Patent ID: 8230787

Claim:
A method for adjusting an area ink coverage, produced using a volume of an ink transferred to a print substrate by an inking unit of a printing press and having at least one ink forme roller including: reaching a final phase of a first printing process carried out by the printing press; at least one of disengaging and interrupting an ink feed to the inking unit in at least one of several zones in the inking unit; selecting a target value for the area ink coverage as being equal to an area ink coverage for the same ink and predefined for a pre-print run of a second printing process; continuing to transfer a volume of ink remaining on the print substrate side of the inking unit after the one of disengagement and interruption of the ink feed in the inking unit in the final phase of the first printing process being executed in the printing press until the area ink coverage produced with the volume of ink transferred to the print substrate ( 02 ) equals the target value for the area ink coverage; providing an automatically running control process; changing over the printing press from the first printing process running in said printing press to the second printing process using the control process that runs automatically; transferring the same ink from the inking unit to the print substrate in the second printing process as in the first printing process; and carrying out the changing over of the printing process using the control process and reaching the predefined target value for the area ink coverage predefined for the pre-print run of the second printing process.