Patent ID: 6935234

Claim:
A lithographic newspaper printing press with a least one printing unit, the printing press printing a newspaper page, the printing unit comprising: a housing having a first side wall and a second side wall; a first and a second plate cylinder each being rotatably mounted in the housing, the plate cylinders having a length being substantially four times the width of a flexible printing plate sized to carry a single newspaper page and having a circumference being substantially equal to the height of the flexible printing plate, wherein each of the first and second plate cylinders carries four of the flexible print plates, the flexible printing plates being wrapped around the cylinders and being held by a plate lock-up mechanism, and wherein the flexible printing plates are mounted on the first and second plate cylinders side by side; a first and a second blanket cylinder associated with the first and second plate cylinders, each of the first and second blanket cylinders having substantially the same diameter as the associated plate cylinder; an axially removable continuous blanket sleeve mounted on each of the first and second blanket cylinders, each of the first and second blanket cylinders being cantilevered in the first side wall of the housing, when removing the continuous blanket sleeves from the first and second blanket cylinders; wherein the length to diameter ratio of the first and second plate cylinders is in the range between 5.8:1 and 9:1 and a width of said removable continuous blanket sleeve corresponding to at least that of the flexible printing plates mounted side-by side.