Patent ID: 8463429

Claim:
A method for producing and loading of bundles of printed products that belong to at least one shipment assigned to a means of transportation, the bundles of printed products each consisting of a given number of printed products in correspondence with specified consolidated orders the method comprising the following steps: the bundles of printed products of the at least one shipment are produced on at least two production lines that can be operated independently of each other; the bundles of printed products are conveyed to a loading station allocated to the at least one shipment; the bundles of printed products are loaded at the loading station; and the production lines for producing the bundles of printed products are automatically controlled by a central control device for all production lines on the basis of shipment data representing the individual consolidated orders of the at least one shipment, wherein, when reaching a specified production status of a bundle of printed products corresponding to a preceding consolidated order of the same shipment on a first production line, an enable signal is generated, which causes the generation of a production signal which initiates the production of a further bundle of printed products of the shipment on another production line.