Patent ID: 8001892

Claim:
A printing press system comprising: a first printing press ( 01 ) having a first machinery alignment (M 1 ) and including at least two first printing units ( 02 ), each of said at least two first printing units being embodied as a printing tower ( 02 ) with each said printing tower having several first printing groups arranged vertically on top of each other and each being adapted for multi-color printing, on both sides of a separate first web passing through each of said at least two first printing units, each of said at least two first printing units having first printing group cylinders, said at least a first printing units being spaced from each other along said first machine alignment; a first former assembly in said first printing press and arranged in said first machinery alignment (M 1 ) of said at least two first printing units ( 02 ); a second printing press ( 31 ) having at least one second printing unit ( 03 ) and a second machine alignment (M 2 ), said at least one second printing unit ( 03 ) having at least one second printing group with second printing group cylinders adapted to print on a second web; a second former assembly in said second printing press and arranged in said second machinery alignment (M 2 ) of said at least one second printing unit ( 03 ), said first former assembly and said second former assembly being different from each other in at least one of a number of fold formers arranged side by side in a machine plane of each of said first and second former assemblies and an effective width of at least one of a fold former and a plurality of fold formers in each of said first and second former assemblies; an orientation of said first and second printing presses wherein said first and second printing group cylinders ( 04 ; 06 ; 14 ; 16 ) of the first and second printing unit ( 02 ; 03 ) are oriented essentially orthogonally to one another in terms of their axial direction, and, the first and second former assemblies ( 07 ; 17 ) are orthogonal to one another with regard to a direction of web transport (T 1 ; T 1 , T 2 ), projected into the horizontal plane, of a web ( 11 ; 21 ) running up to each of said first and second former assemblies, and wherein one of a web ( 21 ; 11 ) and a partial web that has been printed by a printing unit ( 31 ; 01 ) of the one of the first and second printing presses ( 31 ; 01 ) can selectively be one of fed to the former assembly ( 17 ; 07 ) that is arranged in the machine alignment (M 2 ; M 1 ) of said one of said first and second printing presses ( 31 ; 01 ), and can be turned 90° and fed to the former assembly ( 07 ; 17 ) that is arranged in the machine alignment (Ml; M 2 ) of the other of said first and second two printing presses ( 01 ; 31 ).