Patent ID: 7707934

Claim:
A web-fed rotary printing press adapted to print a newspaper and comprising: a printing unit; a forme cylinder in said printing unit, said forme cylinder having a circumferential shell surface with first and second shell surface ends, said forme cylinder further having a longitudinal axis and also having a forme cylinder circumferential centerline located equidistant from said first and second shell surface ends and being perpendicular to said forme cylinder longitudinal axis, said centerline dividing said shell surface into a first partial shell surface and a second partial shell surface, each of said first and second partial shell surfaces further having a partial shell surface center axis extending parallel to said centerline and equidistant from said centerline and the respective one of said first and second shell surface ends; at least one printing forme positionable on said circumferential shell surface of said forme cylinder; and print images of a plurality of printed newspaper pages, each said print image being of a defined newspaper page size format, said defined newspaper page size format being selectable from at least a first page format having a first page width and a second page format having a second page width less than said first page width, said print images being arranged side-by-side axially on said at least one printing forme positioned on said shell surface of said forme cylinder, said print images of said plurality of printed newspaper pages being arranged into first and second groups of print images, said first group of print images being located on said first partial shell surface of said forme cylinder, with respect to said forme cylinder circumferential center line, said second group of print images being located on said second partial shell surface of said forme cylinder, with respect to said forme cylinder circumferential centerline, each of said first and second groups of said print images including more than one of said print images, said print images in at least one of said first and second groups of print images being asymmetrically positioned on said at least one printing forme and within said at least one of said first and second groups of print images with respect to said center axis of said partial shell surface of said forme cylinder on which said one of said first and second groups of print images, which are arranged axially on said at least one printing forme positioned on said forme cylinder, is located when said defined newspaper page size format is said second page format having said second page width less than said first page width.