Patent ID: 6955122

Claim:
A process for setting a crop mark for and/or in a print production, in which prints are continuously printed on a web; the process comprising: cutting the web lengthwise into a first web strand and at least one second web strand; converging the first web strand with at least the second web strand and/or at least one other web strand to form a web strand bundle; cross-cutting the web strand bundle between prints following each other in the direction of conveying; adjusting lengths of paths of the web strands of the bundle, before the convergence, by path length changes that are selected to be such that crop mark positions of the web strands related to the cross cutting are set; and said step of adjusting lengths of the paths includes selecting the path length change for the first web strand to be such that a greatest of the path length changes is smaller than it would be if the path length of the first web strand were not adjusted.