Patent ID: 8035837
Filing Date: 2011-10-11
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A communications system for a printing press comprising: a machine unit of the printing press and having at least one printing unit including at least one forme cylinder; at least one illustrating device for the at least one forme cylinder of the at least one printing unit; a pre-printing stage associated with the machine unit and adapted to make image data available to the machine unit; a first network for transmitting at least the image data to the at least one illustrating device of the at least one printing unit and wherein the illustrating device illustrates a printing image location in the printing unit; a second network at least one of controlling and monitoring the machine unit; a third network for communicating data to be processed in the preprinting stage, the third network being provided in the preprinting stage, which pre-printing stage makes image data available to the machine unit; and a single one of at least one of a signal line and a transmission path and wherein the first network for transmitting at least image data to the at least one illustrating device, the second network for at least one of controlling and monitoring the printing press, and the third network for communicating data to be processed in the preprinting stage are all connected to the single one of the at least one of the signal line and the transmission path.