Patent ID: 8651161

Claim:
A sheet-fed offset printing press comprising: printing means for printing on sheets; laminate means for applying lamination to the sheets printed by the printing means, the laminate means being provided downstream of the printing means in a transport direction of the sheets, wherein the laminate means laminates the sheets caused to overlap each other by the overlap means, with a web-like film; overlap means provided between the printing means and the laminate means, and for feeding, to the laminate means, the sheets printed by the printing means, after causing a transport-direction trailing end side of the preceding sheet and a transport-direction leading end side of the subsequent sheet to overlap each other, wherein the overlap means causes the transport-direction trailing end side of the preceding sheet and the transport-direction leading end side of the subsequent sheet to overlap each other by making a relative difference between transport speeds of the preceding sheet and the subsequent sheet; and cutting means for cutting the film, with which the sheets are laminated, for each of the sheets, the cutting means provided downstream of the laminate means in the transport direction of the sheets.