Patent ID: 6349642
Filing Date: 2002-02-26
Classification: B41F

Abstract:
A drive control for a sheet-fed printing machine, comprising:a plurality of printing units, each of the printing units including cylinders, at least some of the cylinders being mechanically decoupled from others of the cylinders, the cylinders of all of the printing units together including a feeder, transfer rollers, printing cylinders, rubber cylinders, plate cylinders and inking systems, at least some of the cylinders forming a sheet-travel module; electrical drives, each having an assigned, separate control, all of the assigned separate controls having a common reference variable, each of the mechanically decoupled cylinders being assigned a separate, respective one of the electrical drives; and a reference variable interpolator prescribing the common reference variable, the interpolator continually interpolating the common reference variable as a function of an acceleration capacity of the printing machine and a preselected rotational speed.