Patent ID: 8001891

Claim:
A combined printing press system having a first printing press ( 01 ) which is embodied as a newspaper printing press ( 01 ), and which has at least two first printing units ( 02 ) in a first machinery alignment (M 1 ), each being configured as a printing tower ( 02 ), each such printing tower having several first printing groups arranged on top of one another for performing two-sided multi-color printing of a first web, each of said first printing groups having printing group cylinders whose axes of rotation are transverse to said first machinery alignment, said first printing press further having, a first longitudinal former structure ( 07 ) arranged in said first machinery alignment (M 1 ) of said at least two first printing units ( 02 ) and a first folding unit, said printing press system further having a second printing press, different from said first printing press ( 31 ), and which is combined with said first printing press in said combined printing press system and which second printing press has at least one second printing unit ( 03 ), with a second machinery alignment (M 2 ), said at least one second printing unit having second printing unit cylinders whose axes of rotation are transverse to said second machinery alignment (M 2 ) and a second longitudinal former structure ( 17 ) separate from said first former structure, and a second folding unit, wherein said first printing units ( 02 ) and said at least one second printing unit ( 03 ) are arranged in a printing press system line parallel to said first and second machinery alignment (M 1 ; M 2 ) wherein, in a projection of each of their widths onto a plane that is perpendicular in relation to the first and second machinery alignments (M 1 ; M 2 ) and to the printing press system line, the first printing units and the at least one second printing unit ( 02 ; 03 ) at least overlap one another, characterized in that the first printing units ( 02 ; 03 ), which are configured as printing towers ( 02 ), differ from the at least one second printing unit ( 03 ) in at least one of a maximum length of each such printing unit that is effective for printing and a circumference of an image-conveying printing group cylinder of each such printing unit ( 04 ; 14 ) and further wherein, in a mixed production of said combined printing press system, one of a first web and a first partial web printed by said first printing press is combined with one of a second web and a second partial web printed by said second printing unit and said combined ones of said first and second webs and partial webs are conveyed onto said first former structure of said first printing press and in an independent production of said combined printing system, said one of said second web and second partial web printed by said second printing unit is conveyed onto said second former structure of said second printing press separate from said one of said first web and said first partial web from said first printing press.