Patent ID: 7448320

Claim:
A printing unit of a web-fed rotary printing press comprising: at least first and second pairs of two cylinders, each of said two cylinders in each of said at least first and second pairs of two cylinders including a transfer cylinder and an associated forme cylinder, each said transfer cylinder and each said associated forme cylinder having a width for imprinting six newspaper pages arranged axially side-by-side; at least one dressing on each said transfer cylinder, said at least one dressing having first and second dressing ends; a shell surface on each said transfer cylinder; at least one axially extending dressing end receiving opening in said transfer cylinder shell surface, said first and second dressing ends being receivable in said at least one dressing end receiving opening; a shell surface on each said forme cylinder, each said forme cylinder shell surface having a circumferential length of two vertical newspaper pages; first and second axially extending printing forme end receiving channels in said shell surface of each said forme cylinder, each said printing forme end receiving channel extending axially over said six newspaper page width of said forme cylinder, said first and second axially extending printing forme end receiving channels being spaced from each other in a circumferential direction on said shell surface of each said forme cylinder; a plurality of printing formes on each said forme cylinder and arranged axially side-by-side on plurality of sections of said shell surface of each said forme cylinder and at least two of said plurality of printing formes being arranged one behind the other in said circumferential direction of each said forme cylinder; at least one drive motor for each of said at least first and second pairs of said cylinders, each said drive motor driving its pair of cylinders independently; and at least one printing forme pressing device having six first pressing roller elements associated with at least one of said forme cylinders, said six first pressing roller elements being movable independently of each other and each being engageable with one of said six printing formes of said associated one of said forme cylinders during rotation of said associated one of said forme cylinders.