Patent ID: 7856925

Claim:
A method for arranging printing formes on a forme cylinder of a printing press including: arranging a plurality of printing forme mounting positions located side by side in an axial direction of said forme cylinder and being usable for each receiving one of said printing formes; providing a storage device having a plurality of storage positions which are arranged side by side in said axial direction of said forme cylinder; storing each of said printing formes in one of said plurality of storage positions before being arranged in one of said mounting positions; spacing said plurality of storage positions from each other at a fixed distance; displacing at least one of said forme cylinder and said storage device relative to one another along an adjustment path in said axial direction of said forme cylinder; causing a printing forme stored in one of said plurality of storage positions to be arranged in one of said plurality of printing forme mounting positions in response to said displacing of said at least one of said forme cylinder and said storage device along said adjustment path; and locating said one of said plurality of printing forme mounting positions adjacent a mounting position of another one of said plurality of printing formes to be mounted on said forme cylinder at a decreasing distance which is less than said fixed distance between two adjacent ones of said plurality of storage positions of said storage device.