Patent ID: 8807035

Claim:
A method for setting a position register and a color register in a sheet-fed printing press having printing units each with respective register setting elements, a feeder with setting elements, and a control computer configured to control a travel of the register setting elements and a travel of the setting elements of the feeder, the method which comprises: prior to carrying out a setting operation, calculating with the control computer required travels for the respective register setting elements in each of the printing units and the setting elements in the feeder for correcting register problems between the register setting elements and the feeder, and carrying out an optimization of the travels of the respective register setting elements simultaneously with the travels of the setting elements in the feeder; and carrying out the setting operation by setting the position register and the color register with the control computer and thereby using the respective register setting elements in the printing units and the setting elements in the feeder and the optimized travels thereof.