Patent ID: 7331287
Filing Date: 2008-02-19
Classification: B41F,B41P

Abstract:
1. A device for storing a dressing, to be exchanged on a cylinder, with several dressings, of a printing press, comprising: a dressing receiving arrangement adapted to store said dressings to be exchanged; at least one code reader associated with said dressing receiving arrangement and adapted to detect a characteristic applied to each dressing for identification of each dressing; an allocation plan for an intended printing process to be conducted by the printing press; a control unit, said control unit being usable to compare said detected characteristic applied to all dressings stored in said receiving arrangement with said allocation plan and to determine if said dressings are stored in said receiving arrangement in a correct sequence for said intended printing process prior to an exchange of said dressings on the cylinder; and means in said control unit for generating a warning, as a result of an error in said comparison, prior to said exchange of said dressings on the cylinder.