Patent ID: 8100053
Filing Date: 2012-01-24
Classification: B42C,B42P

Abstract:
1. A method for at least partially cycle-dependent manufacturing of bound printed products by adhesive binding printed sheets in a spine area of a book block or by stitching with staples folded edges of printed sheets collected astraddle, the printed sheets made from a sequentially double-sided digitally printed paper web or from individual sheets, the method comprising the steps of: uncoiling the paper web or supplying individual sheets; printing images or text on at least one side of the paper web or individual sheets; transversely cutting the printed paper web or individual sheets into printed sheets in a transverse cutting station; folding the printed sheets transversely to a conveying direction of the printed sheets in a transverse folding station downstream of the transverse cutting; providing an adhesive binding station; providing a gather stitcher station; subsequently optionally supplying the printed sheets to a first conveying path downstream of the transverse folding station and extending at a right angle to the conveying direction of the printed sheets and leading to the adhesive binding station or to a second conveying path arranged downstream of the transverse folding station and extending at a right angle to the conveying direction of the printed sheets and leading to the gather stitcher so that the printed sheets undergo adhesive binding or stitching.