Patent ID: 8871047
Filing Date: 2014-10-28
Classification: B41F,B42C,B42D,B65H,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A method of producing a multi-leaf, folded printed product based on a material web which is printed in a digital printing station and has at least three printed material-web portions arranged one beside the other in its longitudinal direction, the method comprising: moving the material web in an advancement direction; combining a first material-web strand, which is formed by one of the at least three printed material-web portion, with a second material-web strand, which is formed by two of the at least three printed material-web portions, while the material web is moved in the advancement direction; connecting the first material-web strand to the second material-web strand by means of an adhesive being applied in the longitudinal direction of the material web in a region of a center line of the second material-web strand; severing subproducts from the interconnected first and second material-web strands by cutting transversely to the advancement direction of the material web, the subproducts comprising a first printed sheet, severed from the first material-web strand, and a second printed sheet, connected to the first printed sheet and severed from the second material-web strand, wherein a width of the second printed sheet is double a width of the first printed sheet, stacking the subproducts to form a stack, wherein folding the subproducts as a stack about a folding line which runs between the adjacent printed portions of the second printed sheet to form an end product wherein the folding line defines a first side and a second side of the end product and wherein the end product comprises on the first side twice the number of leaves than on the second side.