Patent ID: 6286428
Filing Date: 2001-09-11
Classification: B41F,B65B

Abstract:
A method for printing packaging parts (2) comprising;providing packaging parts having at least two differently disposed surface levels (3, 4) in a vertical direction, the packaging parts (2) being a part of a continuous foil web (1), the packaging parts (2) lying at a distance from each other and being in connection with one another via the foil web,feeding the continuous foil web with the packaging parts forward towards a printing section (B),sensing a preselected portion of the packaging parts and stopping the feeding of the continuous foil web,calculating a position for printing a preselected number of the packaging parts in the printing section,advancing the foil web such that the preselected number of packaging parts arrive at the calculated position for printing and simultaneously sensing another preselected number of packaging parts to be printed which are stopped at an entrance to the printing section, and calculating a position for printing the preselected number of packaging parts stopped at the entrance to the printing section such that they are subsequently precisely advanced to the calculated position for printing.