Patent ID: 8910573

Claim:
A method for controlling an inking unit of a printing press having at least one ink metering element and a control unit, the method comprising the following steps: resetting the ink metering element from a first metered quantity of ink to a second metered quantity of ink for an intended level of inking to be achieved; setting the ink metering element to a temporary, third metered quantity of ink by the control unit, at least for one time interval, during a non-steady phase of the inking unit before reaching the intended level of inking; determining a value of a variable describing a measure of a distance of a present level of inking to the intended level of inking on a printing material and predefining a plurality of sets of values for the variable, into which the determined value of the variable can be grouped; and carrying out a temporary metering of the quantity of ink: at a first rate and/or during a first time period if the value of the variable lies in a first set of values covering states at a relatively large distance from the intended level of inking, and at a second rate, being different from the first rate, and/or in a second time period, being different from the first time period, if the value of the variable lies in a second set of values, being different from the first set of values and covering states at a relatively small distance from the intended level of inking, at least one of the first rate or the second rate being constant.