Title of Invention

METHOD FOR ADJUSTING THE TRANSMISSION OF PRINTING INK

Abstract The invention relates to a method for adjusting the transfer of printing ink, wherein a first roller (54), which is arranged in an inker unit (42) of a printing machine, transfers printing ink to a form cylinder (43). A temperature control unit (57) enables the outer surface of the first roller (54) to reach the required temperature and/or a temperature control unit (58) enables the outer surface of the form cylinder (43) to reach the required temperature. Said temperature control unit (57) of the first roller (54) and/or the temperature control unit (58) of the form cylinder (43) can be, respectively, controlled or regulated by an adjusting device (37). specific curves or reference points for an interrelation between the production speed (V) of a printing machine and the respective required temperature on the outer surface of the form cylinder (43) or on the outer surface of the first roller (54) are stored in a storage unit (34) of the adjusting device (37) for various printing inks and/or ink types.
Full Text Description
Method for Adjusting the Transmission of Printing Ink
The invention pertains to a method for adjusting the transmission of printing ink
according to the introductory part of claim 1.
The document DE 694 02 737 T2 presents a temperature regulated system for printing
machines, whereby a compression machine selectively offers tempering agents for
tempering of inking rollers of several printing mechanisms for cooling as well as heating
purposes. This takes place by means of selective feeding a heat exchanger with
compressed tempering agent subsequently cooled in a condenser and finally de-stressed,
and hence hot tempering agent. Either cooling or heating of a secondary tempering agent
circulation now takes place in the heat exchanger. Temperature regulation takes place by
means of dosage with this tempering agent on the basis of a temperature sensor and a
regulating valve for each individual roller.
The document DE 296 08 045 Ul shows a system for tempering, whereby for cooling the
damping agent a first cooling unit with a first cooling process and a first fluid circulation
is foreseen, which on the one hand is thermally coupled with the damping agent supply
circulation of the damping agent through a heat exchanger, and on the other hand,
thermally coupled with a second fluid circulation through a second heat exchanger, which
on its part is thermally coupled with a cooling process designed as cooling tower.
The document DE 44 26 083 Al presents a tempering device, where a tempering fluid
can be guided for tempering a roller in its circulation, either through a heat exchanger in
thermal contact with a cooling fluid circulation or even a heating heat exchanger.
From the documents WO 03/045694 Al and WO 03/045695 Al we know about methods
in which through tempering of a rotating component of a printing mechanism working
together with the printing ink, an easy flow of the ink on the rotating component can be

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kept largely constant in a temperature range of 22°C to 50°C, whereby the easy flow of
ink depends on the temperature on the jacket surface of the rotating component and its
production speed. This application is particularly found in waterless printing
mechanisms, preferably in the printing mechanism for newspaper printing.
The document EP 0 652 104 A1 reveals a printing mechanism for waterless offset
printing with a regulating unit with several regulators, which for avoiding build-up of ink
on a transmission cylinder of a printing mechanism regulate, depending on the fluctuation
of a form cylinder of a printing mechanism allocated to the transmission cylinder or with
a thermo-sensor on the transmission cylinder or an ink rolling cylinder of a inking
mechanism allocated to the form cylinder, the determined temperature from a rated value
with the help of a regulating valve for regulating a cooling agent fed to the respective
cylinder, e.g. water. While printing, with the help of the regulated cooling agent quantity
it should be possible to maintain a constant temperature of the print form arranged on the
form cylinder, e.g. in a temperature range of 28°C to 30°C. The temperature of the
transmission cylinder should be maintained at approx. 34°C to 35°C and the temperature
of the inking mechanism between 25°C and 27°C. By feeding the cooling agent quantity
there is also the possibility of pre-heating of the printing mechanism, so that cracking of
the printing ink at the beginning of printing can be avoided on account of accumulation
of paper particles in the printing mechanism, whereby a temperature flow of the cooling
agent for pre-heating can be regulated according to a temperature-time-graph fed to the
storage unit accommodated in the regulating unit.
From the document DE 197 36 339 A1/B4 we know of a tempering device in a printing
mechanism, whereby through tempering the rheological properties of the printing ink can
be influenced, e.g. its viscosity or easy flow. The allied printing machine with a form
cylinder has a short inking mechanism with an ink well, a screen roller and an inking
roller. At least one of the inking mechanism rollers or the form cylinders can be
tempered by the tempering unit. The tempering takes place by cooling or heating either
from the jacket surface of the inking mechanism rollers or the form cylinder or in the
interior of the inking mechanism rollers or the form cylinder. Additionally, also the ink

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well can be tempered and particularly also the wipers for wiping excess ink from the
screen rollers. The quantity of ink transmitted to the form cylinder can be regulated by
means of a regulating cycle, whereby the optical density measured on the printing
substance serves as signal parameter, on the basis of which the regulators allocated to the
tempering unit regulate their temperature.
The document DE-OS 19 53 590 presents a printing mechanism with an inking
mechanism and a damping device that can be tempered with the help of a tempering unit.
A rated value for the temperature can be determined in relationship to influence
parameters, e.g. the printing speed, before starting of the printing process with the help of
trial print, or can be set with the help of a table. An advantageous upper limit of the
temperature of the printing ink is given with room temperature.
From the document DE 39 04 854 Cl it is known that the rotation speed of the cylinder
of the printing mechanism, the inking mechanism and the damping device have an
influence on the inking mechanism temperature.
In the document DE 44 31 188 Al a print form of a printing mechanism for waterless
offset printing is cooled with the help of a cooling device to approx. 28 to 30°C.
From the document DE 102 45 702 Al we know of a method for controlling the ink
guiding in a machine processing print substances with at least one printing ink, where at
least the physical properties of printing ink and/or print substances are known as data to a
computer, whereby the stored data is read in a ink control model stored in the computer
and on the basis of this ink control model the optimum settings with respect to ink
guiding before commencement of printing or during the printing sequence can be taken
up.
It is the task of this invention to create a method for adjusting the transmission of printing
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This task is fulfilled according to the invention by means of the features given in claim 1.
The advantages achieved through the invention are, on the one hand, that an adjustment
and/or adaptation of the respective rated temperature on the jacket surface of the form
cylinder or on the jacket surface of the first roller for different printing inks or ink types
is possible for the operating personnel of a printing machine in a comfortable manner in a
display and/or input mask on a monitor of an input and output unit of an adjusting device,
because corresponding ink specific graphs or support points defining a correlation
between a production speed of the printing machine and the respective rated temperature
on the jacket surface of the form cylinder or the jacket surface of the first roller are stored
in a storage unit of the adjusting device and can be displayed in the display mask and/or
input mask, can be selected and altered.
Besides it is advantageous that a conveying rate of a roller sourcing printing ink from a
reservoir and transmitting it to an adjacent rotation body, for example a screen roller, is
kept almost constant, so that on increasing the production speed of the printing machine
in spite of a decrease in the capacity of the screen roller for transmitting printing ink as a
result of an increasing incomplete emptying of its cups an almost uniform ink quantity is
conveyed to the printing substance; and on the other hand, by adjusting the temperature
on the jacket surface of particularly the formed cylinder in relation to the production
speed of the printing machine, easy flow of the ink transported from the form cylinder
can be maintained in a suitable range value-wise for the printing process, so that
especially cracking of the ink on the surface of the printing substance can be avoided.
The ink is adapted to the actual printing process in relationship to the production speed of
the printing machine with respect to its fission capacity and adhesion capacity by
appropriate adjustment of its temperature, whereby adjustment of its temperature
indirectly takes place by adjusting the temperature on the jacket surface of a rotation
body guiding this printing ink. In order to avoid wastage as a result of unsuitable
temperature-dependent properties of the printed ink, in case of an intended alteration in
production speed of the printing machine, the different time parameters for conducting
the adaptation of temperature of the ink and for conducting the adaptation of the

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production speed of the printing machine should be taken into account. There is also the
possibility of manually altering a machine setting within certain limits and thus carrying
out fine-tuning and of producing a good quality for the print product. All these measures
contribute towards maintaining a high quality level of a print product produced with the
printing machine in spite of alteration of the production speed of the printing machine.
Design examples of the invention are shown in the drawing and are described in more
details below.
The following are shown:
Fig. 1 A highly simplified depiction of four printing mechanisms of an offset rotor
printing machine arranged in series;
Fig.2 A schematic depiction of a printing mechanism for waterless offset printing;
Fig. 3 A functional relationship between the production speed of the printing machine
and a temperature to be adjusted on the rotation body guiding a printing ink on the
jacket surface;
Fig.4 A functional relationship between the production speed of a printing machine and
an ink quantity to be conveyed by a screen roller;
Fig. 5 A schematic depiction of different circulations of tempering agents in the printing
machine;
Fig. 6 An extract of a display mask and/or input mask for tempering the screen roller and
form cylinder;
Fig. 7 An extract of a display mask and/or input mask for selecting a certain printing ink;
Fig. 8 A schematic depiction of the central readying and decentralised supply with
tempering agent;
Fig. 9 A detailed depiction of the supply unit;
Fig. 10 A design for tempering a printing tower;
Fig.l 1 A version for the design of a cold central unit;
Fig. 12 A first design example for heat recovery;
Fig. 13 A second design example for heat recovery;

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Fig. 1 shows in a highly simplified depiction four printing mechanisms 01; 02; 03; 04 of
an offset rotor printing machine arranged in series, respectively with a form cylinder 06;
07; 08; 09, a transmission cylinder 11; 12; 13; 14 and a counter pressure 16; 17; 18; 19,
whereby for producing print product printed on both sides each counter pressure cylinder
16; 17; 18; 19 is preferably similarly designed as a transmission cylinder 16; 17; 18; 19,
which again works together with a form cylinder allocated to it (not shown). A print
carrier 21, e.g. a printed sheet 21 or a material web 21, preferably a paper web 21, is
guided through during a production of the printing machine respectively between the
transmission cylinder 11; 12; 13; 14 and the counter pressure cylinder 16; 17; 18; 19 and
printed at least one printed image on it. It is insignificant for the invention whether the
printing mechanisms 01; 02; 03; 04 are arranged in such a way that the print carrier 21 is
guided horizontally or vertically through the printing machine.
On the printing machine, preferably at the exit of the last printing mechanism 04 of the
printing machine in transportation direction of the print carrier 21 an image sensor 22,
e.g. a colour camera 22, preferably a digital semiconductor camera 22 with at least one
CCD-chip, can be arranged with its image scanning region directly pointed on to the print
carrier 21, whereby the image scanning region of the image sensor 22 captures the entire
width of the print carrier 21, whereby the width of the print carrier 21 stretches transverse
to its transportation direction through the printing machine. The image sensor 22 thus
records an electronically usable image of the entire width of the printed paper web 21,
whereby along the width of the paper web 21 at least one printed image is imposed on the
print carrier 21. The image sensor 22 is designed for example as a flat camera 22.
The image sensor 22 transmits the data correlated to the scanned image to a suitable
evaluation unit 23, especially a programme-controlled electronic computing unit 23 that
is arranged in a conducting stand belonging to the printing machine. Parameters relevant
for the printing process can be controlled by analysing and evaluating the scanned image
in the evaluation unit 23 and, if required, automatically corrected in a programme-
controlled manner by programmes running in the evaluation unit 23. The evaluation and
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with the help of the same evaluation unit 23. Particularly the image scanned by the
image sensor 22 during a running production of a printing machine and passed on to the
evaluation unit 23 in the form of data is evaluated to see whether the printed image
scanned by the image and evaluated shows any change in tonality, especially an increase
in tonality, with respect to the previously scanned and evaluated printed image, i.e. an
actually scanned image is checked in the running printing process in comparison to a
reference image. If the result of the text shows an alteration of tonality, i.e. generally a
print-technically unavoidable increase in tonality, then the dosage and/or the feeding of
ink in the printing machine is altered by a first setting command coming from the
evaluation unit 23 and guided through a data line 24 to at least one of the printing
mechanisms 01; 02; 03; 04, so that the tonality variation for a subsequent application of
ink is minimum. After regulation of the ink density carried out by altering the dosage
and/or the feed of printing ink, an image following the actually checked image conforms
to a previously checked image of a printed image, i.e. to a reference image. Control and
regulation of the tonality variation is important in order to maintain colour balance or
grey balance in the printing process and to keep the colour impression of the produced
print product as constant as possible - if required within permissible tolerance limits -,
which constitute an important quality feature for print products.
Similarly the data generated from the scanning of the printed image and transmitted to the
evaluation unit 23 is taken for checking a registration consistency of the printed image
impression on the print carrier 21, especially for checking and if required correcting a
colour registration of a printed image printed in multiple colours. At least one motor-
adjustable register is foreseen in the printing machine, e.g. a circumference register or a
page register, if required even a diagonal adjustment for at least one of the form cylinders
06; 07; 08; 09 with respect to the transmission cylinder 11; 12; 13; 14 allocated to it,
whereby the register is regulated by at least one second setting command coming from
the evaluation unit 23 and forwarded through a data line 26 to at least one of the printing
mechanism 01; 02; 03; 04, so that a printed image following the evaluated image gives
the highest possible registration precision. An adjustment or shifting of the register is
thus calculated by the evaluation unit 23 from the image data provided by the image

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sensor 22 to the evaluation unit 23. By adjusting or shifting the page register even cross-
expansion caused by fan-out can be countered, whereby this cross-expansion occurs
especially in printing machine that have a so-called eight-tower structure for its printing
mechanism.
The printing machine is designed shaft-less. In such a printing machine the form
cylinders 06; 07; 08; 09 have individual drives that are mechanically de-coupled from the
drive of the counter pressure cylinders 16; 17; 18; 19, so that the phase position or the
angle position of the form cylinders 06; 07; 08; 09 can be altered with respect to the
counter pressure cylinders 16; 17; 18; 19 by a corresponding control or regulation of the
drive of the form cylinders 06; 07; 08; 09, whenever an evaluation of the image scanned
from the print carrier 21 by the image sensor 22 considers this to be necessary. The
entire image content and not only individually locally limited image elements of the print
carrier 21, e.g. reference mark or similar things, thus influences the control or regulation
of the printing mechanism, especially the drive of a form cylinder 06; 07; 08; 09.
A setting command generated by the evaluation unit 23 from the image content of the
image scanned from the printed image acts on a control unit or regulating unit of a
provision-regulated electrical motor for rotary drive during printing of at least one of the
form cylinders 06; 07; 08; 09, the transmission cylinders 11; 12; 13; 14 allocated to it or
counter pressure cylinders 16; 17; 18; 19. Thus at least one of the printing mechanisms
01; 02; 03; 04 of the printing machine the drive of the form cylinders 06; 07; 08; 09 or
the transmission cylinders 11; 12; 13; 14 allocated to these form cylinders 06; 07; 08; 09
can be controlled or regulated by an electrical signal independent of the drive of the form
cylinder 06; 07; 08; 09 or the transmission cylinder 11; 12; 13; 14 allocated to this form
cylinder 06; 07; 08; 09 in anther printing mechanism 01; 02; 03; 04 of the printing
machine; especially the mutual angle position or phase position of the form cylinders 06;
07; 08; 09 or their allocated transmission cylinders 11; 12; 13; 14 arranged in different
printing mechanisms 01; 02; 03; 04 of the printing machine and involved in the printing
of the print product, i.e. the printed image, can be adjusted to a registration suitable for
production of a print product by the allied control unit or regulating unit, e.g. evaluation

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unit 23. The electrical motor of a form cylinder 06; 07; 08; 09 is arranged co-axial to the
axis of the form cylinder 06; 07; 08; 09, whereby the rotor of the motor is stiffly
connected to its stud of the axis of the form cylinder 06; 07; 08; 09 in a manner as
described for example in the document DE 43 22 744 Al. The counter pressure cylinder
16; 17; 18; 19 arranged in a different printing mechanism 01; 02; 03; 04 of the printing
machine can, as described in EP 0 812 683 A1, mechanically be connected to one another
by a train of gears and for example have a common drive, whereby however the form
cylinder 06; 07; 08; 09 or the allocated transmitted cylinder 11; 12; 13; 14 remain de-
coupled with respect to their drive from the counter pressure cylinders 16; 17; 18; 19
allocated to them. Between the form cylinder 06; 07; 08; 09 and the transmission
cylinder 11; 12; 13; 14 allocated to it there can be a coupling by means of meshed gears,
so that the form cylinder 06; 07; 08; 09 and the transmission cylinder 11; 12; 13; 14
allocated to it can be driven by the same drive. The control unit or the regulation unit of
the drive of at least the form cylinders 06; 07; 08; 09 is for example integrated in the
evaluation unit 23.
Control or regulation of the phase position or the angle position of the form cylinder 06;
07; 08; 09 with respect to the counter pressure cylinders 16; 17; 18; 19 takes place with
reference to a fixed reference setting, so that the form cylinder 06; 07; 08; 09 can have a
leading or lagging rotation with respect to the counter pressure cylinder 16; 17; 18; 19
allocated to it, whereby the relation of the rotation of the form cylinder 06; 07; 08; 09 and
the counter pressure cylinder 16; 17; 18; 19 allocated to it is adjusted in relation to the
image content of the image scanned by the image sensor 22 and also followed up by the
control unit or the regulating unit of their drives. Also the phase position or the angle
position of successive form cylinders 06; 07; 08; 09 in the printing process can be
controlled or regulated in the same manner with reference to a fixed reference setting,
which is particularly important in multi-coloured printing of a print product printed
colour-wise in successively arranged printing mechanisms 01; 02; 03; 04 of the printing
machine. If from the image scanned from the printed image having several colours it is
seen that a correction is required for an ink printed in one of the printing mechanisms 01;

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02; 03; 04, then the evaluating unit 23 passes on the setting command to counter the
determined disturbing influence on to the concerned printing mechanism 01; 02; 03; 04.
If the adjusting drives to be regulated by the evaluation unit 23 by adjusting commands,
e.g. the adjusting drive for regulating the feeding of printing ink as well as the drive for
regulating the circumference register or the page register are connected in the printing
machine to a data network connected to the evaluation unit 23, then the data line 24; 26
foreseen for transmitting the first and the second adjusting command is realised by the
data network.
Checking for tonality variation setting in the printing process and checking for
registration consistency are carried out in the evaluation unit 23 simultaneously in data
processing running in parallel branches simultaneously. Both the branches checks/tests
are continuously conducted in the running process and that too at the end of the printing
process and for each individual produced print sample.
Checking for registration consistency initially referred to conformity in the position of a
printed image or setting level between perfect printing and back printing or even between
top side and bottom side in the production of both-sided print products. The check
however also includes for example checking of the compass, i.e. checking the foreseen
precision, individual path-colours in case of overprinting for multi-coloured printing.
Registration precision and compass precision play a very important role in multi-coloured
printing.
A lighting device 27, e.g. a flash bulb 27, is allocated to the image sensor 22, whereby the
short flash from the flash bulb 27 makes the fast running movement sequences in the
printing process appear to be stand-still through a stroboscopic process and thus make
them observable for the human eye. Especially in a sheet printing machine, scanning of
the printed image executed by the image sensor 22 can also takes place in an extension 28
of the printing machine, that is shown in fig. 1 by a dashed depiction of the image sensor
22 and the allied lighting device 27 as a possible option for scanning the printed image

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behind the last printing mechanism 04 of the concerned print page or is shown at the end
of the printing machine. By capable choice of the image sensor 22 and if required the
allied lighting device 23, scanning of the image can be extended or shifted to a visually
not visible spectral range, e.g. the infrared or ultraviolet range. As an alternative to the
preferred flat camera 22 with a flash bulb 27, it is also possible to use a cell camera with
a permanent lighting.
As each print sample is subjected to a test, in the running printing process a trend for
tonality alteration or registration consistency of successively produced print samples can
be identified. The print samples can be classified according to the value determined in
the running printing process with respect to its tonality and/or its registration into groups
of different quality stages and then marked as rejected sample if they cross a permissible
tolerance limit. Rejected samples can be ejected in a controlled manner by the evaluation
unit 23 and in the case of a sheet printing machine can be deposited in the extension 28 at
least on a separate stack 29. For this purpose, from the evaluation unit 23 evaluating the
image there is at least a third adjustment command guided through a data line 31, e.g. a
wastage signal to at least one adjusting drive acting on at least one unit for transportation
of the print carrier 21 for sorting the sample flow.
For synchronizing the frequency with which detection of the images of the print carrier
21 takes place, with the transportation speed of the print carrier 21, i.e. the speed for
example of the paper web 21, at least one of the print mechanisms 01; 02; 03; 04,
preferably in the printing mechanism 01; 02; 03; 04 in which detection of the images by
the image sensor 22 takes place, a rotation generator 32 is installed, whereby the running
rotation generator 32 is at a fixed ratio to a rotation speed of the transmission cylinder 11;
12; 13; 14 on which the image sensor 22 scans the images. The rotation generator 32
gives its output signal to the evaluation unit 23 and/or also to the image sensor 22. The
output signal of the rotation generator 32 is, among other things, used as releaser for the
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The image scanned by the image sensor 22 and forwarded to the evaluation unit 23 in the
form of a data set is displayed on a monitor of an input and output unit 33 connected to
the evaluation unit 23 and having bi-directional data exchange. The input and output unit
33 similarly offers correction possibility for at least one of the mentioned regulations, in
that it allows manual input and/or release of at least one adjusting command.
The evaluation unit 23 has a memory 34 for storing scanned image sequences as well as
storing data that are useful for protocol and thus for documenting the quality of the print
product as well as for statistical analysis of the printing process. It would be
advantageous if the evaluation unit 23 can make the data evaluated and/or stored image to
a company network through a corresponding connection 36.
For comparison of data carried out by the evaluation unit 23, which correlate the actually
scanned image during a running production of a printing machine, with data of a
previously generated image, it can be foreseen that the data of the previously generated
image correlate with the image generated in a previous printing sequence of the printing
machine, whereby a data processing unit of the printing pre-stage (not shown) is
connected to the evaluation unit 23 and the data of the previously generated image is
forwarded to the evaluation unit 23. In this way, data of the previously generated image
are correlated alternatively or additionally to a data of the image scanned by the image
sensor 22 and placed at the disposal of the evaluation unit 23 for evaluation. The data
correlated to the printed image from the previous printing stage form low profile
reference data for controlling and regulating the colour resistance with respect to data
obtained from previously printed images in the running production.
In the printing machine shown, a registration regulation and colour regulation is possible
on the basis of analysis of the same image scanned in the printed image by the image
sensor 23, in that the image of the printed image is evaluated with respect to various
parameters relevant for the printing process in a single evaluation unit 23, as well as
simultaneous inspection of the printed image for processing the quality of the print
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The registration regulation is based on a registration measurement in the printed image.
After all the colours required in the printed image have printed, the entire printed image
is scanned by the camera at the end of the printing machine. In the evaluation unit 23 the
scanned printed image is split up into the usual colour separations CMYK as used in
printing technology, as well as an analysis of a suitable printed image segment and a
relative position determination of a colour separation with respect to a colour separation
by means of correlation method, with a previously scanned or obtained reference image.
The reference image or reference value for image segment or a printed image mark
(desired density) is drawn either from the previous printing step, which has the advantage
that the reference image is available already in the individual colour segment, or a
reference image, e.g. a reference sheet having the printed image, is taken for evaluation
from an impression of the printed image, whereby this reference image has to
additionally be split into the colour separations. This reference sheet is identified after
the printed image is manually set in such a way, that all printed colours are positioned
correctly with respect to one another and hence a proper colour registration is set. This
thus obtained reference printed image is to be stored for later repetition jobs, so that for a
repetition job one can fall back on this earlier scanned reference image. By accessing the
stored reference printed image, the colour registration can be automatically adjusted by
the evaluation unit 23 without manual intervention, which in case of a repetition job leads
to further reduction in wastage.
From the reference printed image, characteristics and suitable segments are selected, on
the basis of which the positions of individual colour segments are determined as
reference colour segments. This is the so-called desired position for later registration
comparison. This reference image inclusive of colour segments and the desired position
is stored for example in the storage 34. Selection of the suitable printed image segment
can be done manually by the operator or automatically by the evaluation unit 23, e.g. for
a pre-setting of the desired position. Suitable printed image segments with respect to
registration measurements are regions, in which the printed ink to be measured dominates
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In the continuous printing process, each printed image is scanned with the help of the
camera system and split into the colour segments CMYK. Within the already fixed
suitable printed image segment, the position of individual colour segment is now
determined. This takes place by comparison with the colour segment from the reference
printing image by means of a correlation method, particularly a cross-correlation method.
With the help of the correlation method, the position of the colour segment can be
determined up to approx. 0.1 pixel of the camera resolution. If for each printed sheet a
stationary registration stage is determined repeatedly, then a higher precision of the
measured value is ensured by suppressing stochastic dispersion.
Determination of the position of the individual colour segments takes place in web run
direction corresponding to the longitudinal registration and in cross direction to the web
run direction corresponding to the page registration. The thus obtained position
differences are converted by the evaluation unit 23 to setting command and sent as
correction signal to the adjusting system, i.e. to the drives.
In offset printing, special colours are not mixed with the standard colours, i.e. the scale
colours CMYK, but are printed separately. Special colours are therefore not measured
separately. Such the region in which the special colours are printed should be fixed. For
each of the special colours, own suitable regions are fixed in which the position of the
colour segment is determined in the same way as for the scale colours CMYK, i.e. the
standard colours. The further procedure for registration regulation for special colour is
identical to the procedure described already for standard colours.
An advantageous design is described below, in which on the basis of the scanned data for
colour density and/or spectral analysis, the regulation of the ink feeding is taken up by
means of a temperature as guiding parameter that can be set on the jacket surface of the
rotation body involved in the printing process. Determination of the data can thereby
takes place through the entire web width or printing width, merely through one or more
printed image segments or through special marks on the printing substance. The ink
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can be determined densito-metrically, and that too inline, i.e. in the running printing
process, as well as offline, i.e. by means of a measurement on rejected print samples from
the running printing process.
As shown in fig. 2, an adjusting device 37 is foreseen, which is fed with a signal with
data from the evaluation unit 23. For example, depending on the determined variation of
an actually scanned ink density Dl from a pre-given desired value of the ink density D2
by the adjusting device 37, a variation of the temperature set on the jacket surface and
determined by the adjusting device 37 with the help of one tempering unit 57; 58 of at
least one of the rotation bodies 43; 47; 53; 54, e.g. cylinder 43; 47 or rollers 53; 54,
involved in the printing process and transporting the ink, is taken up. With a view to
quick, systematic and hence reproduce-able variation, in the storage 34 arranged in the
adjusting device 37 or in the evaluation unit 23 a functional relation between a variation
in ink density Dl and D2 and the temperature to be adjusted can be pre-retained, whereby
this functional relation is graphically or electronically fixed in at least a graph, table or in
any other suitable form representing the correlation.
The adjusting unit 37 shown in Fig. 2 along with the arrows here represent the effective
path of the control or regulation unit. Here no distinction has been made between signal
paths and supply paths. The adjusting unit 37 can have a control or regulating unit 72,
e.g. a control electronic mechanism 72, and/or a supply unit 71 (not shown here) for
dosing and feeding tempering agent (for this see Figs. 8-11). The control electronic
mechanism 72 then works for example according to pre-given data determined by means
of a stored logic unit on setting members (e.g. valves) of the supply unit 71.
The printing machine shown as example in fig. 2 is particularly designed as a rotor
printing machine and has a printing mechanism 41 that has at least a inking device 42, a
cylinder 43, e.g. a printing mechanism cylinder 43 designed as form cylinder 43,
carrying a print form 44, as well as a counter pressure cylinder 46. The solution for
printing machines described below for operational modes for a web velocity of more than
10 m/sec, especially greater than or equal to 12 m/sec. is particularly advantageous. The

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print form 44 is preferably designed as print form 44 for flat printing (flat print form 44),
particularly for waterless flat printing (waterless flat print form 44). The printing
mechanism 41 is designed as printing mechanism 41 for offset printing and has between
the form cylinder 43 and the counter pressure cylinder 46, another cylinder 47, e.g. a
printing mechanism cylinder 47 designed as transmission cylinder 47 with a packing on
its jacket surface. The transmission cylinder 47 forms along with the counter pressure
cylinder 46 in a print-on-position over a printing substance 49, e.g. a printing substance
web 49, a printing position 51. The counter pressure cylinder 46 can be another
transmission cylinder 46 of another not denoted printing mechanism, or can also be a
counter pressure cylinder 46 not carrying any ink, e.g. a steel cylinder or a satellite
cylinder.
The print form 44 can be designed as sleeve-shaped or even as one (or more) print plates
44, that is fastened or suspended with its end in at least one narrow channel not exceeding
a width in circumference direction of 3 mm (indicated in fig. 2). Similarly, the packing
48 on the transmission cylinder 47 can be designed sleeve-shaped or even as (at least
one) rubber blanket 48 that is similarly fastened and/or clamped in at least one channel.
If the rubber blanket 48 is designed as multilayered metal print blanket, then the channel
is also designed with the above mentioned maximum width.
The inking mechanism 42 has an ink supply unit 52, e.g. an ink tub with a dip roller or a
lifter, or a chamber wiper with ink feed, as well as at least a roller 53 that can be set
against the form cylinder 43 in a print-on-position, e.g. an inking roller 53. In the shown
example, the printing ink is transported by the ink supplying unit 52 over a roller 54
designed as screen roller 54, the roller 53, the form cylinder 43 and the transmission
cylinder 47 on to the printing substance 49 (e.g. in web form or as sheet). There can also
be at least one more, e.g. a second inking roller 53 depicted by dashed line, working
together with the screen roller 54 and the form cylinder 43. The roller 54, i.e. here the
screen roller 54, has recesses or cups on its jacket surface in order to take ink from a
reservoir 61 for the printing ink, e.g. from an ink cartridge 61 containing printing ink, and
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The printing mechanism 41 is designed as so-called "printing mechanism for waterless
flat printing", particularly "waterless offset print" (dry offset), i.e. in addition to feeding
of printing ink no further feeding of a damping agent for forming "non-printing" regions
is required. In this method one can do away with application of a moist film on the print
form 44, which otherwise in the so-called "wet offset" prevents the non-printing part on
the print form 44 from taking up ink. In waterless offset printing this is achieved by
using special printing ink and through special design of the surface of the print form 44.
Thus for example, a silicon layer in the waterless offset printing can take over the role of
the hydrophilic region of the wet offset to be coated with the damping agent and prevent
the print form 44 from taking up any ink.
Generally, the non-print areas and the print areas of the print form 44 are achieved by
designing regions with different surface tension with alternate working of the printing
ink.
In order to print tone-free, i.e. without the non-print areas also taking up ink, one required
a printing ink that is set in its easy flow (measured as tack value), that on the basis of the
surface difference between printing and non-printing part on the print form 44, a smooth
separation can take place. As the non-printing points are preferably designed as silicon
layer, for this purpose a printing ink having the higher easy flow as compared to the wet
offset is required.
The easy flow according to the "roller offset print", Walenski 1995, raises a resistance,
with which the printing ink of the film division in a roller crevice or while transmitting
the ink in the print zone between cylinder and printing substance, counter-act.
As the easy flow of the printing ink varies with temperature, in practical operation of the
printing machine, the cylinders 43; 47 or the inking device 42 are tempered, especially
cooled, and held at a constant temperature in order to avoid tinting for the changing
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The temperature dependence of rheological properties, e.g. the viscosity and/or the easy
flow, is now brought into consideration for influencing and particularly regulating the
printing ink to be transported from the reservoir to the printing substance 49. Instead of
(or in addition) mechanical setting members, e.g. opening or shutting of wipers or
alteration in speed of lifters or film rollers, by altering the temperature on the jacket
surface of at least one of the rotation bodies 43; 47; 53; 54 involved in the printing
process, the result of the comparison of the desired ink density D2 with the determined
actual ink density Dl can be influenced.
Apart from separating printing and non-printing regions, the easy flow of the printing ink
however also influences the intensity of cracking during co-acting of an ink-carrying
cylinder 43; 47 and the printing substance 49. Especially when the printing substance 49
is designed as uncoated and less dense newspaper material with very good soaking
properties, i.e. with open pores and very little repelling time, there is increased danger of
release of fibre or dust caused by cracking. The danger however is also there for lightly
coated or light-weight coated paper types used in roller offset printing with a coating
weight of say 5-20 gm/m2, especially 5-10 gm/m2 or even lesser. Tempering is overall
suited for uncoated or coated papers with a coating weight of lesser than 20 gm/m2. For
coated papers, tempering of the ink-carrying cylinder 43; 47 is advantageous when it is
determined that the coating is "offset" by increasing of easy flow of the paper (at least
partly).
In order to keep cracking on the printed substance 49 or build-up of the printing ink on
the packing 48 of the transmission cylinder 47 and/or the print form 44 of the form
cylinder 43 as low as possible, the printing ink for the application purpose and the
expected operating conditions is produced and used in such a way that it is at the lower
limit of the easy flow as far as possible.
In an extension, one or more of the ink-carrying components, like e.g. in an advantageous
design of the printing mechanism cylinder 43 designed as form cylinder 43 as ink-
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relation to the production speed V of the printing machine, for which a correlating signal
with the production speed V of the printing machine is tapped on the ink-carrying
transmission cylinder 47 with the help of a sensor, e.g. with a rotation generator (not
shown) and set to the adjusting device 37 (shown dashed in fig. 2) and/or to the
evaluation unit 23. The temperature on the jacket surface of at least one of the rotation
bodies 43; 47; 53; 54 involved in the printing process, preferably in the form cylinder 43,
is not kept constant here, as is otherwise usual in waterless offset printing, for all
production speeds V in a certain temperature range, but reveals for different production
speeds V different rated temperature T i;rated. The rated temperature T i,rated is adjusted
with the help of the adjusting device 37 in relation to the production speed V in such a
way, that the easy flow of the printing ink for any desired production speed V lies within
a pre-given window of tolerable tack values. For a higher production speed V, an
increased value is selected for the rated temperature T i,rated of the corresponding
component 43 or the printing ink.
One regulation is based on the principle that for the desired, directly next or the actually
adjusted production speed V as guiding parameter on account of a systematic allocation
of a certain rated value or maximum value for the rated temperature T i,rated of the
component 43 or the printing ink as initial parameter is foreseen. The rated value or
maximum value in both cases represents a default temperature that corresponds in the
first case to a temperature to be maintained, and in the second case to an upper limit of a
permissible temperature. On the basis of an inline conducted scanning of the ink density
Dl actually applied on the print substance 49 by the printing process, with a photo-
electric sensor 56, preferably an image sensor 56, especially a CCD-cameral 56, and
comparison of the different scanned values with the rated value foreseen in this printing
ink density D2, the temperature is however varied and fine-tuned till an adequate
conformity between the actual ink density Dl and the desired ink density D2 is achieved.
If there are other conditions, e.g. a printing ink with mainly other properties, especially
with respect to its consistency, or a printing substance 49 that has a surface structure
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cracking behaviour, then the valued of the relationship between the mentioned values can
vary significantly. Common is however the solution nevertheless of adjusting the
temperature of the form cylinder 43 in relationship of production speed V, and in such a
way that in the range of higher production speed V it has a higher rated value or
maximum value and for a region of a lower production speed V. In this way cracking
between the ink-carrying cylinder 43; 47 and the printing substance 49 is reduced and in
the ideal case almost prevented.
The above mentioned relationship between a determined ink density variations and a
temperature alteration and/or between temperature on the jacket surface at least one of
the rotation body 43; 47; 53; 54 involved in the printing process and the production speed
V of the printing machine, can be stored for different printing ink and/or printing
substance type. Even the printing operation then the specific relationship for the
respective printing ink and/or the concerned printing substance 49 is used. For this, see
also the descriptive part of the design example shown figs. 6 and 7.
In an advantageous design at least the screen roller 54 and the formed cylinder 43 has a
tempering device 57; 58 acted upon by a fluid tempering agent, e.g. water, acting from its
interior to its respective jacket surface, whereby the temperature on the jacket surface of
the screen roller 54 with respect to the ink quantity to be transmitted from it and the
temperature on the jacket surface of the formed cylinder 43 under consideration of the
production speed V of the printing machine for avoiding crack and/or toning is adjusted,
preferably controlled or regulated. The adjusting device 37 is designed according to the
case in question, whether the process is controlled or regulated, as a control unit 37 or as
a regulating unit 37. In the case of design as a control unit 37 there is no feedback
through photo-electric sensor 56 or the signal of data supplied by it.
For controlling the temperature of the jacket surface of the screen roller 54, in the fore-
field of production for the interested pairs printing ink/paper of various production speed
V that temperature (empirical) is determined, at which the desired ink density can be
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the screen roller 54 the actually adjusted temperature can be determined with the help of
at least one of the thermo-sensor 59 arranged on or at least near to the jacket surface to
the screen roller 54, whose output signal is fed to the adjusting device 37 or the
evaluating unit 23 and then adjusted afresh if required in relationship to a comparison
with temperature with rated temperature conducted in the adjusting unit 37 or the
evaluation unit 23 and continued with it in order to convey the ink quantity required for
the printed image.
Parallel to the control/ regulation of the temperature on the jacket surface of the screen
roller 54 the temperature of the jacket surface of the form cylinder 43 is controlled or
regulated in relationship of the production speed V (sometimes additionally dependence
on the printing substance and/or the printing ink), whereby regulation of the temperature
on the jacket surface of the form cylinder 43 under application of a further (not shown)
thermo-feeler is similar to that of regulation of the temperature on the jacket surface of
the screen roller 54. This is however not additionally varied through the result of the
output unit 23, but it correlates with the production speed V of the printing machine.
It is of advantage that a temperature to be adjusted for a value of the production speed V
of the printing machine on the jacket surface of the roller, especially the screen roller 54
and/or the cylinder, particularly the form cylinder 43, is adjusted or at least
adjustment/setting of this required temperature is started before the printing machine sets
the new value of the production speed V, so that the temperature adjustment with respect
to a desired alteration in the production speed V takes place in an advanced manner. By
means of this pre-control an otherwise systematically occurring error can be avoided, as
due to a time-advanced adaptation of the temperature adjustment the quantity of produced
wastage as a result of unsuitable temperature adjustment can be significantly reduced.
Because the adaptation of the temperature adjustment reacts at least more slowly, i.e.
with a longer reaction time till reaching a stable operating condition, than the alteration in
production speed V that is carried out with the help of electronically controlled or
regulated drives. In this way a desired alteration is production speed V that is for example
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belonging to the evaluation unit 23, e.g. can be programme-technically delayed by the
evaluation unit 23 in its execution till the tempering unit 57; 58 has reached the
temperature required for the new production speed V and to be set o the jacket surface of
the screen roller 54 and/or the form cylinder 43 completely or at least to a significant
extent of clearly about 50%, preferably above 80%, ideally above 90%.
The above described measures are suitable with respect to the screen roller 54 alone or
for the printing machine as a whole and also foreseen for the reason that the temperature
to be set on the jacket roller of the screen roller 54 can be adjusted in relation to the
production speed V of the printing machine in such a way, that with increasing
production speed V of the printing machine a reducing capacity of the recesses designed
on the jacket surface of the screen roller 54 for transmission of ink on to the rotation body
53 adjacent to the screen roller 54 is compensated by a reduction in viscosity of the ink
caused by the set temperature. Because, with increasing production speed V of the
printing machine the recesses or cups on the jacket surface of the screen roller 54 filled
with printing ink get increasingly incompletely emptied, so that the worsening
transmission behaviour of the screen roller 54 can be compensated by an adapted
thinning of the printing ink to be transmitted, whereby the reduction in viscosity of the
printing ink takes place with the help of the temperature to be set on the jacket surface of
the screen roller 54.
In another advantageous design the tempering unit 57; 58 is designed in such a way that
the temperature set with the adjusting device 37 allocated to this tempering unit 57; 58,
on account of a pre-given functional allocation for a value of the production speed V of
the printing machine on the jacket surface of the roller 54, and/or the cylinder 43,
particularly the form cylinder 43 can be altered within fixed limits by manual adjustment.
In this way one has an intervention possibility into pre-machine-given settings, whereby
within a maximum permissible tolerance range defined by bound values of e.g. +/- 5% or
10% with respect to the default value can be manually fine-tuned as required. The bound
values can be symmetrically or unsymmetrical distanced from the default value and for
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Fig 3 shows an example of a functional relation, (e.g. equation B in Fig. 6) as to how the
rated temperature T i,rated on the jacket surface of at least one of the rotation bodies 43; 47;
53; 54 involved in the printing process can be dependent on the production speed V of the
printing machine. The functional relation can be linear or non-linear. In any case, on the
basis of the functional relation for a printing process fixed on account of the used printing
ink and the used print substance 49 in relation to production speed V of the printing
machine, a suitable value for the rated temperature T i,rated to be set on the jacket surface
of at least one of the rotation bodies 43; 47; 53; 54 involved in the printing process can be
determined. The mechanically determined value for the rated temperature T i;rated to be set
on the jacket surface of at least one of the rotation bodies 43; 47; 53; 54 involved in the
printing process can be manually altered within pre-given limits in the sense of a fine
tuning, which is indicated in Fig. 3 by a vertical double arrow enclosed by boundary
lines.
Fig. 4 similarly shows as an example a functional relation of an ink quantity conveyed by
the screen roller 54 in relationship to the production speed V of the printing machine. By
adapting the temperature T on the jacket surface of the screen roller 54, especially the
viscosity of the printing ink to be conveyed can be altered in such a way that the
conveying rate on altering the production speed V of the printing machine remains at
least almost constant. This can be done by means of a pre-retained equation (e.g.
Equation A in Fig. 6) between production speed V and a rated temperature T i;rated.
Especially the conveying rate of the screen roller 54 can however be made alternatively
or in addition to its dependence on the production speed V of the printing machine be
made dependent on a determined variation in the actually determined ink density Dl and
on the ink density D2 pre-given as rated value.
The index "i" or "j" in the rated temperature T i,rated or T i,rated is supposed to indicate that
this could have to do with several stored relationships A; B for different components 43;
54 and/or ink types F and/or paper sorts. Thus in the storage unit 34 of the adjusting unit
37 respectively a quantity of different relations A; B at least for the respective rated
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which one can have access through the input and output unit 33 of say the adjusting unit
37.
Fig. 6 and 7 show in a display mask and/or input mask a design example for a tempering,
where the prescribed rated temperature T i,rated; T j,rated of the component 43; 54 to be
tempered - here the screen roller 54 and the form cylinder 43 - is given in the
relationship A for the form cylinder 43 and B for the screen roller 54 to the production
speed V. For this, in a storage unit 34, e.g. in a data bank of the control post computer, of
the adjusting unit 37 or the evaluation unit 23, for different printing inks or ink types
colour-specific curves/graphs (analytical) or support points (tabular) are stored for the
relationship between rated temperature T i,rated; T j,rated of the concern component 43; 54
and the production speed V. As one can see in fig.6 there are own relationships A; B
(curves or tables) for tempering of screen roller 54 and form cylinder 43. The curves
shown in fig.6 are based on pre-retained support points particularly in a data bank of the
storage unit 34 for a particular selected ink type F (here for example "HUBER
MAGENTA"). Selection of the ink type F and hence the relationship can take place for
the screen roller 54 and/or the form cylinder 43 from a list, e.g. through a mask or a menu
corresponding to fig.7. While selecting a printing ink or ink type F the stored
relationship A; B (a curve and/or the stored support points) is loaded and drawn as basis
for adjusting the tempering of this component 43; 54. The curves or support points can
be stored in the storage unit 34 in an alterable and subsequently altered manner by the
operating personnel for carrying out an adaptation.
On the basis of this pre-retained relationship A; B or connections a required target
temperature or rated temperature T i,rated; T j,rated of the component 43; 54 to be tempered
is defined for the existing production speed V, given out as prescribed value for the rated
temperature T i,rated; T j,rated and converted for example through a supply unit 71 with
control electronic mechanism 72 as described in details below.
Advantageous is a design, according to which a pre-retained relationship A; B (as curve
and/or as series of support points) can be corrected upwards or downwards by the

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operating personnel altogether absolutely or relatively. This is expressed in fig.6
(respectively for the form cylinder 43 and the screen roller 54) by the input field "Temp.-
Offset [%]" and the input field "curve alteration". In this way the relationship A; B for
the selected ink type F can basically be retained; an adaptation to particular ink density
requirements and/or an adaptation to the requirements of different print substances can
however be taken up manually through an input on the display mask and/or input mask
(fig. 6 and 7) displayed on the monitor of the input and output unit 33. In the variant
"Temp.-Offset [%]" however, the stored and displayed relationship itself is not changed
but nearly the desired value obtained for the subsequent regulating cycle is subjected to
the alteration. Thus the pre-retained relationship A; B or curve is basically retained; the
alteration has an effect merely on the selected printing mechanism. In the second variant
"curve alteration" the relationship (curve or series of support points can actually be
altered. It can be foreseen that this takes place by adding a constant (total raising or
lowering) and/or in a percentage manner (spreading or crushing).
In this example, for the form cylinder 43 the target or rated temperatures T i,rated for
production speeds V of 5000 cylinder rotations per hour lie preferably between 20 and
24°C and for 35000 cylinder rotations per hour between 24 and 28°C. For the
screen roller 54 the target or rated temperatures T i,rated for production speeds V of
5000 cylinder rotations per hour lie between 22 and 27°C and for 35000 cylinder
rotations per hour between 31 and 36°C.
From fig. 5 we can see that several cycles for tempering separated from one
another can be foreseen in the printing machine, namely particularly a supply
cycle K2, e.g. cycle K2 for at least one of the printing mechanism cylinders 43; 47
and/or the screen roller 54, as well as another supply cycle K3, e.g. cycle K3 for
the drives M of the printing mechanism cylinders 43; 47 and/or the screen roller
54 and/or if required for the regulator allocated to these drives M as components
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The tempering agent consisting mainly of water (with or without additives) for
tempering the printing mechanism cylinders 43; 47 and/or the screen roller 54 is
made available through a cooling unit 77, e.g. a cold central unit 77, in a
temperature range between 10°C and 25°C, whereas the tempering agent for
tempering the drives M of the printing mechanism cylinders 43; 47 and/or the
screen roller 54 is readied in a temperature range between 24°C and 30°C. As
described in more details below, this whole central unit 77 can have an air-cooled
condenser and/or a free cooling unit and/or a booster cooling for a peak capacity at
higher surrounding temperatures, e.g. in summer, and/or a heat exchanger for heat
recovery and/or a compressor-cold machine. As explained below it should
preferably have at least two of these cooling units 77.
Through heat recovery, e.g. a unit/device for heat recovery 66 as described for
example in fig. 12 and 13, 5 - 10% of the cooling capacity of the cooling
processes 87 (see below) can be recovered. This recovered energy can be drawn
for an internal utilisation 64, like for example a building tempering, hot water
preparation, a building air moistening or for fresh air pre-heating and/or even as
(part) energy source for a hot water storage 76 (see fig. 5 and 8). As schematically
shown in fig. 5 the heat recovery 66 can be from different sources, e.g. indicated
by the heat flow 68 and 69 from the reflux of the supply cycle K3 and/or K2
and/or even as indicated by the heat flow 63 from the surrounding air heated in the
region of the printing units or from the heated product flow. Especially tempering
of the 43; 54 through tempering agents and heat recovery leads to the fact that the
printing machine releases heat only to relatively less extent to the surrounding air
and/or to a sample flow of print products produced by it, so that the energy fed by
energy sources 67 into the printing machine, particularly electrical energy of say
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The hot water storage 76 has for example a holding capacity of approx. 1 m3 for
each printing tower 73 (see below) and feeds to the tempering unit 57; 58 of the
printing mechanism cylinders 43; 47 and/or the screen roller 54 the stored
tempering agent at a temperature Tl of say between 50°C and 70°C for a
relatively short time period of say 3 to 4 minutes during run-up of the printing
machine, in order to set the temperature on the jacket surface of the printing
mechanism cylinders 43; 47 and/or the screen roller 54 to at least 50°C, e.g. 55°C,
at least for the period of run-up of the printing machine. Due to the increased
temperature Tl of the tempering agent from the hot water storage 76 the printing
machine is brought to its working temperature within a short time, which has a
favourable effect on the quality of print products produced during start-up of the
printing machine. Ejection of start-up wastage is thereby reduced.
The following designs for control of tempering and supply with tempering agent
are particularly advantageous in conjunction with one or more of the already
mentioned design features, e.g. with the regulating cycle for ink density in
connection with the evaluation unit 23 and/or with tempering of the screen roller
54 in relation to the speed and/or with tempering of the form cylinder 43 in
relation to the speed. For details on this refer to explanations above.
Supply of tempering agent to the components 43; 54 takes place as shown in fig. 8
through decentralised supply units 71, which along with a control electronic
mechanism 72 (on location) form for example a decentralised adjusting unit 37 for
one or more printing mechanisms 41. The adjusting unit 37 or the supply unit 71
is preferably allocated to a group of printing mechanisms 41, which together form
at least one printing unit 73. For example, the printing unit 73 represents the
group of all printing mechanisms 41 allocated to a web to be printed on and/or it
forms a printing tower 73. Fig. 8 shows on the right side a first section with a
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with two printing towers 73 and an allocated folding apparatus 74. The supply
unit 71 can be allocated to one or more adjacent printing towers 73 of a section. In
this supply unit 71 there are supply lines and regulating valves (described further
below) for the desired supply of required tempering agent at a suitable temperature
to the components 43; 54 to be tempered.
The supply unit 71 or the allocated control electronic mechanism 72 receives from
a super-ordinate control unit 75, e.g. a logic system implemented in the machine
control or a control room computer, either directly the above mentioned desired or
rated temperatures T i,rated after these have been determined as described above on the
basis of stored equations A; B, or the control electronic mechanism 72 receives at least
data regarding ink type F and/or production speed V, which enables a logic system
implemented in the control electronic mechanism to determine the desired or rated
temperature Ti,rated on the basis of equations A; B stored there.
The supply units 71 arranged decentralised in the printing machine plant close to the
printing tower are now connected to a first supply cycle Kl, which supplies tempering
agent at a first temperature range Tl above the surrounding temperature to the supply
units 71 purely for heating purposes. This tempering agent can either be heated as
required, as for example in a run-through heater. Ideally however, a suitably tempered
stock is already retained in a storage 76, e.g. a tempering agent storage 76 or a heating
fluid storage 76, particularly a hot water storage 76. Energy supply to these or the
heating is not discussed here in details. This can takes place with usual heating
appliances, with or without released heat utilisation, on the printing machine. In an
advantageous design with released heat utilisation at least a portion of the heating energy
can be used for the storage 76, e.g. through heat recovery 66, especially heat recovery 66
according to or similar to fig. 13 with heating pump 121. A pump 70 (see fig. 11)
transporting the tempering agent in the cycle K3 can ideally be foreseen in a line branch
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The supply unit 71 is further connected at least to a second cycle K2 which supplies
tempering agent at a second temperature range T2 to the supply unit 71 for tempering
purposes, which depending on the actual requirement could basically be in a range of say
between 5°C and 30°C, preferably 8 to 25°C, ideally 10 to 15°C. Depending on the
requirement of the desired component temperature, more or less of the tempering
agent from this supply cycle K2 is mixed with a tempering cycle KFZ; KRW (see
below) tempering the component 43; 54. For readying the tempering agent a
cooling unit 77, e.g. a cold central unit 77, has at least a corresponding cooling
process (also tempering agent source), preferably however two different cooling
processes (tempering agent sources) with respect to energy. The tempering agent
of this level can come in direct or indirect relationship to the level of outside
temperature and the temperature level T2 required by the printing machine, as
desired from the different cooling processes or tempering agent sources of the cold
unit 77 or generally as is specific mix of tempering agent from both cooling
processes that are energy-wise different (see below). Details about the nature and
manner of how this can be readied by a cooling unit 77 are further described
below in fig. 11. A pump 80 transporting the tempering agent in the cycle K2 can
ideally be foreseen in a line branch of the supply cycle K2 in the supply unit 71, or
even in the cold unit 77.
In a design shown as dashed line in the right hand part of fig. 8, a third cycle K3 is
foreseen that is similarly supplied by the cold unit 77. The cold unit 77 (see
below) provides tempering agent to this supply cycle K3 at an 'average'
temperature level T3 that lies at a higher temperature range as compared to the
cycle K2, e.g. 20 to 35°C, particularly 24 to 30°C. The requirement or definition
of the desired temperature level T3 to the cold unit 77 takes place through a
computing and/or control unit 100 of the printing machine on a logic unit 92, e.g.
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and the control unit 75 can be designed as a single control unit or as components
of the same control unit.
In an alternative shown by dashed line in fig. 8 and 9, the cycle K3 is connected to
the decentralised supply unit 71 and the tempering agent is fed to the receivers
(see below: drives M and/or drive regulators) of the printing towers 73 not directly
as described above but through the supply unit 71.
Fig. 9 shows an advantageous extension of the decentralised supply unit 71 that
contains at least both the supply cycles Kl and K2 as well as in a possible design
version (dashed line) the supply cycle K3. The supply unit 71 is allocated to a
group of n printing mechanism 41, which here form the printing mechanism 41 of
a printing tower 73 (e.g. fig. 8, right). For reason of better overview only two
cylinders 43 to be tempered, e.g. form cylinders 43, and two rollers 54, e.g. screen
rollers 54, are shown, which ultimately corresponds to two print points, e.g. a
double print point for simultaneous both-sided printing of two transmission
cylinders 47 placed against one another in rubber-against-rubber operation.
In the shown design form preparation of the tempering agent takes place in the
tempering cycle KFZ, short cycle KFZ of the form cylinders 43 pair-wise, i.e.
always two form cylinders 43, particularly those of a common double print point
are supplied parallel with the prepared tempering agent. Basically, depending on
the requirement, it is also possible to allocate a tempering cycle KFZ to each
individual form cylinder 43 or even larger groups (e.g. four, six or eight) of form
cylinders 43.
The tempering takes place in such a way that in the tempering cycle KFZ the
tempering agent, driven by a pump 81, circulates and thereby flows through the
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58. At the crossing point 82 tempering agent from one of the supply cycles Kl
(for heating purposes) or K2 (for cooling purposes) can be fed and an adequate
quantity can be discharged at the crossing point 83. Selection of the dosage of
tempering agent takes place through the position (opened or closed) of valves 78.
Remote-controlled switching valves 78 in corresponding line branches and
connected to the supply cycles Kl; K2. After connecting the line branches dosage
of the selected tempering agent takes place in the tempering cycle KFZ through a
remote-controlled dosage valve 79. At the crossing point 82 the dosed quantity
gets mixed with the tempering agent circulating in the tempering cycle KFZ,
whereby quick mixing can be further accelerated by a (not shown) turbulence
chamber between crossing point 82 and pump 81.
A desired/rated value for a temperature of the component 43; 54 (explained here on the
basis of a form cylinder pair representative of individual or groups of form cylinders 54
or screen rollers 54) can be generated on principle in different ways and should now be
converted in the supply unit 71 for this component 43; 54. The value for the desired or
rated temperature T i,rated of the component 43; 54 to be tempered can be given as
described above for fig. 6 and 7 in relationship to the production speed V, whereby
additionally also the ink type F and/or paper type to be used can be considered. In the
simplest version of the regulating cycle the conversion can take place in a manner that at
least a measured value m2 for the temperature of the tempering agent is determined
shortly before entry into the component 43; 54 and/or a measured value m3 for the
surface temperature of the component 43; 54 excel, e.g. as measured value m3 of an
intra-red sensor directed on to the roller surface, is determined and compared with the
relevant desired/rated value in the control electronic mechanism 72. Depending on the
variation, tempering agent from one of the supply cycles Kl or K2 is fed into the cycle
KFZ (or KRW, see below) through the dosage valve 79. Selection of the required cycle
K2; K3 (temperature level Tl or T2) takes place through a corresponding setting
command SI; S2 from the control electronic mechanism 72 to the switching valves 78
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through a setting command S from the control electronic mechanism 72 through the
dosage valve 79.
An advantageous extension of the described regulating cycle reacts significantly faster
with a measured value ml for the temperature shortly after mixing at the crossing point
82, particularly after a turbulence chamber and still before the pump 81, a measured value
m2 of the temperature of the tempering agent shortly before entry into the component 43;
54 (already in the region of the corresponding printing mechanism 41) and/or a measured
value m3 (of an intra-red sensor) for the surface temperature of the component 43; 54 or
of the ink present on it itself, and a measured value m5 for the temperature of the
tempering agent in reflux (already again in the supply unit 71) before the crossing point
83. In an extension also additionally a measured value m4 can be taken up shortly after
exit from the component 43; 54 (still in the region of the corresponding printing
mechanism 41). These measured values ml to m3 and m5 as well as, if required, m4 are
now jointly processed in a multiple-cascading regulating cycle under consideration of
running time corrections and pre-controlled members, as described in details in the
document WO 2004/054805 Al, the content of which is specifically referred to in this
context. Especially by using the measured value ml shortly behind the dosage point, if
required after a turbulence stretch but before the pump 81, it is possible to significantly
reduce the reaction time under consideration of regulating stretch information, as
compared to a regulation where only measured values m3, m4 or m5 are taken into
account. The result of an intervention in the last mentioned case is noticed and taken into
account only much later.
Also measured values m6 and m7 are taken for recording the temperatures in the feed-
flow lines of the supply cycles Kl and K2 and fed to the control electronic mechanism 72
for consideration.
The structure and effectiveness of a tempering cycle KFZ; KRW was described in fig. 9
merely on the example of the form cylinder 43. However this has to be similarly applied

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to the other tempering cycles KFZ of other form cylinders 43 allocated to the supply unit
71, as well as to tempering of the screen rollers 54.
In the example the screen rollers 54 are tempered individually to a number of 1
independently controllable tempering cycles KRW short cycle KRW, which are
connected to both the cycles Kl and K2. This has the background that in this way for
each individual screen roller 54 the ink quantity to be transported can be set. For the sake
of safety the tempering cycles KRW of two screen rollers 54 of a double print point are
connected to one another through bypass lines that can be closed. For this, corresponding
valves 84 are foreseen. If for example, in one of both cycles KRW, a pump 81 or dosage
valve 79 fails, then temporarily tempering of the endangered component 43; 54 can be
taken over by the corresponding cycle KRW after opening and closing corresponding
valves 84. The same is indicated by dashed line for the cycle KFZ of the form cylinders
43, whereby tempering of two form cylinders 43 affected by the breakdown can be taken
over by an adjacent cycle KFZ of two other form cylinders 43.
If also the cycle K3 is coupled to the supply unit 71, then the principle of mixing of
tempering agent from the cycle K3 into a tempering cycle KAN short cycle KAN, by
which one or more groups of drives M of the printing unit 73 can be tempered, can be
applied (see dashed line depiction of K3 in fig. 9). In this case the preparation of this
cycle KAN is controlled by the allocated dosage valve 79 in relationship to the measured
value ml directly after feeding and/or in relation to the measured value m5 in the reflux.
As no heating up is required here, the tempering cycle KAN is connected only with one
supply cycle K3. As the drive tempering is less critical than that of the form cylinders 43
or rollers 54, here a larger number of n drives M can be tempered by a common cycle
KAN. It could be advantageous if a number of m = 2 cycles KAN is foreseen to
respectively supply to one half (left or right side of a printing unit 73 or printing tower
73) (see fig. 10).
In both cycles K2 and K3 the inlet and outlet line in the region of their end away from the
cold unit 77 are preferably connected to one another through at least one bypass line that

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can be opened or closed by means of switch-able valves 85. If the cycles KFZ and KRW
take up very little tempering agent then this valve 85 can be opened in order to maintain
an adequate fluid flow and thus retain a correctly tempered tempering agent in the feed
line for the cycles KFZ and KRW. Here two or more bypass lines can be used for each
cycle Kl; K2 with valves 85 of different flow cross-sections, or even one valve 85 per
cycle, whose flow quantity can be controlled. Thus the circulation quantity can be
set/adjusted staggered according to requirement.
In the cycle K2 always at least a small quantity of tempering agent circulates, so that if
tempering agent of suitable temperature is required the reaction time is as short as
possible.
Fig. 10 shows an advantageous extension of a printing tower 73 with a number of i = 8
printing mechanism 41 which here form a number of h = i/2 = 4 double print points or
double printing mechanisms 62 for simultaneous both-sided printing with two
transmission cylinders 47 placed against one another in rubber-against-rubber-operation.
The supply unit 71 with control and regulating unit 72 is allocated to the printing drum
73. As shown explicitly only for the bottom-most of the four double printing
mechanisms 62, each screen roller 54 of the printing tower 73 has its own cycle KRW.
The form cylinders 43 belonging to the same double print mechanism 62 pair-wise have a
common cycle KFZ. All rotary drives M, the screen roller 54 and form and transmission
cylinders 43; 47 of the same side of the print material web 49 are connected to a common
cycle K3. Thus for this printing tower 73 one obtains k = 4 cycles KFZ, 1 = 8 cycles
KRW and m = 2 cycles KAN according to fig. 9. All form and transmission cylinders
43; 47 as well as screen rollers 54 have as drives M individual drives mechanically
independent of one another, so that for each cycle KAN a number of n = 12 drives M can
be tempered.
For supplying the printing machine or the supply units 71 with tempering agent of the
second cycle K2 and also the third cycle K3 the cold central unit 77is foreseen. In a
particularly advantageous design form the cold central unit 77, as shown in fig. 11, is

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designed as combination plant that has two cooling processes 86; 87 coupled with one
another, namely a first process 87 with a unit 89, 90, 91, e.g. cold machine 89, 90, 91 for
generating compression cold, and a second process 86 with a unit 88 for cooling with the
help of surrounding or atmospheric air. The first process 87 is designed for cooling a
tempering agent to a temperature level Tk below the surrounding or atmospheric
temperature. However, it is important that the processes 86; 87 are coupled with one
another in such a way that both above mentioned cycles K2; K3 can be supplied with
cold by both processes 86; 87. Depending on the requirement of temperature level T2;
T3 of the concerned cycle K2; K3, this supply can take place through one or the other
process 86; 87 as desired, or by a combination of both processes 86; 87. For this, an
intelligent control 92 is foreseen for readying the tempering agent for the cycles K2; K3
by optimum utilisation of the unit 88 for cooling with the help of surrounding or
atmospheric air.
The second process 86 has in a first cooling agent or fluid cycle 93 the unit 88 for cooling
with the help of surrounding or atmospheric air, in short free cooling unit 88, which for
example can be designed as convection cooler with or without evaporator. The energy
exchange takes place through thermal contact between the fluid of the fluid cycle 93 and
the atmospheric air and in case of additional spraying with water also makes use of the
evaporation cold. The free cooling unit 88 is thermally coupled through the fluid exit-
side to the cycles K2; K3 - e.g. respectively through a heat exchanger 94; 96. It is
especially coupled on to the refluxes of both cycles K2; K3, from which part-flows 106;
107 can be taken away after flowing to the heat exchangers 94; 96 through regulate-able
valves 103; 104 for feeding again into both the cycles K2 and K3. The more or less big
de-coupled part-flow 108; 109 is brought into thermal contact with the first process 87
before the required quantity of fluid cooled in this process 87 is fed into the cycles K2;
K3 through the valves 103; 104. For regulating the flow volume passing through the heat
exchangers 94; 96 on the side of the fluid cycles 93, a regulate-able valve 97; 98 is
respectively foreseen, which divides the fluid flow into a flow through the heat exchanger
94; 96 and a flow flowing into the reflux to the unit 88. Conveying of the fluid takes
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The first process 87 is foreseen in order to reduce the fluid of the de-coupled part-flows
108; 109 to a temperature level Tk under atmospheric temperature and for readying it for
re-coupling into the cycles K2; K3. For cold generation the first process 87 has cold
agents in a fluid cycle 101, the unit 89, 90, 91 for generating compression cold that has a
compressor 89, a cooler 91, e.g. as free cooling unit 91 and a relaxing valve 90. The unit
89, 90, 91 or the first process 87 is thermally coupled with the cycles K2 and K3 behind
the relaxing valve on the exit side. The process 87 is coupled through the heat exchanger
to part-flows 111; 112 for return-feeding of previously de-coupled and subsequently
cooled fluid into both the cycles K2 and K3. Between heat exchanger 102 and the valves
103; 104 a storage 113 can be arranged, from which the part-flows 111; 112 can be
served and in which the de-coupled part-flows 108; 109 are guided. Thus through a
pump 114 fluid from the storage 113 can be continuously conveyed in a circle through
the heat exchanger 102 and, on the other side, cooled fluid can be taken as required for
re-feeding into the cycles K2 and K3.
Both the refluxes from K2 and K3 are thus first brought into thermal contact with the
second process 86 before they can be respectively divided as required by the respective
rated temperatures T2rated; T3rated into two part-flows, where one part-flow is straight
away fed into the supply flow of the concerned cycle K2; K3, whereas the other part-flow
is brought in thermal contact with the first process 81, before fluid cooled in this process
87 is similarly fed back into the supply flow of the concerned cycles K2; K3. The
respective ratio/relationship between the flows 106 to 111 or 107 to 112 is set by the
control and can basically lie from 0% to 100% to 100% to 0% of the respective set feed
flow 116; 117, i.e. the feed flow 116; 117 can be prepared from a mixture of both part-
flows 106 and 111 or 107 and 112 or even only from one of the part-flows 106 or 111, or
107 or 112.
If this is not prepared and conveyed in the supply unit 71, as described above and
indicated by continuous lines in fig. 8 and 9 for the cycle K3, a pump 95 can be foreseen
in the feed flow 116 of the cycle K3. In the case shown by dashed line in fig. 9 the
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The control 92 receives from a computing and/or control unit 100 of the printing machine
rated temperatures T2rated; T3rated for the temperature levels T2; T3 in the initial run of the
cycles K2; K3 and from a thermometer the outside temperature TA. The computing
and/or control unit 100 can be part or process of a machine control, a control computer or
even a process in another control unit allocated to the printing machine. Depending on
the rated temperatures T2rated; T3rated and the outside temperature TA the cooling strategy
is laid down by the control 92 and through only indicated signal contacts the resulting
settings of the concern valve 103; 104 are done, e.g. regulating valves 103; 104 (and if
required 97; 98) as setting members 103; 104 (97; 98).
Possible operating situations are described as example below for a certain given value of
rated temperature T2rated; T3rated, e.g. T2rated having a value between 10°C and 25°C and
T3rated having a value between 24°C and 30°C. If the outside temperature TA of air is say
TA 77, i.e. the rollers 54 and cylinders 43 takes place to a maximum of approx. 50% through
the process 86, e.g. the free cooling unit 88 and the remaining requirement through the
cold machine 89, 90, 91. The cooling or supply of the connected cycles K3, i.e. the
drives, takes place up to 100% to the free cooling unit 88. The feed flow 116 is fed up to
100% from the part-flow 106.
With increasing outside temperature TA to say approx.20°C the cooling or supply to the
cycles K2 connected to the cold unit 77 takes place to an increasing extent to a cold
machine 89, 90, 91 and lesser and lesser to the free cooling unit 88. The cooling or
supply of the connected cycles K3 can still take place up to 100% through the free
cooling unit 88, if for example a rated temperature T3rated of say 24 to 30°C is pre-given.
If the outside temperature TA lies at approx. 20 - 24°C then cooling or supply of the
cycles K2 connected to the cold unit 77 takes place exclusively through the cold machine
89, 90, 91; the feed flow 117 into the cycle K2 takes place up to 100% from the part-flow

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112. Cooling or supply through the connected cycles K3 now takes place only partially
through the free cooling unit 88 and the remaining part to the cold machine 89, 90, 91.
If the outside temperature is say approx. 24°C or more, the cooling or supply of the
cycles K2 and K3 connected to the cold unit 77 takes place only through the cold
machine 89, 90, 91.
In addition to the described outside temperature influence the pre-given data for the rated
temperatures T2rated; T3rated, particularly the rated value temperature T2rated, could vary
with the machine status of the printing machine, especially with the production speed V.
Important for generating the rated value T2rated is however the lowest required/rated value
temperature of all printing mechanisms 41 or their form cylinders 43 and screen rollers
54 to be supplied by the cold unit 77. Adherence to this lowest rated temperature must be
ensured by the pre-given value of the rated value temperature T2rated. If this lowest rated
temperature for the component 43; 54 to be tempered gets altered with run-up of the
machine to higher production speeds V, then the rated value temperature T2rated can also
be increased by the computing and/or control unit 100. By raising the rated value
temperature T2rated the above mentioned threshold temperatures for the different cooling
combinations can however also go up.
Fig. 12 and 13 show two advantageous extensions in which a portion of heat energy is
recovered. These extensions can be integrated individually or together into the above
mentioned tempering.
In the first version (fig. 12) a direct utilisation of the hot reflux takes place, e.g. with
maximum temperature of 35 to 40°C, preferably approx. 38°C, from the cycle K3 to
tempering of the drives M, for example by a fluid-gas-heat exchanger 119, e.g. a heat
exchanger-heat register, for direct air heating during winter operation.
In the second version (fig. 13) utilisation of the tempering agent reflux from the cycle K2
takes place as heat source for a heating pump 121. Through the heating pump 121a

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higher temperature level, e.g. up to 55°C, can be attained in a storage 122 than in the
version shown in fig. 12; however, additional structural complication and energy
consumption is required.
Both recovery concepts shown in fig. 12 and 13 can however also fall back on the other
source (K2 or K3) - e.g. in fig. 12 on the reflux of K2 and in fig. 13 on the reflux of K3.
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List of reference signs
1 Printing mechanism
2 Printing mechanism
3 Printing mechanism
4 Printing mechanism
05

6 Form cylinder
7 Form cylinder
8 Form cylinder
9 Form cylinder
10

11 Transmission cylinder
12 Transmission cylinder
13 Transmission cylinder
14 Transmission cylinder
15

16 Counter pressure cylinder, transmission cylinder
17 Counter pressure cylinder, transmission cylinder
18 Counter pressure cylinder, transmission cylinder
19 Counter pressure cylinder, transmission cylinder
20

21 Print carrier, print sheet, material web, paper web
22 Image sensor, colour camera, flat camera, semi-conductor camera
23 Evaluation unit, computing unit
24 Data line
25

26 Data line
27 Lighting device, flash bulb
28 Layout
29 Delivery stack
30

31 Data line
32 Rotation generator
33 Input and output unit
34 Storage/memory
35

36 Connection of a company network
37 Adjusting device, control unit, regulating unit
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39
40
41 Printing mechanism
42 Inking device
43 Cylinder, printing mechanism cylinder, form cylinder, component

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44 Print form, print plate, flat print form, waterless flat print form
45
46 Counter pressure cylinder, transmission cylinder
47 Cylinder, printing mechanism cylinder, transmission cylinder, component
48 Packing, rubber blanket
49 Print substance, print substance web, print carrier
50

51 Print position
52 Ink supply, component
53 Roller, inking roller, component, rotation body
54 Roller, screen roller, component
55

56 Photo-electric sensor, image sensor, CCD-camera
57 Tempering unit (54)
58 Tempering unit (43)
59 Thermo-sensor
60

61 Reservoir, ink cartridge
62 Double printing mechanism, double print point
63 Heat flow for recovery
64 Utilisation, internal
65 -
66 Heat recovery
67 Energy source
68 Heat flow for recovery
69 Heat flow for recovery
70 Pump
71 Supply unit
72 Control or regulating unit, control electronic mechanism
73 Printing tower, printing unit
74 Folding apparatus
75 Control unit
76 Storage, tempering agent storage, hot water storage
77 Cooling unit, cold central unit
78 Switching valve
79 Dosage valve
80 Pump
81 Pump
82 Crossing point
83 Crossing point
84 Valve
85 Valve
86 Cooling process, process, second
87 Cooling process, process, first
88 Unit, free cooling unit
89 Compressor

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90 Relaxing valve
91 Cooler, free cooling unit
92 Unit, logic, control
93 Cooling agent or fluid cycle
94 Heat exchanger
95 Pump
96 Heat exchanger
97 Valve, regulate-able, regulating valve, setting member
98 Valve, regulate-able, regulating valve, setting member
99 Pump
100 Computing and/or control unit
101 Fluid cycle
102 Heat exchanger
103 Valve, regulate-able, regulating valve, setting member
104 Valve, regulate-able, regulating valve, setting member
105 -
106 Part-flow
107 Part-flow
108 Part-flow
109 Part-flow
110 -
111 Part-flow
112 Part-flow
113 Storage
114 Pump
115 -
116 Feed flow
117 Feed flow
118 Thermometer
119 Fluid-gas-heat exchanger
120 -
121 Heating pump
122 Storage
A Relationship, form cylinder
B Relationship, screen roller
Dl Ink density, actual
D2 Ink density, desired
F Ink type
M Drive, components
V Production speed

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Ti,rated Rated temperature, desired temperature
Tj,rated Rated temperature, desired temperature
Kl Supply cycle, cycle
K2 Supply cycle, cycle
K3 Supply cycle, cycle
Tl Temperature, temperature levels
T2 Temperature levels
T3 Temperature levels
KAN Tempering cycle, cycle (M)
KFZ Tempering cycle, cycle (43)
KRW Tempering cycle, cycle (54)
ml Measured value
m2 Measured value
m3 Measured value
m4 Measured value
m5 Measured value
m6 Measured value
m7 Measured value
S Setting command
51 Setting command
52 Setting command

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Claims
1. Method for adjusting the transmission of printing ink, where a first roller (54)
arranged in an inking device (42) of a printing machine transmits printing ink on
to a form cylinder (43), whereby with a tempering unit (57) of the first roller (54)
a rated temperature (Tj,rated) is set on its jacket surface and/or with a tempering
unit (58) of the form cylinder (43) a rated temperature (Ti,rated) is set on its jacket
surface, where the tempering unit (57) of the first roller (54) and/or the tempering
unit (58) of the form cylinder (43) are controlled or regulated by an adjusting unit
(37), where in a storage unit (34) of the adjusting unit (37) colour-specific
curves/graphs or support points are stored for different printing ink or ink types at
least for a relationship between a production speed (V) of the printing machine
and the respective rated temperature (Ti,rated Tj,rated) on the jacket surface of the
form cylinder (43) or on the jacket surface of the first roller (54),
having the distinctive feature that
at least the respective relationship between the production speed (V) of the
printing machine and the respective rated temperature (Ti,rated; Tj,rated) on the jacket
surface of the form cylinder (43) or on the jacket surface of the first roller (54) is
selected from a quantity of colour-specific curves/graphs or support points stored
for different printing ink or ink types in a display mask and/or input mask on a
monitor of the input and output unit (33), whereby with the rated temperature
(Tj,rated) sets on the jacket surface of the first roller (54) a first parameter of the
printing ink is adjusted and with the rated temperature (Ti,rated) sets on the jacket
surface of the form cylinder (43) another second parameter of the same printing
ink transmitting to the form cylinder (43) is adjusted, where the first parameter of
the printing ink adjusted on the jacket surface of the first roller (54) relates to its
viscosity and the second parameter of the printing ink adjusted on the jacket
surface of the form cylinder (43) relates to its easy flow.
2. Method for adjusting the transmission of printing ink, where a first roller (54)
arranged in a printing mechanism (42) of a printing machine transmits printing
ink on to a form cylinder (43), where with a tempering unit (57) of the first roller

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(54) a rated temperature (Tj,rated) is set on its jacket surface and/or with a
tempering unit (58) of the form cylinder (43) a rated temperature (Ti,rated) is set on
its jacket surface, where the tempering unit (57) of the first roller (54) and/or the
tempering unit (58) of the form cylinder (43) is controlled or regulated by an
adjusting unit (37), where in a storage unit (34) of the adjusting unit (37) colour-
specific curves/graphs or support points are stored for different printing ink or ink
types at least for a relationship between a production speed (V) of the printing
machine and the respective rated temperature (Ti,rated; Tj,rated) on the jacket surface
of the form cylinder (43) or on the jacket surface of the first roller (54),
having the distinctive feature that
with an alteration in the value of the production speed (V) an alteration in the
setting of the respective rated temperature (Ti,rated; Tj,rated) on the jacket surface of
the first roller (54) and/or of the form cylinder (43) is started before the new value
of production speed (V) for the printing machine is set.
3. Method as per claim 1 or 2,
having the distinctive feature that
for different printing ink or ink types the respective relationship between the
production speed (V) of the printing machine and the respective rated temperature
(Ti,rated; Tj,rated) on the jacket surface of the form cylinder (43) or on the jacket
surface of the first roller (54) is graphically depicted in the display mask and/or
input mask on the monitor of an input and output unit (33).
4. Method as per claim 2,
having the distinctive feature that
at least the respective relationship between the production speed (V) of the
printing machine and the respective rated temperature (Ti,rated; Tj,rated) on the jacket
surface of the form cylinder (43) or on the jacket surface of the first roller (54) in
the display mask and/or input mask on the monitor of the input and output unit
(33) is selected from a quantity of colour-specific curves/graphs or support points
stored for different printing inks or ink types.

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5. Method as per claim 1 or 2,
having the distinctive feature that
at least the relationship between the production speed (V) of the printing machine
and the respective rated temperature (Ti,rated; Tj,rated) on the jacket surface of the
form cylinder (43) or on the jacket surface of the first roller (54) displayed for a
selected printing ink or a selected ink type in the display mask and/or input mask
on the monitor of the input and output unit (33) is altered by an input and/or
selection in the display mask and/or input mask.
6. Method as per claim 5,
having the distinctive feature that
the alteration effected by input and/or selection of the displayed relationship
between the production speed (V) of the printing machine and the respective rated
temperature (Ti,rated; Tj,rated) on the jacket surface of the form cylinder (43) or on
the jacket surface of the first roller (54) is altered within fixed limits.
7. Method as per claim 5,
having the distinctive feature that
the alteration effected by input and/or selection of the displayed relationship
between the production speed (V) of the printing machine and the respective rated
temperature (Ti,rated; Tj,rated) on the jacket surface of the form cylinder (43) or on
the jacket surface of the first roller (54) is stored in the storage unit.
8. Method as per claim 5,
having the distinctive feature that
the alteration effected by input and/or selection of the displayed relationship
between the production speed (V) of the printing machine and the respective rated
temperature (Ti,rated; Tj,rated) on the jacket surface of the form cylinder (43) or on
the jacket surface of the first roller (54) subjects the respective rated temperature
(Ti,rated; Tj,rated) on the jacket surface of the form cylinder (43) or on the jacket
surface of the first roller (54) to a temperature offset.

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9. Method as per claim 5,
having the distinctive feature that
the alteration effected by input and/or selection of the displayed relationship
between the production speed (V) of the printing machine and the respective rated
temperature (Ti,rated; Ti,rated) on the jacket surface of the form cylinder (43) or on
the jacket surface of the first roller (54) alters the original relationship stored in a
storage unit (34) between the production speed (V) of the printing machine and
the respective rated temperature (Ti,rated; Tj,rated) on the jacket surface of the form
cylinder (43) or on the jacket surface of the first roller (54).
10. Method as per claim 2,
having the distinctive feature that
the tempering units (57; 58) adjust one parameter of the printing ink.
11. Method as per claim 2,
having the distinctive feature that
with the rated temperature (Tj,rated) set on the jacket surface of the first roller (54)
a first parameter of the printing ink is adjusted, and with the rated temperature
(Ti,rated) set on the jacket surface of the form cylinder (43) another second
parameter of the same printing ink transmitting to the form cylinder (43) is
adjusted.
12. Method as per claim 2,
having the distinctive feature that
the first parameter of the printing ink set on the jacket surface of the first roller
(54) relates to its viscosity.
13. Method as per claim 2,
having the distinctive feature that
the second parameter of the printing ink set on the jacket surface of the form
cylinder (43) relates to its easy flow.

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14. Method as per claim 1 or 2,
having the distinctive feature that
setting of the rated temperature (Tj,rated) on the jacket surface of the first roller (54)
and setting of the rated temperature (Ti,rated) on the jacket surface of the form
cylinder (43) are taken up selectively.
15. Method as per claim 1 or 2,
having the distinctive feature that
setting of the rated temperature (Tji,rated) on the jacket surface of the first roller (54)
is taken up independent of the setting of the rated temperature (Ti,rated) on the
jacket surface of the form cylinder (43).
16. Method as per claim 1,
having the distinctive feature that
with an alteration in the value of the production speed (V) of the printing machine
a corresponding alteration in the setting of the respective rated temperature
(Tj,rated; Ti,rated) on the jacket surface of the first roller (54) and/or the form
cylinder (43) is commenced before the new value for the production speed (V) of
the printing machine is set.
17. Method as per claim 2 or 16,
having the distinctive feature that
execution of the setting of a new value of production speed (V) is delayed till the
first roller (54) and/or the form cylinder (43) has completely or at least to a large
extent attained the rated temperature (Tj,rated; Ti,rated) to be set for the respective
jacket surface for the new value of the production speed (V).

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18. Method as per claim 1, 12 or 13,
having the distinctive feature that
the viscosity and/or easy flow of the printing ink is considered for influencing the
ink quantity to be transported from a reservoir (61) of the printing ink to a print
substance (49).
19. Method as per claim 1 or 12,
having the distinctive feature that
after setting the viscosity for increased production speed (V) of the printing
machine a reduction in the capacity of the first roller (54) for transmitting printing
ink on to a rotation body (53) adjacent to the first roller (54) is compensated by a
reduction in viscosity of the printing ink effected by the set temperature.
20. Method as per claim 1 or 12,
having the distinctive feature that
after setting the viscosity, a conveying rate of the first roller (54) even after
alteration of the production speed (V) of the printing machine is kept almost
constant.
21. Method as per claim 1 or 13,
having the distinctive feature that
the easy flow influences a separation of the printing ink between printing and
non-printing areas of a print form (44).
22. Method as per claim 1 or 13,
having the distinctive feature that
the easy flow influences the strength of a crack when an ink-carrying cylinder
(43; 47) works together with the material to be printed on (49).

The invention relates to a method for adjusting the transfer of printing ink, wherein a first roller (54), which is
arranged in an inker unit (42) of a printing machine, transfers printing ink to a form cylinder (43). A temperature control unit (57)
enables the outer surface of the first roller (54) to reach the required temperature and/or a temperature control unit (58) enables
the outer surface of the form cylinder (43) to reach the required temperature. Said temperature control unit (57) of the first roller
(54) and/or the temperature control unit (58) of the form cylinder (43) can be, respectively, controlled or regulated by an adjusting
device (37). specific curves or reference points for an interrelation between the production speed (V) of a printing machine and the
respective required temperature on the outer surface of the form cylinder (43) or on the outer surface of the first roller (54) are stored
in a storage unit (34) of the adjusting device (37) for various printing inks and/or ink types.

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2007-KOLNP-2007-(19-03-2012)-CORRESPONDENCE.pdf

2007-KOLNP-2007-ABSTRACT 1.1.pdf

2007-KOLNP-2007-AMANDED PAGES OF SPECIFICATION.pdf

2007-KOLNP-2007-CLAIMS.pdf

2007-KOLNP-2007-CORRESPONDENCE 1.1.pdf

2007-KOLNP-2007-CORRESPONDENCE OTHERS 1.4.pdf

2007-KOLNP-2007-CORRESPONDENCE.pdf

2007-KOLNP-2007-DESCRIPTION (COMPLETE) 1.1.pdf

2007-KOLNP-2007-DRAWINGS 1.1.pdf

2007-KOLNP-2007-EXAMINATION REPORT REPLY RECIEVED.pdf

2007-KOLNP-2007-EXAMINATION REPORT.pdf

2007-KOLNP-2007-FORM 1.1.pdf

2007-KOLNP-2007-FORM 18.pdf

2007-KOLNP-2007-FORM 2.1.pdf

2007-KOLNP-2007-FORM 26 1.1.pdf

2007-KOLNP-2007-FORM 26.pdf

2007-KOLNP-2007-FORM 27.pdf

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2007-KOLNP-2007-FORM 3.pdf

2007-KOLNP-2007-FORM 5.pdf

2007-KOLNP-2007-GRANTED-ABSTRACT.pdf

2007-KOLNP-2007-GRANTED-CLAIMS.pdf

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2007-KOLNP-2007-GRANTED-LETTER PATENT.pdf

2007-KOLNP-2007-GRANTED-SPECIFICATION.pdf

2007-KOLNP-2007-INTERNATIONAL PUBLICATION.pdf

2007-KOLNP-2007-INTERNATIONAL SEARCH REPORT.pdf

2007-KOLNP-2007-OTHERS 1.1.pdf

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2007-KOLNP-2007-OTHERS PCT FORM.pdf

2007-KOLNP-2007-OTHERS.pdf

2007-KOLNP-2007-PETITION UNDER RULE 137.pdf

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Patent Number 251895
Indian Patent Application Number 2007/KOLNP/2007
PG Journal Number 16/2012
Publication Date 20-Apr-2012
Grant Date 16-Apr-2012
Date of Filing 04-Jun-2007
Name of Patentee KOENIG & BAUER AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
Applicant Address FRIEDRICH-KOENIG-STR.4, 97080 WURZBURG
Inventors:
# Inventor's Name Inventor's Address
1 SCHNEIDER, GEORG FRITZ-HABER-STR.13, 97080 WURZBURG
2 REDER, WOLFGANG, OTTO THUNGERSHEIMER STR. 35 97209 VEITSHOCHHEIM
PCT International Classification Number B41F 13/22
PCT International Application Number PCT/EP2005/057231
PCT International Filing date 2005-12-30
PCT Conventions:
# PCT Application Number Date of Convention Priority Country
1 102005005303.3 2005-02-04 Germany
2 102005000856.9 2005-01-05 Germany
3 PCT/EP05/052287 2005-05-18 Germany