Patent ID: 8033745
Filing Date: 2011-10-11
Classification: B41J

Abstract:
1. A printing press comprising: a digital print station including a digital printing unit arranged to digitally print an image onto a printing sheet during movement of a print head across the printing sheet in a first direction; a printing sheet transport system arranged to intermittently feed and remove the printing sheet from the digital print station; a printing table arranged to support the printing sheet during feeding of the printing sheet to the digital print station and removing of the printing sheet from the digital print station, and providing an area arranged to hold the printing sheet during the digital printing; and a device arranged to firmly fix the printing table to the digital printing unit during digital printing and release the printing table from the digital printing unit during feeding of the printing sheet to the digital print station and removing of the printing sheet from the digital print station; wherein the device arranged to firmly fix the printing table to the digital printing unit is positioned outside the area arranged to hold the printing sheet; and the device arranged to firmly fix the printing table to the digital printing unit includes a first fork mounted on the printing table outside the area arranged to hold the printing sheet and a second fork mounted on the digital printing unit, a mechanism arranged to engage a knife with the first fork and with the second fork, and a fixing device arranged inside of each of the first and second forks to firmly fix an engaged position of the knife.