Patent ID: 6079330
Filing Date: 2000-06-27
Classification: B41F

Abstract:
A rotary press having a paper web supply apparatus for continuously feeding a paper web to be printed, a printing apparatus for receiving and continuously printing said paper web to be printed, and a post-printing processing apparatus for receiving and processing said continuously printed paper web, said rotary press further comprising:a plurality of heating rollers arranged in two columns such that adjacent said heating rollers do not contact each other, with the distance between adjacent said heating rollers being smaller than the sum of their diameters and larger than one half the sum of their diameters, at a downstream side of said printing apparatus in a path along which a paper web carrying printed images runs from the printing apparatus to the post-printing processing apparatus, for receiving and heating said continuously printed paper web to a temperature of evaporating solvent from a printing ink;at least one cooling roller at a downstream side of said plurality of heating rollers for receiving and cooling the resultant heated printed paper web,wherein said plurality of heating rollers and said cooling roller are disposed such that the running paper web contacts each of said rollers over at least one-fourth of an outer circumference of said heating roller and an outer circumference of said cooling roller.