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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 09, 1997
Filed:
Aug. 28, 1996
Wolfgang Geissler, Bad Schonborn, DE;
Gerhard Fischer, Sinsheim, DE;
Helmut Kipphan, Schwetzingen, DE;
Rudolf-Karl Uhrig, Schriesheim, DE;
Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG, Heidelberg, DE;
Abstract
Printing control element for detecting color register deviations in a defined direction, the printing control element being disposed in a selected region on a printed product produced by a printing press and scannable by a single opto-electronic sensor device, includes a plurality of equidistant geometric figures disposed adjacent one another in a row without gaps therebetween in the defined direction when a print is in-register, every third one of the adjacent geometric figures being in a set color and, respectively, in the defined direction, one of the geometric figures in another color being disposed adjoining the third geometric figure; and a method of regulating color register.