 619 can be produced or produced into a pack 618 of cross-folded intermediate fold products 616, e.g. B. a section bundle 618 to summarize.
  • the last further processing stage provided in the single or relevant one of a plurality of conveyor paths or in the relevant processing line is provided, for example, with a conveyor line, for example a delivery belt or a conveyor system comprising grippers, on or through which the products P are fed to storage system 700 and are or can be stored and/or picked.
  • a conveyor line for example a delivery belt or a conveyor system comprising grippers, on or through which the products P are fed to storage system 700 and are or can be stored and/or picked.
  • the further processing section 003, in particular the collecting and folding section 600 comprises a first group of exemplary embodiments, developments and variants (see e.g. Figures 19 to 22 ) at least one transverse folding device 602 and/or at least one collecting device 601; 603; 611, e.g. B. at least one referred to here as the main collection device 601. Collecting device 601. This is or are—in particular in the case of a web-processing further processing section 003—arranged in the printing material path downstream of a cross-cutting device 513 that may be provided.
  • a conveyor section 638 with a conveyor system 627 is arranged upstream on the input side, through which the sections 002,k of the relevant sections 002,k, which enter the printing material flow and are configured as a collecting device 601; 603 or as a folding device 602 further processing stage 601; 602; 603; 611 can be supplied.
  • the single-layer or multi-layer sections 002',k to be fed on the input side of the collecting and folding section 600 can--e.g.
  • the transverse folding device 602 and/or the only or first collecting device 601 provided in the guide path of a processing line; 603; 611 is designed in the printing material path with a nominal width b N (W) given by the maximum processing width, in order to receive and further process single- or multi-layer sections 002',k with a width up to this nominal width b N (W).
  • This width of the sections 002′,k can, depending on the production, basically correspond in width to the width of the printed image of one or more printed pages next to one another.
  • a first product P to be produced for example a newspaper or a tabloid product P(Z); P(T), sections 002',k can be, for example, one page wide with regard to the print image applied to printing substrate 002', i.e. comprising a printed page image of only one printed page in width, in particular comprising a printed page image of a horizontal printed page, i.e. the page height running in the transverse direction , Be formed, whereas with respect to a second product to be manufactured P, z. B.
  • a book product P(B) the width of in the relevant further processing stage 601; 602; 603; 611 to be processed and/or processed section 002',k, which can be two-page wide, i.e. comprising a printed page image of two printed pages in width, in particular comprising the printed side images of two printed pages standing, i.e. with the page height running in the conveying direction F.
  • the at least one, e.g. B. the cross-cutting device 513 downstream downstream, cross-folding device 602 is preferably as a rotating folding cylinder 621; 623 comprehensive transverse folding device 602 is formed.
  • they are basically designed as a wheel folder with a rotating collecting and folding blade cylinder and an interacting folding nip, it is preferably configured as a jaw folding unit and comprises a cylinder 621 configured as a folding jaw cylinder 621, e.g. B. Folding cylinder 621, on the circumference of which at least one folding jaw 622 or an axial row of folding jaws 622 is provided, viewed in the circumferential direction, and/or which has an outer circumference that is essentially, i.e.
  • the fixed or preferably the maximum section length I002,k to be processed and/or the fixed or preferably maximum for the printing of products P with a print side by the printing unit 200; 400 or the printing machine 001, the printing section lengths L D to be provided are at least 600, in particular 700 to 900 mm, preferably 800 ⁇ 20 mm.
  • variable print section lengths L D a lower limit is given, for example, by a length preferably in the range from 360 to 480 mm, in particular in the range from 400 to 440 mm, possibly by a length of 420 ⁇ 10 mm.
  • the folding cylinder 621 has two folding jaws 622 or two axially running rows of folding jaws 622 on its circumference in the circumferential direction.
  • the cross-folding device 602 also includes a further cylinder 623, e.g. B. folding cylinder 623, a transport and folding blade cylinder 623 which cooperates with the folding jaw cylinder 621 and has at least one axially extending folding tool 624, e.g. B. folding blade 624, and / or at least one recording means 626, z. B.
  • At least one axially extending or an axially running group of grippers 626 for picking up a leading end of at least one individual or several gathered sections 002'.k or already pre-collected section bundles 617; 617' is provided.
  • it preferably has an outer circumference which is essentially, i. H. plus a maximum of 10%, corresponds to twice the length of one or two fixed or preferably one or two maximum section lengths I002,k intended for processing.
  • the transport and folding blade cylinder 623 preferably has two such receiving means 626 or groups of grippers 626, one behind the other in the circumferential direction, spaced apart from one another by, for example, approximately 180°, and two folding tools 624, each arranged between the receiving means 626, for example.
  • the collection cylinder 649 has a “simple” circumference and/or possibly only one or only one group of receiving means 626.
  • a collecting device 601 arranged upstream of the cross folding device 602 this can be formed by a transport and folding blade cylinder 623 that can be operated as a collecting cylinder 623.
  • mechanically and/or electronically controllable adjusting means that are designed to ensure that a section 002.k that has already been picked up is not released to the downstream folding jaw cylinder 621 during at least the first pass through the nip point, but rather in the area of an inlet side feeding to the transport and folding blade
  • a bundle 619 comprising the collected sections 002.k or section bundle 617 is delivered to the folding jaw cylinder 621.
  • the section 002',k or the bundle 617 or the bundle joint 619 becomes the folded intermediate product 616, e.g. B. a product section 616 folded.
  • the collection sequence on the folding cylinder 623 that can be operated as a collection cylinder 18 can be varied in the manner explained above from production to production or--for example to produce sections 617 with different page numbers--preferably also to form product sections of the same product copy.
  • the folding cylinder 623 is designed as a collecting cylinder 623, the folding jaw cylinder and the collecting cylinder 621; 623 comprising cross-folding device 602 a collecting and folding unit 602 comprising both further processing stages is formed.
  • the intermediate product 616 or product P delivered by cross folding device 602 or by folding jaw cylinder 621 is then conveyed, for example on a conveyor line 631 included in the processing line provided for product P, to an output of further processing section 003 and, for example, to storage and/or order picking.
  • the conveyor section 631 can be a conveyor system designed, for example, as a belt system and/or a so-called bucket wheel 628 and/or a z. B. as a delivery 629 trained conveying device 629.
  • this can be a collection device 601; 603 and/or a cross folding device 602 of further processing section 003, in particular folding and/or collecting section 600, a processing line with a further processing stage 608 configured as a longitudinal folding device 608 arranged downstream of cross folding device 602 in the printing material path.
  • the longitudinal folding device 608 can, in a first embodiment, such as B. in the figures 19 and 20 shown by way of example, can be provided in a second conveyor section 632 that is different from the first conveyor section 631 to be assigned to the first processing section, which second conveyor section then forms part of a second processing section.
  • a branch 633 in the conveying path embodied, for example, as a product diverter 633, can be arranged downstream of the cross-folding device 602 in the printing material path, through which the transversely folded intermediate products 616 can be routed either into the first conveying line 631 and to the product display 629 or via the second conveying line 632 to the downstream longitudinal folding device 608.
  • the longitudinal folding device 608 e.g. B. in the figures 21 and 22 recognizable as an example, be provided in the first conveyor section 631 leading to the first output, ie in the printing material path of the first processing section.
  • This longitudinal folding device 608 can be inactive during production over the first processing section and the cross-folded intermediate products 616 can run through it without being processed.
  • the longitudinal folding device 608 can fold the cross-folded intermediate products 616 longitudinally--relative to the conveying direction F present upon entry. B. the product switch, is formed to divide the processing line.
  • the intermediate product 634 itself which is first folded transversely and then longitudinally, can itself be the product P; 634 train.
  • the intermediate product 634 or product P delivered by the longitudinal folding device 608 on the output side is then conveyed, for example, on the second conveyor line 632 to an output of the further processing section 003 and, for example, to storage and/or picking.
  • the conveyor section 632 can be a so-called paddle wheel 636 and/or a z. e.g. conveyor device 637 designed as a delivery 637 (see e.g. exemplarily in 19 , 21 and 22 ).
  • the second conveyor section 322 for example, directly after leaving the longitudinal folding device 608, in a storage device 700, such as a stack delivery 700, lead.
  • the longitudinal folding device 608 is preferably embodied as a longitudinal folding device 608, also referred to as a so-called knife folding device 608, with a folding tool 641, e.g. B.
  • a folding blade 641, also referred to as a folding blade can be moved cyclically towards and away from a folding table 642, in particular up and down, so that during the downward movement it dips into a folding gap of folding table 642 and a gap present on folding table 642 at that point in time intermediate 616; 617; 618; 619 through the folding gap between a pair of folding rollers 643 and is thereby subjected to the longitudinal fold running along the longitudinal fold line I, before this is produced as an intermediate product 634 which has possibly already been folded transversely beforehand and which has been folded at least once longitudinally (e.g. e.g. in 21 indicated) the longitudinal folding device 608; 609 leaves.
  • collecting device 601 can combine a plurality of layers that have been collected on top of one another device 606; 607, in particular a transverse stapling device 606; 607, to be associated or moderately or immediately subordinate.
  • This facility 606; 607 can in principle be spaced upstream from the upstream collection device 601; 603 may be provided, but in a preferred embodiment as a so-called layer stitcher 606; 607 with a stitching cylinder 644 acting together with the collecting cylinder 623 as an abutment.
  • Layers to be connected can be formed by several single- or multi-layer sections 002',k or possibly by bundles 617 of already pre-collected sections 002',k and then correspondingly connected, in particular stapled, intermediate products 617; 619 train.
  • staples 653 e.g. indicated as an example on the intermediate product 616 in 20
  • the term "stapling cylinder” does not only include strictly cylindrical bodies of revolution, but also rotatable bodies with the relevant stapling tools, which essentially revolve on a circular line when the body is rotated.
  • the at least one device 606; 607, in particular cross stitching device 606; 607, can optionally can be activated and preferably in their work or stitching sequence from production to production or - for example for the production of stitched Sections 617 with different page numbers - preferably also for the production of consecutively connected or stitched and unconnected or unstapled intermediate products 617 in the material flow; 619 of the same product example can be varied.
  • this is set up to which the cross stitching device 606; 607 sections a,i; 002',k or bundle 617 in one or preferably in several, e.g. B. two lanes HS1; HS2, in particular by introducing z. B. as staples or preferably as staples 653 trained stapling means 653 to staple.
  • multiple tracks HS1; HS2 takes place, for example, in at least two tracks HS1 that are each closest to the respective edge area; HS2, ie two outer tracks a stapling, whereby this can be left as it is or additionally one or more further tracks can be provided in between.
  • a “trace” or “stapling trace” is intended here for the series of divided into sections a,i; 002',k or bundles 617 or bundles 617 introduced or to be introduced fastening means 653 which, viewed from the same side edge, the same single, outer or inner row of in the sections a,i; 002', k or bundle 617 attached or to be attached fasteners 653 belong.
  • this can include two such tracks HS1; HS2, in the case of three stitches, three tracks HS1; be HS2.
  • Tracks HS1; HS2 can - based on the relative lateral position on the sections a, i; 002',k or section bundles 617 - each in the same alignment, ie in each case in the same lateral position, be introduced or can be introduced.
  • the transverse stapling device 606; 607 into two consecutive sections a,i; 002',k or bundles 617 stitches or stitching means 653 introduced or to be introduced of the same stitching track HS1; HS2 vary in their lateral position, ie viewed in the transverse direction.
  • a collecting device 611 e.g. B. a section collecting device 611, be downstream.
  • Folded intermediate products 616 can be further processed into an intermediate product 616 by the collecting device 611, which is a bundle 619, e.g. B.
  • section bundle 619 such intermediate products 616, z. B. Sections 616, on top of each other.
  • the collection sequence of the section collection device 611 can be varied from production to production, for example for the production of consecutive products with section bundles 619 with different numbers of sections.
  • the section collecting device 611 can, for example, include a z. g. here as collecting cylinder 646, in particular section collecting cylinder 646, rotating body 646, holding means 648 for holding sections 616 to be collected on body 646, and in an advantageous embodiment, an adjustable diverter 647 through which incoming intermediate products 616 or section bundles 619 that have already been collected once or several times can optionally be supplied to a collection cycle again or be delivered to a downstream conveyor section, which can be given by a section of the section continuing the conveyor section provided on the input side.
  • the intermediate product 619 formed by the bundle of sections 619 can be conveyed to a product display 628 or directly to a storage device 700 via this section or a conveyor section that continues this section, if necessary via a bucket wheel 628.
  • a longitudinal folding device 608 is arranged downstream of the processing section, the bundle of sections 619 can be folded longitudinally there and leave the longitudinal folding device 608 as a longitudinally folded intermediate product 634 - but previously also folded transversely.
  • this can represent the product P to be manufactured. As explained below, this can in particular be a newspaper or tabloid product P(Z); be P(T).
  • the sections collection cylinder 646 preferably has a circumference corresponding to the circumference of the main collection cylinder.
  • the holding means 648 can in principle be in the form of receiving means comparable to the grippers mentioned, in which case the switch can be omitted.
  • the holding means 648 are preferably designed as a belt system 648, by means of which intermediate products 616 forced into a first or renewed collection cycle by means of the switch 647 are held on the outer contour of the rotating body 646.
  • the switch 647 can be formed as a pivotable tongue 647 or tongue group 647 .
  • the pre-collection device 603 comprises a cylinder 649 designed as a collection cylinder 649, in particular a pre-collection cylinder 649, and holding means 651 provided in or on the cylinder 649.
  • the latter can be designed as grippers 651 or a group of grippers 651, as described above for the Main collection device 601 are described, or as a belt system 651, as described above for the section collection device 611.
  • a switch 652 designed to be adjustable in accordance with the abovementioned switch 647 is to be provided.
  • the pre-collecting cylinder 649 preferably has a circumference that corresponds to the circumference of the main collecting cylinder and/or, in the embodiment with holding means 651 arranged on the cylinder 649, has two of these holding means 651 or groups of holding means 651 one behind the other in the circumferential direction. Preferably, it is and/or can be operated during production operation in the same direction of rotation as the main collecting cylinder 623 .
  • the pre-collection cylinder 649 has a "simple" circumference and/or possibly only one or a group of holding means 651.
  • intermediate products 002',k entering the pre-collecting device 603 or bundles of such 619 intermediate products 002',k that have already been collected once or several times can optionally be fed back into a collection cycle or--for example by releasing the grippers 651 or by appropriately setting the switch 652 can be delivered to a downstream conveyor line 654.
  • the conveying section 654 arranged downstream of the pre-collecting cylinder 649 can be formed by a section of the conveying system 639 arranged upstream of the pre-collecting cylinder 649 or entirely or partially by a separate conveying system, for example designed as a belt system.
  • the intermediate products 002',k; 617 can be fed or fed to the main collecting cylinder 623 .
  • the above-mentioned device 607 downstream of the main collecting device for connecting layers, in particular stapling device 607, can still be provided, but can also be omitted in an advantageous embodiment.
  • a device 607 for connecting layers in particular a stapling device 606, is arranged in the processing line upstream of the main collecting device 601 and downstream of the pre-collecting device 603.
  • the design and/or arrangement of this device 606 applies to the first-mentioned device 606 with the proviso that, in a preferred embodiment as a section stitcher 606, it comprises a stitching cylinder 644 that interacts with the pre-gathering cylinder 649.
  • This stapling device can be used to staple pre-collected bundles 617 made up of single or multi-layer sections 002',k and to combine these stapled section bundles 617, for example, subsequently in the main collecting device 601, in particular on the main collecting cylinder 623, to form a bundle joint 619 comprising several stapled section bundles 617 before e.g. B. this is folded by the cross-folding device 602 to form a cross-folded product section 616, possibly forming the product P to be manufactured.
  • the collecting and folding section 600 is preferably designed for processing variable section lengths, in particular for processing section lengths I002,k within a range of section lengths I002,k specified above.
  • the z. B. that of the only or first collecting device 601 601 provided in the printing material path; 603; 611 upstream conveyor section 638 is designed as an acceleration section 638, on which or through whose belt system 627 incoming single or multi-layer sections 002',k can be accelerated in their conveying speed by a drive, not shown here, compared to the previously existing conveying speed, if necessary.
  • the cross-cutting device 513 is or is executed by a drive means 537, in particular a drive motor 537, which is mechanically independent of the drives of the downstream and/or upstream further processing stages, and whose rotational movement profile can be specified, for example, by a signaling upstream control means 538.
  • the movement profile can be taken into account—for example, synchronized with the printing material feed—in the control of the cross cutting device.
  • the information on the desired movement profile can be stored in the control means 538, but can be changed as part of a parameterization.
  • FIG. 19 to 22 The embodiments, developments and variants explained for an advantageous embodiment of the development section 003 or folding and/or collecting section 600 relate, for example, to advantageous configurations and expansion stages of a first exemplary embodiment, which in its preferred and possible components, for example, shows a schematic representation of the 23 can be found, but is not limited to this.
  • a further advantageous embodiment of the development section 003 or fold and/or collecting section 600 with a second group of exemplary embodiments, developments and variants is exemplified in its preferred and possible components, e.g. B. schematic of 24 can be found, but also not limited thereto.
  • the processing section 003, in particular the folding and/or collecting section 600 of the second embodiment, can also be designed in different, particularly advantageous configuration stages, but also comprises at least one cross-folding device 602 and/or at least one collecting device 601; 603; 611, e.g. B. at least one referred to here as the main collection device 601. Collecting device 601. This is or are - particularly in the case of a web-processing further processing section 003 - arranged in the printing material path downstream of a cross-cutter 513 that may be provided 513 upstream, through which a single- or multi-layer strand can be or is cut transversely into the sections 002,k.
  • the cross-cutting device 513 is designed and/or can be driven in the above-mentioned manner.
  • At least one folding device 602, embodied in particular as a cross-folding device 602 is provided downstream of the cross-cutting device that may be provided and/or an entry into the collecting and/or folding section 600 in a processing line, through which single-layer or multi-layer sections 002',k or as previously collected and possibly pre-collected bundle 617; 619 present intermediate products 002',k can be folded transversely to the transport direction F present on the input side of this transverse folding device 602 to form intermediate products 618 transversely folded along a transverse fold line q.
  • cross-folding device 602 is designed as a folding device comprising a folding jaw cylinder 621, which interacts with a folding cylinder 623 designed as a transport and folding blade cylinder 623 in the manner explained above.
  • folding cylinder 623 is embodied as a folding cylinder 523 that can be operated as collecting cylinder 632
  • a collecting and folding unit 602 comprising both further processing stages is or will be formed by cross-folding device 602 comprising jaw and collecting cylinder 632.
  • Single-layer or multi-layer sections 002′,k or pre-collected bundles of sections 617 can then be collected in multiples and then folded transversely.
  • the upstream cross cutter 513 can be arranged and/or designed and/or operated in the printing material path in such a way that, for example, a printed page that only represents a later product page, for example of a specific product format f, e.g. B. tabloid or newspaper format f(T) f(Z), preferably in a horizontal arrangement, side-by-side material webs 002' can be cut transversely into which web sections 002',k carrying the printed image of a printed page can or will be cut in the transverse direction.
  • a specific product format f e.g. B. tabloid or newspaper format f(T) f(Z
  • the upstream cross cutting device 513 in the printing substrate path can be designed and/or operated in such a way and/or with a width that it can be used to cut at least two subsequent product pages into printed pages, for example of a certain format f, e.g. B. book format f(B), preferably in a horizontal arrangement, side-by-side material web 02 can be cut transversely into at least two, in particular two pages wide or the printed images of at least two web sections 002',k, in particular two printed pages, can be or will be cut.
  • a certain format f e.g. B. book format f(B)
  • side-by-side material web 02 can be cut transversely into at least two, in particular two pages wide or the printed images of at least two web sections 002',k, in particular two printed pages, can be or will be cut.
  • the upstream printing machine is, for example, of simple width design, so that the web 002' to be cut transversely can be cut without a prior longitudinal cut and z. B. without prior longitudinal folding in z. B. one or two-page wide sections 002 ', k can be cut crosswise or is cut.
  • the collecting and/or folding section 600 is designed to process variable section lengths I002',k and for this purpose comprises the conveyor section 638 already described above can be driven independently of the conveying speed of a preceding conveying section upstream.
  • the feed to the transport and folding blade cylinder 623, in particular on the acceleration section can take place predominantly horizontally, i.e. with a horizontal movement component that is larger than a vertical component, but advantageously on a movement path inclined by no more than 20° to the horizontal. preferably essentially horizontal, ie for example with a maximum deviation of ⁇ 5°.
  • the supply to the collecting and folding device 602 or to the transport and folding blade cylinder 623 or to the conveying system 639 directly upstream of the transport and folding blade cylinder 623 takes place z.
  • the cross-folded intermediate products 616 leaving the folding jaw cylinder 321 can be delivered directly or preferably indirectly via a paddle wheel 628 to the product delivery 629, to a conveyor section upstream of the delivery 629, for example formed by a belt system, or directly to or into a storage device 700.
  • a longitudinal cutting device 604 can be arranged downstream of the transverse folding device 602, through which the transversely folded and possibly previously collected and/or pre-collected intermediate products 616 are finally cut into z.
  • the desired products P, z. B. tabloid products P(T) or in particular book products P(B) forming product sections can be cut.
  • the further processing section 003 can include a conditioning stage 509 embodied as a perforating and/or creasing device 513 in the printing substrate path upstream of the cross-cutting device 513, through which at least one perforating or creasing tool is used to cut the printing substrate 002 can be perforated or scored in a line running between two adjacent printed pages.
  • This setup can optionally be run through inactively.
  • upstream of the collecting device 601 referred to here as the main collecting device 601 and z. B. downstream of the optionally provided cross cutting device 513 another collecting device 603, z. B. pre-collecting device 603 may be provided.
  • this can in principle also be designed as a rotating collecting cylinder, but is preferably designed here as a collecting device 603 comprising collecting pockets, in which a number of successive ones in the material flow are stacked or batched or multi-layer sections 002',k can be pre-collected to section bundles 617.
  • the pre-collecting device 603 can optionally be passed through inactively.
  • further processing section 003, in particular gathering and/or folding section 600 includes - with or without the provision of a perforating and/or creasing device and with or without the presence of a longitudinal cutting device 604 and with or without the presence of a pre-collecting device 603 on the printing material path, upstream of the cross-folding device 602 and downstream of a provided cross-cutting device 513, at least one device 606 connecting a plurality of layers collected one on top of the other; 607, in particular a cross-stapling device 606; 607 formed stapler 606; 607, include. This can optionally be run through inactively.
  • multi-layer sections 002',k or bundles of sections 617 formed upstream by pre-collecting are to be stapled transversely with at least one, preferably at least two staples 653 spaced apart transversely to the transport direction F.
  • the transverse stitching device 606 is instead or additionally set up to staple the sections 002', k or 617, which in this case may be two-page widths, transversely on each of the widths of a printed page with at least one, preferably at least two staples spaced transversely to the transport direction T.
  • a transverse stapling device 607 in the embodiment of the section stapler 607 described above can be integrated into the transverse folding device 602 designed as a collecting and folding device 602, for example by the stapling cylinder 644 being equipped with z.
  • the stapling cylinder 644 being equipped with z.
  • at least two or - in the case of two-page-wide sections 002',k or section bundles 617 - at least four stapling heads spaced apart from one another in the axial direction interact with the circumference of the transport and folding blade cylinder 623 or a point on the circumference that is designed as a closer.
  • the further processing section 003, in particular the collecting and/or folding section 600 can comprise a second processing line, on which the products P(B); P(T) deviating second products P(Z), e.g. B. from a printing material web 002' with printed pages printed on web 002 in an upright arrangement, ie with a page height running in the direction of transport of the printed pages forming the product pages.
  • a first part of the further processing stages relating to the second processing line can be carried out by further processing stages located in the first processing line, e.g. B. an optionally provided cross-cutting device 513 and/or an optionally provided perforating or creasing device 509 and/or an optionally provided collecting device 603, in particular pre-collecting device 603.
  • further processing stages located in the first processing line e.g. B. an optionally provided cross-cutting device 513 and/or an optionally provided perforating or creasing device 509 and/or an optionally provided collecting device 603, in particular pre-collecting device 603.
  • this second processing section e.g. B.
  • At least one folding device 609 downstream of a cross-cutting device 513 that may be provided and downstream of a collecting device 29 and preferably upstream of the cross-folding device 602 provided in the first processing line, at least one folding device 609, in particular a first longitudinal folding device 609 used in the course of the second processing line, is provided, by which a - in particular only longitudinally but not transversely - folded intermediate product 656 can be produced and delivered on the output side.
  • a further, e.g. B. second longitudinal folding device 612 is provided, the two longitudinal folding devices 609; 612 are oriented, for example, perpendicular to one another with regard to the course of the fold to be produced.
  • the first and/or the second longitudinal folding device 609 provided in the second processing line; 612 can in principle be designed in any configuration, but is preferably also designed as knife folding device 609; 612 executed.
  • the intermediate products 656, which have been folded lengthways once can be conveyed—possibly indirectly via a so-called bucket wheel—via a conveying section 613 with the conveying direction F′ perpendicular to the previous conveying direction F to the second longitudinal folding device 33 .
  • a conveying section 613 with the conveying direction F′ perpendicular to the previous conveying direction F to the second longitudinal folding device 33 .
  • the so-called reading or spine fold R the so-called transport fold M is formed by the second longitudinal folding device 612.
  • the second processing line may also include perforating or creasing device 509 and/or also collecting device 603 and advantageously the one second longitudinal folding device 612.
  • both the first and the second longitudinal folding device 609; 612 lie in the printing material or conveying path exclusively assigned to the second processing section.
  • the first longitudinal folding device 513 is arranged in the printed material or conveying path which is also assigned to the first processing line.
  • this first longitudinal folding device 609 can be used to produce the first product P(T); P(B) can be or will be run through inactively on the first processing path.
  • a pressing device 614 downstream of the printing material path, in particular between the two longitudinal folding devices 609; 612 and/or downstream of the second longitudinal folding device 612, a pressing device 614 can be provided.
  • the collecting and/or folding section 600 can, for example in accordance with 19 and 20 for the first embodiment, in particular on the output side of the cross-folding device 602 with a product diverter 633, to convey the intermediate products 616 cross-folded in the first processing line to a downstream longitudinal folding device 608 or, if applicable, as products 616 to a belt system, not shown, to a product display or, if applicable, as a to feed two-page-wide intermediate products 657 that still have to be cut lengthwise to a conveyor section leading to the lengthwise cutting device 604 that may be provided.
  • the above-mentioned maximum section length I002',k to be processed in further processing section 003, in particular in collecting and/or folding section 600 corresponds, for example, to the maximum for printing by upstream printing press 001 or printing unit 200; 400 provided variable pressure section lengths L D.
  • L D variable pressure section lengths
  • 400 is the pressure section lengths L D not by the printing unit 200; 400 limited, but for the production of e.g. B. medial printed products P with regard to the design and dimensioning of one or more further processing stages of the further processing section 003, in particular of the collecting and/or folding section 600, is limited by the range of common and sensible products in the product spectrum in the required dimensions.
  • the maximum section length I002',k to be processed and the associated fixed or preferably maximum for printing by the printing unit 200; 400 or the printing machine 001 provided printing section lengths L D are in the range above for the printing section lengths L D in the first embodiment.
  • the fixed or preferably maximum section length I002',k to be processed and the associated fixed or preferably maximum for printing by the printing unit 200; 400 or the printing machine 001 provided printing section lengths L D at z. B. 600 to 670 mm, in particular at 630 ⁇ 10 mm.
  • variable print section lengths L D this is given, for example, by a length of 420 to 480 mm, in particular by a length of 450 ⁇ 10 mm.
  • a multi-width printing press or printing unit 200 can be used for the in 25 indicated case of a multi-width printing press 001 and/or a multi-width printing assembly 200; 400 and with e.g. B. a print pattern of here, for example, more than two, z. B.
  • a longitudinal cutting device 506 for longitudinal cutting of the wider printed original web 002' into partial webs printed with two sides next to one another, for example, and a combining device 502 designed, for example, as a turning device 502; 503; 504 for superimposing one partial web produced by a longitudinal cut on another.
  • the longitudinal cutting device 506 and the combining device 502 can be assigned to a strand guiding and/or forming section 500 mentioned above.
  • a folding device embodied as a plow folding device can be provided in the printing material path instead of the longitudinal cutting device 506 and the turning device 502.
  • the further processing stages mentioned, provided for the collecting and/or folding section 600 in addition to the pre-collecting device 603 and one or more devices 606; 607 for connecting several layers, a main gathering device 601, a transverse folding device 602 and a section gathering device, one or more longitudinal folding devices 608; 609; 612 and/or a longitudinal cutting device 604 in or on a common one-part or multi-part frame 657 in the form of a unit 658, for example a collecting and folding unit 658, in particular a folder 658.
  • a first further processing stage of the folding unit provided in the printing material path can be B. by a transverse folding device 602 or preferably by a collecting device 601 arranged upstream of it; 603 be formed.
  • the upstream conveyor line 638 can also be part of the folding unit 658.
  • cross-cutting device 513 can be structurally assigned to folding unit 658 and form the first further processing stage 513 of the folding unit provided in the printing material path.
  • the at least one transverse stapling device 606; 607 upstream printing press 001 is the at least one transverse stapling device 606; 607 set up for this purpose and arranged in the printing material path, sections a, i; 002',k or bundles 617 along one or along several stitching tracks HS1 running next to one another; staple HS2.
  • the cross stitching device 606; 607 designed to be divided into at least two sections a, i; 002',k or bundles 617 of the same single, the same outer or the same inner staple track HS1; Stitching attributable to HS2, in particular without interrupting the production purchase, with a - based on the multi-layer section a,i; 002',k or the bundle 617 - to be introduced in mutually different and/or varying lateral positions.
  • stapling means 653 or stapling in the sections a, i; 002',k or bundle 617 hereinafter also referred to as stapled material section a,i; 002',k; 617 or briefly as staples a,i; 002',k; 617, can be introduced, which - based on the number and sequence of the tacking points to be provided per section or bundle in the transverse direction - have the same tacking track HS1; HS2 are to be attributed, however - in relation to the specific lateral position in section a, i to be stapled; 002',k or bundle 617 - are not in the same alignment but offset to one another are.
  • This advantageous embodiment of the cross stitching device 606; 607 can in principle, e.g. g. as a ribbon stapler comprising a stapling cylinder 644 and a locking cylinder that interacts with the stapling cylinder 644, in a ribbon path of the web-type printing substrate 002' that has not yet been cut crosswise.
  • this is preferably in the form of a so-called layer stitcher 606; 607 and comprises a stapling cylinder 644 which is connected to a folding cylinder 623; 649, in particular a collecting cylinder 623; 649 operable folding cylinder 623; 649, as a lock cylinder 623; 649 works together.
  • cross stitcher 606; 607 with staggered and/or relocatable track alignments already considered an advantageous solution for forming a cross stitching device 606; 607, it can be used in particular in conjunction with one or more of the above-mentioned at least one transverse stapling device 606; 607 comprehensive versions, developments and variants of the further processing section 003 develop special advantages.
  • the stitching device 606; 607 is explained below with reference to the embodiment as a layer stitcher, with the explanation given for the stitching cylinder 644 and the stitching supply also being applicable to a stitching cylinder 644 that interacts with a closing cylinder in the strand path.
  • the stapler 606; 607 comprises a rotatable body 644, also referred to as stapling cylinder 644, with at least two stapling devices 662, which are offset from one another in the circumferential direction and each comprise at least one or a group of stapling tools 659, in particular stapling heads 659, arranged next to one another in the axial direction, with the number of stapling devices used by the stapling device 662 included stitching heads 658 z.
  • Each stapling device 662 includes one of the number of required stapling lanes HS1; HS2 corresponding number of stapling tools.
  • the stapling heads 659 or groups of stapling heads 659 are arranged in the peripheral area of the rotatable stapling cylinder 644 in such a way that when the stapling head 659 passes through the nip with the locking cylinder 623; 649 the stapling means 653 can be driven through the material to be sewn and, for example, in the case of the above-mentioned Expression as staples 653 on the back with the staples 653 closing abutments 661, z. B. so-called.
  • Closing plates 661 acts together.
  • the locking plates 661 are on the circumference of the lock cylinder 623; 649 provided at the corresponding points by rolling with the stitching heads of the stitching cylinder 644.
  • the lock cylinder 623; 649 can be multi-circumference, i. H. have several closing plates 661 or groups of closing plates 661 arranged axially next to one another in a row in the circumferential direction.
  • the stapling cylinder 644 is also multi-circumference, in particular with at least a double, z. B. a double or triple circumference and comprises viewed in the circumferential direction at least two, z. B. two or three stapling devices 662, each with at least one or a group of stapling tools 659. These stapling devices 662 are viewed in the circumferential direction z. B. arranged equidistantly.
  • the stapling tools 659 of two stapling devices 662 to be assigned are now offset from one another by at least a length L V , viewed in the axial direction of stapling cylinder 44, which is at least the length, preferably at least five quarters, in particular at least one and a half times the length of a stapling means 653 in its inserted and closed position state corresponds.
  • This length L V of the offset which is measured, for example, between the ends of the offset fastening means 653 pointing in the same direction, preferably corresponds to no more than six times, in particular no more than three times, the length of the closed fastening means 653 running in the direction of the basting line h .
  • the respective stapling head 659 of the stapling device 606; 607 works during operation - e.g. B. by a provided on the stapling head 659 stapling element 663, z. g. a setting die 663 - together with the corresponding closing element 661 (see e.g. 26 ).
  • the stitching cylinder 644 carrying the at least one setting stamp 663 and the locking cylinder 623 carrying the at least one locking plate 661; 649 are therefore arranged relative to one another and rotated during operation in such a way that the setting die 663 and closing element move between the stitching cylinder 644 and the closing cylinder 623; 649 opposite.
  • a staple 653 accommodated in the stapling head 659 is driven through the stapled goods a,i; 002',k; 617 is pushed through and the legs passing through are bent on the closing plate 661.
  • the stapling device 606, 607 is designed with a stapling cylinder 644, which acts together with a stapling wire feed 664 in the area of its setting die 663.
  • the stapling heads 659 of the stapling devices include - e.g. B.
  • a guide section 668 is provided, for example.
  • a drive 669 which in particular interacts with the stitching wire 667 and has, for example, a common motor 671 or a separate motor 671, e.g. B. an electric motor 671, in particular a servomotor 671 that can be angularly regulated with regard to forward and backward travel.
  • the motor 671 can drive a pair of rollers that clamp the stitching wire 667 .
  • an electric motor 671 is provided for driving each pair of rollers comprised by the drive 669.
  • the drives of the number of stapling tracks HS1; HS2 corresponding stitching wires 667 done by the same motor 671.
  • the stitching wire 667 is driven into the movement path of a stitching track HS1; HS2 spent stapling head 659 to be attributed, where it is sheared off and taken up by the stapling head 659 as a piece of wire.
  • the piece of wire cut off and picked up by the stitching head 659 concerned is, in the course of the rotation of the stitching cylinder 644, moved by the stitching head 659 to form elements 672 provided in the movement path, e.g. B. forming rollers 672, which form the pieces of wire in cooperation with the past moving stapling head 659 to the staples 653 to be inserted.
  • Stitching heads 659 which are to be assigned to HS2 but are axially offset relative to one another, are supplied with the stitching wire 667 from the same stitching wire supply via the same guide section 668.
  • a guide section 674 e.g. g.
  • a guide tube section 674 in the form of a guide tube section 674, whose inlet opening facing guide section 668 is aligned with the outlet of guide section 674 forming cutting nozzle 673 and whose opposite end opening 676 is also designed, for example, as so-called cutting nozzle 676 and is axially in or directly in front of a through the path of movement of the cutting blade 666 formed alignment 666 of another stapling head 659 is, although - based on the number and order of each section or bundle to be provided tacking points in the transverse direction - the same stitching track HS1; HS2 as the first stitching head 659 is to be attributed, but in a line HS1.2 that is further away from the first end face; HS1.1; HS2.2; HS2.1 of this staple track HS1; HS2 lies.
  • a length I674 of the guide section 674 viewed in the axial direction corresponds to e.g. B. essentially the distance, viewed in the axial direction, between the facing ends of the same stitching track HS1; Stitching heads to be attributed to HS2 659.
  • a further guide section can be connected in the same way with one end aligned with a third stapling head 659 associated with the same stapling track HS1, HS2, HS2.
  • the staple 653 is in the first line HS1.1; HS2.1 of the staple track in question HS1; HS2 in the stapled material a,i; 002',k; 617 introduced (see e.g. schematically in 28a ).
  • the staple 653 provided in the second stapling tool 659 is in the second alignment HS1.2; HS2.2 of the staple track in question HS2; HS1 in the stapled material a,i; 002',k; 617 introduced (see e.g. schematically in Figure 28b ).
  • a stapling tool 659 and/or a third stapling device 663 is provided in a third alignment, the process described for the second stapling tool 659 can be repeated accordingly.
  • the stapling wire 667 is attached to the stapling tool 659 of the second or last escape of the relevant staple track HS1; HS2 is brought back into the path of movement of the first stapling tool 659 provided in the first row by moving it backwards, so that the leading end again forms one of the ends of the staple wire piece to be formed into the staple 653 after it has been sheared off.
  • HS2 can also be in a sequence that deviates from the sequence mentioned, for example first a forward movement from one outermost line to the other and then a multi-stage backward movement of the stitching wire 667.
  • the at least one drive means 671 embodied, for example, as a drive motor, or its drive controller, which causes the advancement of the stitching wire 667, comprises control means 678 or is connected by signaling to such control means 678, by means of which the drive motor 671 can be controlled or is controlled in such a way that a flow of printing material to the printing material flow clocked feed of the stitching wire 667 in the guide path 668 both forward, d. H. towards its exit, as well as backwards, d. H. back into the guide track, takes place.
  • the control means 678 can be formed by a correspondingly set up control circuit and/or preferably by a control routine implemented in a data processing means. Position information ⁇ on the flow of printing material to be stapled and/or on the angular position of locking cylinder 623; 649 be or are supplied. Furthermore, the control means 678 can send information relating to the product P to be manufactured about the required stapling lines h and/or the stapling rhythm and/or possibly a stapling offset or control data and/or signals SW that have already been prepared accordingly - via a signal connection, for example, from a higher-level Control device 802 forth - be or be forwarded.
  • the stapling cylinder 644 is directly or indirectly by a drive from the lock cylinder 623; 649 mechanically independent drive motor 677, in particular at least speed-controllable, preferably angular position controllable electric motor 677, z. B. Servomotor 677, can be driven in rotation.
  • mechanically independent drive motor 677 in particular at least speed-controllable, preferably angular position controllable electric motor 677, z. B.
  • Servomotor 677 can be driven in rotation.
  • consecutive copies of the same first layer of staples 653 and, optionally, consecutive copies of the staples with the first and a second layer of staples 653 offset therefrom can be produced in this way, for example.
  • the stapling cylinder 644 is or can be operated, for example between two stapling processes, at a higher average peripheral speed than in the first operating mode, for example accelerated or can be accelerated between the stapling processes, so that the following stapling copy can be used again with the stapling device or another stapling device 663 is ready with the first layer of staples 653 in the nip point 664.
  • the speed and/or acceleration profile required for this can be superimposed, for example, on the synchronization that may be provided via the drive data and/or signals S L .
  • the stapling tools 659 of one or more of the stapling devices 663 are designed to be adjustable in their axial position.
  • the setting can preferably be designed or take place by motor and/or remote control.
  • the setting can take place on the basis of data d W originating from the control and/or planning system 004 and relating to the further processing for the product P to be manufactured.
  • control means 678 - In a first mode of operation, information or control data and/or control signals SW , for example, is or are fed to control means 678 - via a signal connection, for example, from a higher-level control device 802 - which a first stapling sequence, for example stapling of each item to be stapled with the same layer of single or multiple stapling.
  • a second mode of operation which is different from the first mode of operation, the control means 678 are or are provided with e.g. B.
  • Information or control data and/or signals S W are sent which require a second stapling sequence, for example stapling a first item to be stapled with a first layer of single or multiple stapling and stapling a next item to be stapled with a layer different from the first layer single or multiple stapling.
  • a corresponding control of the respective, The motor 671 that causes the stitching wire feed and/or the drive motor 677 that causes the rotational movement of the stitching cylinder 644 takes place using this information or control data and/or signals SW and/or using the position information ⁇ and/or the drive data and/or signals S L .
  • printing substrates 002 with, in the transport direction F; F' can be printed with virtually unlimited print lengths or in any desired print length by one or more from the printing unit 200; 400 or printing unit 211; 411 comprised imaging device 212; 412 are or can be continuously acted upon by control data and/or signals S D that build up the print image and therefore the length of the corresponding print image is not limited by a repetition length.
  • an embodiment of the further processing section 003 in particular in one of the aforementioned embodiment variants—is of great advantage that reflects this through high variability and/or production variety.
  • this setting can be carried out manually on site, but preferably from the control and/or planning system 004 by transmitting corresponding control data and/or signals SW directly or indirectly to the drive or positions at the affected handling or processing stage 502; 503; 504; 506; 507; 508; 509; 511; 512; 513; 601; 602; 603; 604; 606; 607; 608; 609; 611; 612 effecting drive or actuating means.
  • a handling or processing stage 502; 503; 504; 506; 507; 508; 509; 511; 512; 513; 601; 602; 603; 604; 606; 607; 608; 609; 611; 612 as well as a handling or processing means should - unless expressly stated otherwise - also include a processing step or a processing stage and a processing means in which or in which or through which the printing substrate 002' or the intermediate product is not (mechanically ) edited but processed, e.g. B. is combined with other copies or further processed.
  • the printing machine 001 working—possibly, inter alia—according to a non-impact method, preferably working according to the inkjet or inkjet method, or the printing unit 200 working according to a non-impact method, in particular working according to the inkjet or inkjet method; 400 and/or printing unit 211; 411, in particular by the printing unit 200; 400 and/or the printing unit 211; 411 comprised imaging device 212; 412 is directly or indirectly in signal connection with a z.
  • a data processing device 900 embodied imaging control device 900, image control device 900 for short.
  • the control takes place via printing-system-specific control data and/or control signals S D , which are obtained in the image control device 900 from data d D relating to the image information of the print image to be printed.
  • This data d D relating to the image information of the print image to be printed can in turn be based on a digital description of the printed product P to be produced and/or the print job to be processed and/or be provided in PostScript or PDF format, for example.
  • the print data d D of the print job provided for the print job in digitized form is or is to be processed in image control unit 900 by means of appropriately configured data processing means implemented and/or provided in image control unit 900, for example by means of a digital image controller (DIC).
  • the printing-system-specific control data and/or signals S D are converted or can be converted and sent by the imaging device 212; 412 included on site or the imaging device 212; 412 in the signal path between the image control device 900 and the imaging device 212; 412 provided control means 213; 413 submitted.
  • the transmission to the control means and the further processing of the signal preferably takes place and feeding switching elements assigned to the imaging elements in real time or via a real-time-capable design of the relevant signal lines and/or control means.
  • the data dD relating to the print image can be made available to image control device 900 as a permanent data stream or with intermediate storage of the entire print job or the entire product P or relevant data dD or successive parts of this data dD in one of image control device 900 to be attributed to or in signal connection with this data memory.
  • the data d D can be transmitted as a whole or successively to the image control device 900 via a signal connection, for example via an interface to an external data network, from outside the print shop or preferably from internal print shop sources.
  • the activation of the imaging device 212; 412 by image control system 900 is strictly correlated to the operation of printing press 001 and/or the subsequent inline processing section 003 controlled by press control 800, in particular to the printing substrate feed in the printing substrate path at the level of imaging device 212; 412.
  • Printing press 001, in particular imaging device 212; 412 control data and/or control signals S D obtained from product-specific print data d D are thus supplied from the image control device 900 for the present print job.
  • the adjustment and control of further processing section 003 or of drive or adjusting means of one or more handling or processing means of one or more of the available handling and/or processing stages 502; 503; 504; 506; 507; 508; 509; 511; 512; 513; 601; 602; 603; 604; 606; 607; 608; 609; 611; 612 or the handling and/or processing steps of the further processing section 003 relevant to the product P are carried out entirely or at least predominantly by the operating personnel at a central operating interface 1000 of the production line or at a higher-level operating interface assigned to the further processing section or, if necessary, decentrally at operating points of one or more summarized handling or processing steps.
  • the setting and/or operating parameters specific to the product P to be created can be created centrally as data d W relevant for further processing by operating personnel via a corresponding interface and/or selected from templates, or - in a preferred further development - in the course of product planning or in the course of further data processing of product-relevant data dP relating to the product P, obtained under computer control or at least with computer support, for example converted into corresponding control data and/or signals SW , and individual drive or actuating means 527; 529; 532; 534; 537; 671 or their (local) control means 526; 528; 531; 533; 536; 538; 678; 682; 683; 684 are or can be routed to the or a plurality of the relevant handling or processing means.
  • the printing unit 211; 411 there is no geometrically conditioned limitation of a print length, as is the case with an imaging printing form in printing form-bound printing processes due to the maximum repetition length, but the print image is determined solely by the sequence of control data and/or control signals S D obtained from the data describing the print image , lies in the direction of the relative movement, ie along the printing material transport direction F, in principle there is no restriction in the print length by the printing unit 211; 411, ie an otherwise given maximum repeat length.
  • Successive print sections a,i can have the same print section length L D,i and/or all or some of them have different print section lengths L D,i .
  • variable print section lengths L D i and/or design print content and/or print section lengths L D, i consecutive print sections a,i without repeat lengths.
  • the total width of the printed image e.g. B.
  • the width of a continuous motif or print image across the web width b002 or the width resulting from the number and width of several motifs or print images to be printed side by side in the width b002 on the printing substrate 002, for example printed pages of one or more products P to be produced, is within the can be varied by the maximum printing material width b002 max and, if applicable, the minimum required printing material width b002 min and/or within the possible printing width b D .
  • the printed product can be given by a printed film or paper web, such as can be used for lamination, coating or packaging.
  • this printed product can, for example, be cut transversely into desired section lengths and/or wound up to form rolls.
  • the printing substrate 002 to be processed consists of a sheet or web-type delivery and already printed printing substrate 002', e.g. g. a stack of printed sheets 002' or a roll of already printed web-type printing material 002', or as preferred here as printed printing material 002, e.g. g.
  • newspaper products P(Z) and/or unstapled or preferably stapled so-called tabloid products P(T), such as newspapers, magazines, small-format newspapers or advertising supplements, and/or here as Printed products P(B) referred to as book products P(B) are produced or can be produced with the respective product structure typical for this.
  • tabloid product is intended here to equally include the products of the product range produced in so-called illustration printing.
  • the newspaper product P(Z) includes, for example, several, e.g. B. two or in particular more than two, multi-layer sections z1 folded in each case on the so-called spine fold R(Z), also referred to below as reading fold R(Z); z2; z3, also known colloquially as "books” z1; z2; z3 of the newspaper, which are collected and/or arranged one on top of the other when closed at the reading fold R(Z).
  • these several sections - especially still in the inline process of the further processing section 003 and/or before delivery to an output section or a bookbinding section that may be included in the print shop - are preferably together at the so-called transport fold M(Z) transverse to the reading fold R(Z) and/or in the middle range, i. H. for example running within the middle fifth of the page height, folded.
  • the "reading fold” R is here and in the following understood to be the fold that runs in the orientation of the product P in the direction of the page height and/or perpendicular to the line extension that is predominantly and/or typically present for the product P in text passages that may be included .
  • the so-called tabloid products P(T) are e.g. B. one or more multi-layer, respectively on the so-called.
  • Back fold R (Z) hereinafter also referred to as reading fold R (Z)
  • folded section or sections also called “booklet” or “booklet” called, for the case several such sections are arranged one on top of the other in the closed state at the reading fold R(Z).
  • the layers of the section can be advantageous by stitching or gluing -. B. along a running in the reading fold R (T) connecting line v by one or preferably more stitching points or by an interrupted or continuous gluing - be at least partially or preferably all connected to each other.
  • Such a tabloid product P(T) can also be a sub-product P of a product to be combined downstream or at a later point in time with other and/or different sub-products P to form an end product.
  • the printed product P(B) formed by a book product P(B) is, for example, multi-layered in the closed state, in particular multi-layered, i.e. at least or exactly eight-layer, printed, printed part or -print intermediate product P, whose at least eight layers in the area of the reading fold R(B) are connected in pairs at the reading fold R(B) and whose layers in the head or foot area are either connected in pairs via an auxiliary fold H to be formed in front of the reading fold R (e.g.
  • trimming line s B also inline or in an independent post-processing, e.g. B. a downstream bookbinding stage or a bookbinding, are to be separated or are already separated or can be separated inline by trimming in the further processing stage 003 itself or in a subsequent inline bookbinding stage.
  • in the further processing stage 003 inline - at least as a temporarily present intermediate product - is an above-mentioned eight- or at least eight-layer, in the header or footer area the still intermediate book product P(B) with an untrimmed auxiliary fold H, which can already represent the printed product P(B) to be delivered on the output side of further processing 003 to the customer or an independently working post-processing, or inline in the further processing stage 003 and/or one of the further processing stage 003 inline downstream trimmed in the bookbinding stage at least in the area of the auxiliary fold H and possibly completed by collecting several such intermediate book products (P(B) and/or by adding a cover or book cover and/or by binding to a e.g.
  • printing material 002' printed with printed images of printed pages of a newspaper format f(Z) in a preferably vertical page arrangement, in particular by means of an above-mentioned printing press 001. preferably fed inline to a further processing section 003 on the input side, which is preferably designed in one of the above-mentioned embodiments, developments and variants, and to the desired product P(Z), here e.g. B. a newspaper product P (Z) processed.
  • Sections 616 are not produced by collecting a plurality of funnel strands in the strand path upstream of the cross-cutting device, but rather by collecting already cross-folded Sections 616 in processing section 600, which is configured in particular as folding unit 658.
  • a z. B. printing substrate 002 in the form of a web is printed in succession in the printing press 001 with the printed images of the sections, in particular initially with all of the printed images of the one a later newspaper section z1, z2; z3 forming section 616 associated print pages before they are printed with the print images of another, z. B. in the product P(Z) to be produced, the newspaper section z1 lying directly above or below; z2; z3 forming section 616 is printed.
  • one or more of the printing unit 200; 400 or printing unit 211; 411 comprised imaging devices 212; 412 is or can be acted upon with the control data and/or signals S D relating to the printed pages of a Section 616 to be produced first and then with the control data and/or signals S D relating to the printed pages of another Section 616 to be produced, of the product P(Z) to be produced .
  • a second embodiment and/or mode of operation of further processing section 003 which can take the place of the first embodiment and/or mode of operation, but can preferably be executed as an alternative to the first, for example for the production of tabloid products P(T), a above-mentioned printing machine 001, printing material 002' previously printed with printed images of printed pages of a tabloid format f(T), preferably inline, is fed to the further processing section 003 on the input side, which is preferably embodied in one of the above-mentioned embodiments, developments and variants, and to the desired product P(T) , here e.g. B. a tabloid product P(Z) processed.
  • a single-layer or, in the case of a previous combination, multi-layer section 002',k which can be formed by sheets 002',k or web sections 002',k, in a for example the above-mentioned collection device 601; 603 to form a bundle 617 of two or more such single-layer or multi-layer sections 002',k, this bundle 617 possibly depending on the requirement in a cross-stapling device 606; 607 - e.g. B.
  • a folding jaw cylinder 621 - is folded transversely to form a booklet 616 corresponding to a section 616, which can already form the product P(T) to be produced and leaves the further processing section 003 via a product delivery 637, for example, or in an alternative processing line using, for example, a
  • the aforementioned longitudinal folding device 608 is folded longitudinally to form a transport fold M before the product P(T) produced in this way leaves the further processing section 003, for example via a product delivery 637 (see e.g. 30 ).
  • the further processing section 003 that further develops the second embodiment and/or mode of operation, which can also take the place of the first and/or the second embodiment and/or mode of operation mentioned above, but can preferably be implemented alternatively to the first-mentioned and second embodiment and/or mode of operation mentioned above , becomes, a single-layer or, in the case of a previous combination, multi-layer section 002',k, which can be formed by sheets 002',k or web sections 002',k, is formed into a bundle 617 of two or more such single-layer or multi-layer sections 002',k collected, this bundle 617 in, for example, the above-mentioned cross stitching device 606; 607 - e.g. B.
  • a single-layer or, for the case in which this embodiment or mode of operation is to be preferred, a previous combination of partial and/or original webs 002', preferably multi-layer section 002',k, which is formed by sheets 002',k or web sections 002', k can be formed in, for example, the aforementioned collection device 601; 603 to form a bundle 617 of two or more such single-layer or multi-layer sections 002',k, collect these bundles 617 in a cross-folding device 602 mentioned above, for example--e.g. g.
  • the product P(B) produced in this way has, as an intermediate product P, a fold to be trimmed along a trimming line s B , which is trimmed either in a trimming machine that follows in further processing (not shown here) or by the customer during the completion of salable books becomes.
  • a fourth embodiment and/or mode of operation (see e.g. Figure 33 ) of the further processing section 003, which can take the place of the first and/or second embodiment and/or mode of operation and its development, but can preferably be executable for the first-mentioned and/or second-mentioned and/or its further-developing embodiment and/or mode of operation,
  • special products P(B) such as large-format advertising inserts
  • a printing substrate 002' previously printed with print images from printed pages of such a special format f(B), in particular using an above-mentioned printing press 001 is preferably fed inline to further processing section 003 on the input side, which is preferably fed in a of the above versions, developments and variants is formed, and the desired product P (B), here z.
  • a single-layer or multi-layer printing substrate 002' is first folded by means of a longitudinal folding device 504; 508, which can be formed by an above-mentioned former 504 or a plow folding device 508, is folded longitudinally.
  • the - possibly after longitudinally folded section 002',k which is preferably formed by one or possibly by a plurality of longitudinally folded sheets 002',k or web sections 002',k lying one inside the other, is cut in a transverse folding device 602, for example, as mentioned above, e.g. B.
  • the product P(S) produced in this way leaves the further processing section 003 via a product delivery 637, for example (see e.g. Figure 33 ).
  • the productions mentioned can preferably be carried out by means of a further processing section 003 in an embodiment as set out for the above-mentioned first embodiment in the first group of exemplary embodiments, developments and variants (see e.g. Figures 19 to 23 ).
  • the newspaper, tabloid or book products P(Z); P(T); Products P to be manufactured P(B) can alternatively be carried out by means of a further processing section 003 in an embodiment as set out for the second embodiment mentioned above (see e.g. Figures 19 to 24 and 25 ).
  • printing material is printed with printed images of printed pages of a newspaper format f(Z) in a preferred upright page arrangement 002', preferably fed inline to a further processing section 003 on the input side, which is preferably designed in one of the above-mentioned embodiments, developments and variants, and to the desired product P(Z), here z.
  • a newspaper product P (Z) processed is preferably designed in one of the above-mentioned embodiments, developments and variants, and to the desired product P(Z), here z.
  • a device not shown, designed, for example, as a longitudinal stapling device, can be provided for connecting a plurality of layers.
  • the bundle 617 is connected continuously or at two or more points along a stapling line running in the transport direction F before it is folded, for example, by the above-mentioned first longitudinal folding device 609. The rest of the process corresponds to what was already mentioned above for the variant of the second embodiment and/or mode of operation.
  • further processing section 003 which can take the place of the first and/or second embodiment and/or mode of operation and its development, but preferably optionally for the first-mentioned and/or second-mentioned and/or its further-developing embodiment and/or mode of operation can be implemented, for example for the production of book products P(B), a printing substrate 002' that has previously been printed with printed images of printed pages of a book format f(B), in particular by means of an above-mentioned printing press 001, is preferably fed inline to the further processing section 003 on the input side, which is preferably designed in one of the above versions, developments and variants, and the desired product P (B), here z.
  • single-layer sections 002′,k or in the case of a previous combination, multi-layer sections 002′,k, which can be formed by sheets 002′,k or web sections 002′,k, can be formed in a, for example, above-mentioned, z.
  • pre-collecting device 603 comprising collection pockets, to form a bundle 617 of two or more such single-layer or multi-layer sections 002',k.
  • this bundle 617 can be stapled in a cross stitching device 606; 607 - e.g. B.
  • a collecting cylinder 623; 649 - to be stapled crosswise into bundles 617' crosswise.
  • the optionally stapled bundles 617; 617' are then processed in a cross-folding device 602 mentioned above, for example--e.g. B. by transfer to a jaw cylinder 621 - folded to a booklet 616 across.
  • this booklet 616 - in this case two page lengths wide - is cut lengthwise into two booklet sections, one page high, using a longitudinal cutting device 604, for example, as mentioned above
  • Product P(B) leaves the further processing section 003 via a product display (see e.g. Figure 35 ).
  • the product P(B) produced in this way has no fold to be trimmed and can directly represent the end product to be made available to the end customer or an intermediate product P(B) to be further processed, for example in a bookbinding section.
  • a transverse folding device 602 is provided as a first folding device provided in the processing line.
  • a longitudinal folding device 609 which is different from a former and has a folding blade 641, is provided as a first folding device provided in the processing line.
  • the production mentioned in each case and its variant can be used for the respective product P(Z); P(T); P(B); P(S) in respective formats f(Z); f(T); f(B); f(S) be designed and/or operated with varying dimensions.
  • respective products P'(Z);P'(T);P'(B);P'(S) be manufactured or productions carried out or - e.g. B. in the first, second and third above-mentioned embodiment - be or will be produced, which have a side height that is lower than a first and/or maximum side height.
  • a relevant digital print job is provided, for example, in the control and/or planning system 004.
  • This can e.g. B. in a print data provision section 1100 included in the control and/or planning system 004 (see e.g. Figure 36 ) created and created, created in a product planning 1200 included in the control and/or planning system 004, created and exported for further processing or imported from an external source.
  • this print job is and/or preferably contains information on the product design, e.g.
  • B Information on the product type A ⁇ t ⁇ and/or information on the print page format A ⁇ f ⁇ and/or information A ⁇ a ⁇ on the product structure, such as e.g. B. Information on the number of product pages and/or information on the arrangement of the product pages in the product P and any existing stitching structure in the finished product P, and/or information A ⁇ S m ⁇ on the manufacture of the product P in further processing (also "Finishing ") are assigned to required handling and/or processing stages or to handling and/or processing steps to be carried out.
  • the digitized page content for the individual product pages can also already be contained in the data d P for describing the print job as such or preferably in the form of clear references to corresponding objects or - instead or in part additionally to this - from another data source the control and/or or planning system 004, e.g. B. imported into the print data provision section 1100 comprised by the control and/or planning system 004 or only generated there in whole or in part.
  • the control and/or or planning system 004 e.g. B. imported into the print data provision section 1100 comprised by the control and/or planning system 004 or only generated there in whole or in part.
  • the information A ⁇ t ⁇ ; A ⁇ f ⁇ ; A ⁇ a ⁇ ; A ⁇ S m ⁇ are thus reflected in the data d W relating to further processing, from which, for example, the relevant settings and/or parameterizations are derived.
  • An appropriately set up interface is provided in the respective signal connection for data exchange in JDF format.
  • the print data d D included or provided by the digital description of the printed product P to be produced are—processed accordingly to print system-specific control data and/or control signals S D —synchronized with the relative movement between imaging device 212; 412 and printing substrate 002 to be printed, in particular synchronized with the printing substrate feed, with a print pattern specified directly or indirectly by the control and/or planning system 004, in particular by the print data supply section 1100, and successively continuing in the direction of the relative movement.
  • the print image created on the printing material 002 can be a quasi-endless one or at least one with z. B.
  • the dimensions, e.g. the page format, and the number of the plurality of printed page images to be arranged or arranged one behind the other and/or next to one another on printing substrate 002 can be freely configured and/or selected within the limits defined by the smaller of the maximum print width b D and/or the maximum or .Available substrate width b002 max ; b002 and possibly by the minimum width of printing material that can be processed b002 max ; b002 and, if applicable, by the length of printing material l02 measured in the direction of the relative movement, which, however, only applies to the case of printing material 002 configured as printing material sheet 002 and/or to the case of a comparatively large length of the individual printing section length L D , L D compared to the length of printing material I02 ,a ; L D,b ; L D,c ; L D,d , for example a maximum compared to the present pressure section lengths L D ; L D,a ; L D,b ;
  • the printed printing material 002′ is fed to the further processing section 003, in which it is combined with the product P relating to the print job, e.g. B. in the manner set out above to a newspaper, tabloid, book or special product P(Z); O(T); P(B); P(S) is processed. Possibly before each print job, but preferably at least in the event of an order change between them in the product design, e.g. B.
  • this can be done manually on site, by operating personnel via a central operating interface, for example via a control station 1000 included in control and/or planning system 004, or via an operating interface that is assigned a higher priority for further processing, by at least importing and computer-based or at least computer-aided processing of the currently pending or possibly already ongoing production P concerning data dW relevant for further processing, or preferably by a computer-based or at least computer-aided provision, transmission and processing of data dW relevant for further processing relevant to the currently pending or possibly already ongoing production P.
  • the setting parameters can also be stored specifically for the respective productions and/or formats and used by the staff on a The above interface should be or will be selected.
  • the affected drive or actuating means 527; 529; 532; 534; 671 or the control means 526; 528; 531; 533; 536; 678; 682; 683; 683 is supplied with the control data and/or signals SW representing the determined specifications and/or parameters, which are or are formed, for example, in the control device 802 from the specifications provided manually or with the aid of a computer.
  • the control means 526; 528; 531; 533; 536; 678; 682; 683; 683 can be provided centrally in a common structural unit, in each case separately for the strand guiding and/or forming section 500 and for the collecting and/or folding section 600, in any grouped together, or completely decentralized, individually.
  • control means 678; 682; 683; 683 for example as control circuits or algorithms in a control device 686 spatially assigned to the gathering and/or folding section 600, e.g. B. an at least DP-supported control device 686, and several control means 526 relating to the strand guiding and/or forming section 500; 528; 531; 533; 536 as control circuits or algorithms in one or more control devices 687, e.g. B. an at least DP-supported control device 687.
  • the control device 802 is connected to the drive or adjusting means 527; 529; 532; 534; 671 or those assigned to them, e.g. B. control means 526 designed as computing means or as PLCs; 528; 531; 533; 536; 678; 682; 683; 683, connected by signals and/or set up for this purpose via appropriate computing and/or data processing means, taking into account the specifications obtained manually or by selection or via the further processing data d W to generate the said control data and/or signals SW and to the relevant drive - or adjusting means 527; 529; 532; 534; 671 or to the control means 526; 528; 531; 533; 536; 678; 682; 683; 684 to transmit.
  • control means 526 designed as computing means or as PLCs
  • 528; 531; 533; 536; 678; 682; 683; 683 connected by signals and/or set up for this purpose via appropriate computing and/or data processing means, taking into account the
  • design-specific quantities and parameters for example zero positions, adjustment ranges and dimensions, for the existing handling or processing means and/or their drive or adjustment means can also be taken into account and/or be stored, for example, in the control device 802 or from other sources, e.g. B. from a memory of the respective control means, a machine controller 800 or other data sources connected by signaling technology and/or can be retrieved.
  • a higher-level control device 802 is preferably available here as a higher-level control device 802 to be assigned to further processing section 003, at least with an actuating or drive means 528; 531; 533; 529; 534 for setting and/or presetting the combination device 502; 503; 504 executed further processing stage 502; 503; 504 as well as - in particular for the transmission of presetting data and/or dynamic data representing the collection sequence or the printing material feed - with a control means assigned to the collection device, in particular its drive for the holding means, in signal connection for its control.
  • control device 802 can also be used to control the drive means for one or more of the handling and/or processing stages 502; 503; 504; 506; 507; 508; 509; 511; 512; 513; 601; 602; 603; 604; 606; 607; 608; 609; 611; 612 required dynamic data and / or signals, z. B. to the product flow and / or to the printing process synchronous drive data, as control data and / or signals SW is or will be transmitted.
  • At least the drive data and/or signals SL synchronous with the product flow and/or the printing process for drive means, such as those formed by the drives that cause the printing material to feed, are separated from the control data and/or signals SW relating to the setting and control commands transmitted to a data processing or computing means for the formation of an electronic, in particular virtual, guide axis.
  • the control data and/or signals S W and the drive data and/or signals S L can be transmitted via separate signal connections or possibly via the same signal connection, e.g.
  • the above-mentioned image control device 900 and/or the means for obtaining and forwarding the data d W relevant for further processing can in principle be spatially attached to the printing unit 200; 400 or printing unit 211; 411 on the one hand and the further processing section 003 on the other hand and arranged decentrally, or together with other control and/or data processing means assigned to the printing press 001 and/or the receiving section 003, e.g. B. control components and/or modules 800; 900; 1000; 1100; 1200, be centrally located.
  • this image control device 900 and/or the means for obtaining and forwarding the data d W relevant for further processing - as well as the machine control 800 - are referred to conceptually as the control and/or planning system 004 with spatially distributed or structurally in the sense mentioned below combined or only partially combined control modules and/or components800; 900; 1000; 1100; 1200 includes be.
  • a control-related assignment here means that printing press 001, in particular the drive means and/or actuating elements assigned to it, and/or the receiving section 003, in particular the drive means and/or actuating elements assigned to it, by corresponding control modules and/or components 800; 900; 1000; 1100; 1200 of the control and/or planning system 004 comprises control means 801; 802 is controlled and/or can be controlled with regard to functions relevant to operation and/or setting, in particular at least with regard to their basic functions such as starting up, shutting down and possibly a variable that determines the production speed.
  • the higher-level machine control 800 is available with at least one user interface 1000, e.g. B. a control station 1000, in signal connection or includes such.
  • the higher-level machine control 800 - in a common control device or else distributed and connected via signals - can control means 801 relating to the printing machine 001, e.g. g. control routines and/or circuits of a control device 801, and the control means 802, e.g. B. control routines and / or circuits control device 801, be included.
  • At least drive components of printing press 001 and/or postpress section 03 that affect the transport of printing material preferably also individual control means that affect printing material transport and/or the printing process of printing press 001, e.g. B. actuators or valves and the printing material conveying and / or the processing of the further processing section 003 relevant control means, z. B. actuators or valves controlled and / or controllable.
  • Control means e.g. B. drives of printing press 001 and of delivery section 003 that cause the printing substrate to feed, means that synchronize with one another, such as data processing or computing means for forming an electronic, in particular virtual, master axis.
  • the first and/or the second section 001; 003, in particular the printing press 001 and the subsequent further processing section 003, can be controlled in at least their basic functions.
  • the control and/or planning system 04 preferably comprises a product data provision section 1100 as a further component 1100, e.g. B. an in particular digital pre-press stage 1100, from which the transmission or provision of the print data d D relating to the print image to the image control device 900 takes place.
  • the product data provision section 1100 can possibly include a production plan 1200 or be included together with such a combined program module or be connected to a separately provided production plan 1200 by means of signals.
  • the product data provision section 1100 which is preferably embodied as a prepress stage 1100, can include a data interface to the integrated or signal-connected production planning 1200, via which, for example, product-relevant data d P of a digital print job can be imported from the production planning 1200.
  • the digital print job is created and characterized, for example, via an operator interface, which in the case of a combined embodiment can coincide with an operator interface of the product data provision section 1100 .
  • the data d P for the description of the print job relating to the product P are or are transmitted, for example, in the so-called JDF format (Job Definition Format) and can contain information on the product design, e.g. B.
  • the data d P for describing the print job relating to the product P and/or data d V relevant for a presetting of units of the printing press 001 and/or the further processing section 003 can be sent directly or indirectly from the production planning 1100 via a signal connection to the machine controller 800 be handed over or become.
  • RIP raster image processor
  • the preparation of the data relating to the page content based on the imposition scheme and/or rasterized print data d D and, if applicable, the processing of the data relating to the product design to data d W relating to the required printing material guidance and further processing can be carried out by or with the support of an implemented in the product data preparation section 1100,
  • the above means for digital sheet assembly comprehensive data processing program, z. B. an exclusion software are generated or be.
  • the digitized production description provided by the product data provision section 1100 for the printed product P to be produced includes the print data d D preferably in a raster graphics format, such as in bitmap format, or alternatively in a vector-based description format, such as a PostScript or in particular PDF format ("portable document format”), and in an advantageous embodiment in addition to this - preferably in a different data stream or a further file - the printing material management and/or further processing of the printing material 002' printed via the corresponding print data d D pertaining to data d W , short further processing data d W , for example in JDF format (Job Definition Format).
  • JDF format Job Definition Format
  • the print data d D are transmitted to said image control device 900 for further data processing into control data and/or control signals S D specific to the printing system. If present, the data d W relating to the further processing is transmitted to the control means 802 assigned to one or more handling and/or processing steps S n of the second section 003 with regard to their operational control and/or presetting.
  • the higher-level control means 802 of the further-processing section 003, for example independent of a one-part or multi-part structure, referred to collectively as the control device 802 can in principle be included as a module in the product data provision section 1100 or, as shown, as a component of the product data provision section 1100 connected directly or indirectly to the product data provision section Control and/or planning system 004, but in particular as a component of machine control 800.
  • it can be assigned to further processing section 003 as a control device that is connected in terms of signaling technology but is arranged separately, or in a further alternative.
  • Control device 802 generates control and/or actuating signals SW for drive or actuating means of one or more handling and/or processing devices of at least one handling or processing stage of further processing section 003 on the basis of the data d W relating to further processing and via a corresponding signal connection forwarded to the drive or actuating means concerned or locally to the controls assigned to these drive or actuating means.
  • the further processing data d W can include information on printed page formats and/or positions of the printed pages on printing substrate 002' and/or information relating to further processing, such as the position of required cutting lines and/or folding lines and/or stitching lines in relation to printing substrate 002'.
  • the further processing data d W could already include the necessary setting and/or operating data for the relevant drive or adjusting means of the handling or processing means, provided that the machine data required for this for the design and the position of the printing material are known or accessible.
  • setting and/or operating data is preferably obtained in control means 802 from the product-related and/or printing material-related further processing data d W using data relating to the specific design of the handling or processing means and processed to form the control data and/or signals S W .
  • any sheet-fed or web-fed printing press 001 can in principle be arranged upstream of the further processing section 003 in any of the above-mentioned embodiments, developments, configurations and variants, this is preferably a printing press 001 that operates according to a process without a printing forme, preferably as an inkjet printing press, in particular as a Trained inkjet web press.
  • a printing machine 001 for printing on an industrial scale which includes e.g. in a maximum printable width of e.g. B. up to over 600 mm at a present during printing feed rate of z. B. shows over 50 m / min.
  • the printing press 001 which is preferably used according to the inkjet method, can in principle be equipped with a printing unit 200; 400 free-floating, ie unsupported printing material 002 on the back, e.g. B. a web stretched over a free length encompassing the pressure point 002, operated and/or executed.
  • printing press 001 with printing substrate 002 on its conveying path from entry into a first to exit from a last one of several printing units 200; 400 attributable printing points D1.1; D1.2; D1.3; D1.4; D2.1; D2.2; D2.3; D2.4 at at least one interpolation point 201; 401; 201.3; 401.3 by a printing material guide 201; 401 is or is supported on the back.
  • This one printing unit 200; 400 and/or side of printing material from the first to the last printing point D1.1; D1.2; D1.3; D1.4; D2.1; D2.2; D2.3; D2.4 attributable conveying line can also be regarded as the printing line assigned to a printing substrate side and/or printing unit.
  • pressure points D1.1; D1.2; D1.3; D1.4; D2.1; D2.2; D2.3; Sections D2.4 that follow one another in the conveying direction can be designated here, on which the printing substrate 002 guided past it is impinged with a printing ink of the same color.
  • a printing unit 200; 400 only one printing point D1.1; D2.1, for example for the color black.
  • the pressure points D1.1; D1.2; D1.3; D1.4; D2.1 ; D2.2; D2.3; D2.4 can be spatially connected directly to each other or, e.g. B. by colors, be spaced apart. Under the term of a pressure point D1.1; D1.2; D1.3; D1.4; D2.1; D2.2; D2.3; D2.4 should also include a section that - e.g.
  • the printing unit 200; 400 associated printing material guide 201; 401 comprises the guiding and/or conveying means of one of the printing unit 200; 400 associated conveyor section, which extends at least over the above-mentioned conveyor section or pressure section.
  • This can e.g. Am 37 shown schematically and z.
  • Am Figure 39 provided in the printing press 001 is a central cylinder 201; 401 or as shown schematically in e.g. B.
  • a freely co-rotating or advantageously positively driven cylinder, roller or belt conveyor device can be seen, or possibly a fixed one-part or multi-part printing material guide 201, but preferably one with a friction-reducing surface; be 401 In a z.
  • Am 37 and Figure 39 The example shown and to be preferred is that of the printing material side and/or printing unit 200; 400 associated printing material guide 201; 401 by a rotating cylinder 201; 401 executed.
  • the guiding and/or conveying means 201; 401 is in this case by the cylinder 201; 401 self formed. In the case of an indirect inkjet printing process, this is possible with z. B.
  • the printing machine 001 is designed for direct inkjet printing, ie without a transfer device.
  • the example shown schematically can be that of the printing material side and/or printing unit 200; 400 associated printing material guide 201; 401 by means of a number of guiding and/or conveying means in the conveying direction, e.g. B. rollers or rollers, comprising conveyor 201; 401, e.g. B. roller or roller conveyor, be formed.
  • a conveyor 201; 401 on such guidance and/or conveying means 201.1; 201.2; 201.3; 201.4; 201.5 (401.1; 401.2; 401.3; 401.4; 401.5) tape guide can be provided.
  • At least one conditioning device may be provided, by means of which the still unprinted or already printed printing substrate 002 can be subjected to a substance or mixture of substances other than the printing ink and/or cold and/or energy for conditioning purposes.
  • at least one conditioning device can be provided in and/or after the at least one printing unit 200, through which the still unprinted or already printed printing substrate 002 can be accelerated with energy and/or a gaseous fluid flow and/or can be acted upon by a substance or mixture of substances that is different from the printing ink.
  • the transport path of printing substrate 002, and in particular printing substrate web 002 preferably runs through the at least one first dryer 301 in order to dry any coating medium that has been applied.
  • the at least one first dryer 301 is preferably part of a dryer unit 300.
  • printing substrate 002 and in particular printing substrate web 002 is preferably dem Supplied to further processing section 003 and further processed there.
  • At least the first dryer 301 and/or after the at least one first dryer 301 is preferably at least the second printing unit 400 and/or after the at least one first dryer 301 along the transport path of printing substrate 002 and in particular printing substrate web 002 through printing machine 001 the at least one second printing unit 400, the at least one second dryer 331 is preferably arranged, and/or the at least one post-processing device 500 is preferably arranged downstream of the at least one second dryer 331.
  • a drying aid 301 e.g. B. a dryer 301 provided.
  • two printing units 200; 400 provided which z. B. successively through the printing material 002, i. H. are or can be run through individual printing substrate sections 002 or through web-type printing substrate 002 in order to print on both sides, for example.
  • the two each have at least one non-impact printing unit 211; 411 comprehensive printing units 200; 400 and/or at least two non-impact printing units 211; 411 can also be embodied in an alternative embodiment on both sides of a printing material path in a common frame as a printing unit 200, 400 that prints printing material 002 on both sides.
  • drying aid 301 is assigned to the two printing units 200; 400 in the printing material path behind the second of the printing units 200; 400 can be arranged downstream, in the case of two printing units 200; 400 preferably both in the printing material path between the first and the second printing assembly 200; 400 and also in the printing unit 200; 400, a drying aid 301; 331 planned.
  • the same drying aid 301 can be used by appropriate printing material guidance both in one from the first to the second printing unit 200; 400 leading out as well as in the second printing unit 200; 400 leading away printing material path or one drying aid 301; 331, e.g. B. a first drying aid 301, in particular a first dryer 301; 331, in from the first to the second printing unit 200; 400 leading and z. B. a second drying aid 301; 331, in particular a second dryer 301; 331 in from the second printing unit 200; 400 downstream printing material path, be provided.

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