Patent ID: 6360665
Filing Date: 2002-03-26
Classification: B41F,B41P

Abstract:
A method for drawing a web of material through a web-fed rotary printing press including:providing a plurality of selectable web destinations in the web-fed rotary printing press; providing selectable paths for the web of material to travel through the web-fed rotary printing press to said selectable web destinations; selecting one desired web destination from said plurality of selectable web destination; providing the web of material with at least one piece of bar coded information; providing said one desired web destination in said at least one piece of bar coded information; providing means for reading said bar coded information provided on the web; providing web draw-in devices useable to deliver the web of material to said plurality of selectable web destinations controlling said web draw-in devices based on said bar coded information read by said reading means; and using said controlled web draw-in devices to direct the web of material through one of said selectable paths for the web of material to travel to said selected one desired web destination.