Device for controlling the printing of one or more webs of material in a rotary printing press

• US 6,167,806 B1
• Filed: 03/11/1999
• Issued: 01/02/2001
• Est. Priority Date: 03/11/1998
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Goss International Montataire, S.A. (Manroland GOSS Web Systems International LLC)
• Original Assignee: Heidelberger Druckmaschinen Ag
• Inventors: Pollet, Henri, Chretinat, Michel
• Primary Examiner(s): EICKHOLT, EUGENE H
• Application Number:
  US09/266,437
• Time in Patent Office: 663 Days
• Field of Search: 101/219, 101/220, 101/221, 101/248, 101/483, 101/484, 101/485, 101/486, 101/DIG.36, 101/DIG.46
• US Class Current: 101/220
• CPC Class Codes: B41F 33/0009 Central control units
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 101/46 Printing operation controlled by code indicia on printing plate or substate

Abstract

A control device for controlling the printing of at least one web of material in a rotary printing press from a control panel, including an interface system between an operator and individual components of the printing press, further includes an automatic page selector, a memory for storing therein information pertaining to the printing press, products to be printed, control parameters of the individual printing press components, and display parameters of printing process variables, an interrogator for interrogating the memory, and a monitoring/control system for passing on all data to the printing press in order to use a selected component and to modify a variable appertaining thereto.

Claims

1. A control device for controlling the printing of at least one web of material in a rotary printing press from a control panel, including an interface system between an operator and individual components of the printing press, comprising an automatic page selector for reading out and determining specifications assigned to the printed copy to be checked, said specifications including a page and web number, respectively, a section of a respective newspaper, one of an edition and a version, respectively, and a page of the respective web, said specifications being formed as a code insertable into an image printed on the copy, a memory for storing therein information pertaining to the printing press, products to be printed, control parameters of the individual printing press components, and display parameters of printing process variables, an interrogator for interrogating the memory, and a monitoring/control system for passing on all data to the printing press in order to use a selected component and to modify a variable appertaining thereto.

2. A control device for controlling the printing of at least one web of material in a rotary printing press from a control panel including an analysis table for receiving thereon at least one printed copy to be checked, the control device having an interface system between an operator and individual components of the printing press, with a selector for selecting all functions of the printing press, comprising an automatic page selector for reading out and determining specifications assigned to the printed copy to be checked, said specifications including a page and web number, respectively, a section of a respective newspaper, one of an edition and a version, respectively, and a page of the respective web, said specifications being formed as a code insertable into an image printed on the copy;

a memory device for storing data with respect to the printing press, formation of the products to be printed, curling tendency version, control parameters of various printing press components, and parameters for displaying printing process variables;

an interrogator for selecting, on the one hand, from the specifications detected by the automatic page selector and, on the other hand, from specifications input by an operator via the control panel and transmitted by the interface system, wherein the selections by the operator include a selection of the work to be performed by the printing press, a selection of a printing press function to be displayed and changed, respectively, and a color selection, from the data stored in said memory device, the data pertaining to a component of the printing press, a control of said component, and a display of the associated variables, and for forwarding these data to the interface system that is suitable for displaying the variable selected by said interrogator, at the printing press control panel, and has a device by which the operator can act upon the displayed and selected variables from the control panel of the press; and

a control and monitoring system suitable for taking into account the data selected by the interrogator via the interface system and the action of the operator at the control panel on the variable selected by said interrogator and for transmitting these data to the rotary printing press in order to use the selected component of the printing press and thus to vary the aforementioned selected variables in the printing process.

3. The control device according to claim 2, including a plurality of keys arranged in a row, under the analysis table of the control panel, said keys serving to open and close ink duct screws of various printing units of the printing press, in order to adjust zonally a quantity of ink applied to each printed copy to be checked, the analysis table having a marking, and said automatic page selector serving to determine the position of a corner of a copy placed upon the analysis table, relative to said marking and for transmitting the position to the interrogator for, in turn, transmitting the position on to the interface system, so that said adjusting keys are assigned relative to the marking on the analysis table as a function of the position of the copy.

4. The control device according to claim 2, wherein said automatic page selector includes an optical reader.

5. The control device according to claim 4, wherein said optical reader is selected from the group consisting of a camera and a sensor.

6. The control device according to claim 2, wherein the code incorporated into the image printed on the copy is formed as a bar code.

7. The control device according to claim 2, wherein the code incorporated into the image printed on the copy is formed as a dot code.

8. A rotary printing press for two-sided printing of at least one web with various elements, including printing units, a lateral and circumferential register control device, a paper passage equipped with a set of turner bars, a folder device, and a control panel, comprising a control device for controlling the printing of at least one web of material in a rotary printing press from a control panel, including an interface system between an operator and individual components of the printing press, comprising an automatic page selector for reading out and determining specifications assigned to the printed copy to be checked, said specifications including a page and web number, respectively, a section of a respective newspaper, one of an edition and a version, respectively, and a page of the respective web, said specifications being formed as a code insertable into an image printed on the copy, a memory for storing therein information pertaining to the printing press, products to be printed, control parameters of the individual printing press components, and display parameters of printing process variables, an interrogator for interrogating the memory, and a monitoring/control system for passing on all data to the printing press in order to use a selected component and to modify a variable appertaining thereto.