Patent ID: 8733752

Claim:
A method for operating a print further processing system ( 1 , 1 ′) for producing and processing printed products, in particular of printed product collections from completed final printed products such as periodicals and newspapers, the method comprising: putting together a main product and a plurality of part products and/or inserts, wherein the printed products are produced in accordance with a predefined production plan; processing the printed products with a stacking device ( 70 , 70 . 1 - 70 . 5 ) to form a sequence of packs (S) of individually predefined size, in order to produce part packs; reducing the processing speed of at least one of a collating apparatus, a circulator, an insertion drum and a feed conveyor of the print further processing system ( 1 , 1 ′) that are connected upstream of the stacking device ( 70 , 70 . 1 - 70 . 5 ), when a threshold value (T) is exceeded, in order to adapt to the processing capacity of the stacking device ( 70 , 70 . 1 - 70 . 5 ); and forming empty positions (L) under control in a section of the product sequence allocated to the pack (S).