Patent ID: 6895857

Claim:
A web-fed printing unit comprising: a first cylinder pair including a first forme cylinder and a first transfer cylinder; a second cylinder pair including a second forme cylinder and a second transfer cylinder; a satellite cylinder, said first and second transfer cylinders cooperating with said satellite cylinder in a print-on position of said web-fed printing unit; and a separate drive motor for each said forme cylinder and for each said transfer cylinder in each of said first and second cylinder pairs, each said drive motor for each said cylinder driving its own cylinder with no driving connection to other ones of said cylinders for rotation of each of said at least two cylinders of each said cylinder pair both during set-up and production of the printing unit, said satellite cylinder having a satellite cylinder draw-in rotational speed for drawing in a web which satellite cylinder draw-in speed is different from a zero rotational speed and from a production rotational speed, at least one of said first and second transfer cylinders simultaneously having a set-up rotational speed which transfer cylinder set-up rotational speed is different from a production rotational speed and from said zero rotational speed, said forme cylinder associated with said one transfer cylinder simultaneously having a set-up speed which forme cylinder set-up rotational speed is different from said production rotational speed and from said zero rotational speed, said forme cylinder and said transfer cylinder in each said cylinder pair each being simultaneously operable at a respective one of said speeds independently.