Patent ID: 6425330
Filing Date: 2002-07-30
Classification: B41F

Abstract:
A method of changing a printing plate on a plate cylinder in a sheet-fed offset printing machine, the printing plate having a print-end edge at an end of a print end of the plate and a print-start edge at a start of a print end of the plate and the printing machine being configured such that the plate cylinder rotates in a printing direction during a printing operation, the method comprising the steps of:feeding the printing plate to the plate cylinder with the printing plate oriented with the print-end edge leading the print-start edge, fixing the print-end edge of the printing plate to a first fixing device on the plate cylinder assigned to the print-end edge of the printing plate, rotating the plate cylinder in a direction opposite to the printing direction to draw the printing plate around the outer circumference of the plate cylinder, fixing the print-start edge of the printing plate to a second fixing device on the plate cylinder that is assigned to the print-start edge of the printing plate, and tensioning the printing plate on the plate cylinder.