Koenig & Bauer-aktiengesellschaft

Michael Pscheidl

Arndt Jentzsch

Christian Ziegenbalg

Uwe Becker

Victor Hefftler

Hans-Bernhard Bolza-Sch&uuml;nemann

Reinhard Nerger

Michael Kastner

Tilo Steinborn

Matthias Lange

A method for driving a printing press having, (i) an impression cylinder, (ii) at least one cylinder group having (a) a blanket cylinder, (b) a printing form cylinder, and (1) an imaging device, (2) an inking unit, and (3) an inherent drive system, all for said printing form cylinder, (iii) a sheet feeding device, (iv) a sheet delivering device, (v) a drive wheel train connecting the cylinders and the inking unit, and (vi) optionally a main motor drive, the method comprising detaching the printing form cylinder from the drive wheel train, driving the printing form cylinder by the inherent drive system at imaging speed during image formation, and re-attaching the printing form cylinder after image formation to the drive wheel train in an operating phase position.

Method and device for driving a printing press with an integrated imaging device

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Heidenau, Germany

Michael Pscheidl