Patent ID: 7845276

Claim:
A printing press system comprising: a first printing press machine line having a plurality of coldset printing units arranged vertically in at least one coldset printing tower and adapted to print at least one first web, said first printing press machine line having a first printing press machine alignment, said at least one first web traveling in a direction of said first printing press machine alignment; a former structure located after said first printing press machine, in said direction of travel of said first web, and having at least one longitudinal fold former, said former structure being aligned with said first printing press machine alignment; a second printing press machine line having at least one heatset printing unit configured as a heatset printing tower and adapted to print at least one second web using UV-curable inks, said second printing press machine having a second printing press machine alignment; a vertical second web travel path of said second web being printed in said at least one heatset printing unit and extending from a bottom of said heatset printing unit to a top of said heatset printing unit; at least eight printing points in said at least one heatset printing unit, said at least eight printing points being arranged vertically in said at least one heatset printing unit along said vertical second web travel path from said bottom of said heatset printing unit to said top of said heatset printing unit, said at least eight printing points being operable to print said at least one second web with said UV-curable inks; a vertically oriented UV dryer placed directly on said top of said heatset printing unit and above an upper one of said at least eight printing points, said UV dryer having a UV ink printed second web inlet aligned, in said vertical second web travel path, directly above said upper one of said at least eight printing points and further having a UV ink printed second web outlet directly above, in said vertical second web travel path, said dryer inlet, said at least one second web exiting vertically from said UV dryer with said UV dryer having cured said second web printed using said UV-curable inks; and means to deflect said at least one vertically oriented second web from said vertical second web travel path, after said second web exits said outlet of said vertically oriented UV dryer of said second printing unit, into alignment with said at least one first web and to combine said at least one first web and said second web, traveling in said first printing press machine alignment, in said former structure.