Patent ID: 8141485
Filing Date: 2012-03-27
Classification: B41F

Abstract:
1. A printing press system comprising: a first printing press; at least one first printing unit in the first printing press and having a first machinery alignment; a first former structure in the first printing press and arranged in the first machinery alignment of the at least one first printing unit; a second printing press; at least one second printing unit in the second printing press and having a second machine alignment; a dryer in the second printing press and arranged in the second machinery alignment of the at least one second printing unit; a second former structure, the first former structure and the second former structures being different from each other in at least one of a number of formers arranged side-by-side on a machine level of one of the first and second former structures being different from a number of formers arranged side-by-side in the machine level of the other former structure, and in an effective width of at least one of the formers in one of the first and second former structures being different from an effective width of any of the formers in the second former structure, and wherein one of a web and a partial web, which has been imprinted in the second printing unit and which has been conducted through the dryer, can be selectively conducted onto one of the second former structure and the first former structure.