Patent ID: 6311619
Filing Date: 2001-11-06
Classification: B41F,B41P

Abstract:
A sheet-fed rotary printing machine comprising:printing units for multi-colour printing, anda coating unit, the coating unit comprising:a sheet-guide cylinder,a form cylinder which carries a cover for accepting a coating fluid, anda metering system including a screened applicator roller defining a rough intaglio printing form with a basic screen having depressions, a portion of a circumferential surface of the applicator roller having an evenly curved surface in a roller casing which is substantially congruent to a cylinder pit of the form cylinder,a dispensing device for imaging the applicator roller by filling the depressions of the basic screen with a liquefiable substance,a stripping device for the image-conforming removal of the liquefiable substance from the depressions, anda regenerating device for regenerating the depressions of the applicator roller so as to return the depressions to the rough intaglio printing form.