Patent ID: 6167806
Filing Date: 2001-01-02
Classification: B41F,Y10S

Abstract:
A control device for controlling the printing of at least one web of material in a rotary printing press from a control panel, including an interface system between an operator and individual components of the printing press, comprising an automatic page selector for reading out and determining specifications assigned to the printed copy to be checked, said specifications including a page and web number, respectively, a section of a respective newspaper, one of an edition and a version, respectively, and a page of the respective web, said specifications being formed as a code insertable into an image printed on the copy, a memory for storing therein information pertaining to the printing press, products to be printed, control parameters of the individual printing press components, and display parameters of printing process variables, an interrogator for interrogating the memory, and a monitoring/control system for passing on all data to the printing press in order to use a selected component and to modify a variable appertaining thereto.