Patent ID: 7963226

Claim:
A method for operating a printing press comprising: providing a nine-cylinder satellite printing unit having four printing couples, each with a plate cylinder: providing each of the four plate cylinders with a position-controlled drive motor so as to be positively driven; supporting a first plate cylinder of a first lower printing couple for rotation in a production direction and in a plate mounting direction; supporting a second plate cylinder of a second lower printing couple for rotation in a production direction and in a plate mounting direction; providing at least one printing plate having at least one print image thereon and adapted to be mounted on each of said first and second plate cylinders; providing at least one axially extending printing plate end receiving groove in each of said first and second plate cylinders; providing each of said at least one printing plate to be mounted on each of said first and second plate cylinders with an angled first end which, in said production direction of rotation of each of said first and second plate cylinders, is a leading end; providing each said at least one printing plate to be mounted on each of said first and second plate cylinders with an angled second end which, in said production direction of rotation of each of said first and second plate cylinders, is a trailing end; fastening said second, trailing end of said at least one printing plate in said printing plate end receiving groove of said first plate cylinder, while rotating said first plate cylinder in said plate mounting direction and selecting said plate mounting direction to be opposite of said production direction of said first plate cylinder; fastening said first, leading end of said at least one printing plate in said printing plate end receiving groove of said first plate cylinder while rotating said first plate cylinder in said mounting direction; fastening said first, leading end and said second, trailing end of said at least one printing plate in said printing plate end receiving groove of said second plate cylinder, while rotating said second plate cylinder in said mounting direction and selecting said plate mounting direction of said second plate cylinder to be the same as said production direction of said second plate cylinder; and subsequently rotating said first and second plate cylinders in said production direction to carry out printing operations.