Patent ID: 8863657

Claim:
An installation for processing a cigarette paper web with a basis weight not exceeding 70 g/m 2 , the installation comprising: an input side, via which the paper web is fed to the installation; an output side via which the paper web leaves the installation, wherein the paper web runs through the installation from the input side to the output side in a conveying direction; an applying device downstream of the input side for applying a liquid print medium onto the paper web to provide a printed side of the paper web; a first drying station following the applying device in the conveying direction for drying the print medium applied to the paper web; a humidification device for humidifying the paper web following the first drying station in the conveying direction; and a second drying station with an entrance and following the humidification device in the conveying direction, by means of which the humidified paper web is dried, wherein the second drying station uses contact drying, in which the humidified paper web is in direct contact with at least one heated drying roller including a first heated drying roller being the first drying roller in the conveying direction, and wherein the first heated drying roller is not in contact with the printed side of the paper web, wherein a drying roller directly following the entrance of the second drying station is the only drying roller provided with a hood, wherein that drying roller is at least partially radially surrounded by the hood which directs a stream of hot air at least partially around that drying roller such that the paper web is exposed to the drying stream of hot air.