Patent ID: 7513195

Claim:
A printing press comprising: at least one printing group having at least one printing cylinder with an effective printing surface width; at least one folding apparatus adapted to receive a printed web from said at least one printing group; a former in said at least one folding apparatus and having a former width greater than half of said effective printing surface width of said at least one printing cylinder, said former including a former nose; at least one turning and mixing stage, interposed, in a path of travel of the printed web from said at least one printing group, said at least one turning and mixing stage being positioned between said at least one printing group and said at least one folding apparatus, said path of travel of the printed web, when projected into a horizontal plane, having a bend in said turning and mixing stage; a first longitudinal web cuffing device at an input side of said turning and mixing stage and adapted to cut the printed web into first and second partial webs having first and second partial web widths different from each other; at least first and second shiftable turning bars in said at least one turning and mixing stage, each of said first and second partial webs being looped around a respective one of said at least first and second turning bars, means supporting each of said at least first and second turning bars for movement in said path of travel of the printed web to center each of said first and second partial webs of said first and second different partial web widths on said former nose; and a second longitudinal web culling device at an output side of said turning and mixing stage, said second longitudinal web cutting device being centered on said former nose.