Patent ID: 6352027
Filing Date: 2002-03-05
Classification: B41F,B65H

Abstract:
A method for operating a sheet-fed printing machine, which comprises:providing at least one of a printing unit and a coating unit; disposing a further unit inline with and downstream of the at least one of the printing unit and the coating unit in the sheet transport direction, the further unit having a finger protector, an adjustable cylinder, and an impression cylinder; in one operating mode of the sheet-fed printing machine, at least one of printing and coating a printing-material sheet in the then active at least one of the printing unit and the coating unit; and subsequently, in an in-line process, passing the print-material sheet by the then inactive further unit, transporting the printing-material sheet with the impression cylinder, adjusting the adjustable cylinder into a clearance position far removed from the impression cylinder, and protecting the finger protector from smearing the freshly at least one of printed and coated printing-material sheet transported past the finger protector by at least one of exposing, applying, and loading the finger protector with blast air.