Patent ID: 7940417
Filing Date: 2011-05-10
Classification: B41F

Abstract:
1. Method for storing data of at least one individual component of a printing press, which printing press comprises a plurality of said individual components and at least one communications network, wherein data of each of a plurality of the individual components that are integrated into the printing press, and which data characterizes each individual component, is stored in an individual component memory unit, which belongs to this individual component, which individual component memory unit is configured as an integral part of the individual component, and which individual component memory unit is connected to the communications network, wherein in the printing press, which has at least two control levels that are different from one another and are hierarchically organized, the data of a plurality of the individual components, which are located in the printing press in a lower-order control level, are transferred, via the communications network, from their individual component memory units to at least one component, which is located in the printing press in a higher-order control level, wherein these data, which are transferred to the at least one component which is located in the higher-order control level, are linked, in a continuous updating process, with location information relating to the location of the individual lower level component which is transmitting the data in its lower level control level each time such data are transferred from one control level to a next higher control level.