Patent ID: 6055907
Filing Date: 2000-05-02
Classification: B41F,B41P

Abstract:
A process for attaining a production-run state for printing an image on a printing web, in a web-fed rotary printing machine with a form cylinder and an inking mechanism having ink zones, the inking mechanism including an ink duct box, an ink duct roller, and a plurality of ink transfer rollers and a plurality of ink application rollers arranged so as to ink the form cylinder by zones in accordance with the image to be printed, comprising the steps of:(a) driving the ink duct roller, the plurality of the ink transfer rollers and the plurality of the ink application rollers independently of the form cylinder;(b) inking the ink duct roller, the plurality of the ink transfer rollers and the plurality of the ink application rollers with printing ink in accordance with the image to be printed one of parallel to and independent of a start-up process of the form cylinder and the printing web; and(c) positioning the plurality of ink application rollers on the form cylinder when the form cylinder has reached a predetermined speed.