Patent ID: 7631857

Claim:
A method for producing newspapers which comprise at least one section which is formed from a number of folded printed sheets located inside one another, the method comprising the steps of: printing in a digital printing system, on both sides of a material web, successive regions of the material web, of which each region corresponds to at least one sheet of a section, information belonging to the corresponding at least one sheet, and processing the printed material web in a further processing system, the processing comprising: determining if a step of longitudinally cutting the material web is required based on the type of production, format, and/or composition of a newspaper to be printed, when it is determined that the step of longitudinally cutting the material web is required, longitudinally cutting the material web in a longitudinal cutting station in which the material web is cut in its longitudinal direction, crosscutting the material web in a crosscutting station in which the material web is cut transversely with respect to its longitudinal direction, collecting the sheets in a first collecting station in which, for each section, sheets of the section are placed on one another, determining if a step of crossfolding the sheets is required based on the type of production, format, and/or composition of the newspaper to be printed, when it is determined that the step of crossfolding the sheets is required, crossfolding the sheets in a crossfolding station in which, for each section, the collected sheets of the section are folded transversely with respect to a direction of movement of the sheets, determining if a step of longitudinally folding the sheets is required based on the type of production, format, and/or composition of the newspaper to be printed, when it is determined that the step of longitudinally folding the sheets is required, longitudinally folding the sheets in a longitudinal folding station in which, for each section, the collected sheets of the section are folded in the direction of movement of the sheets, determining if a step of collecting the sheets in a second collecting station is required based on the type of production, format, and/or composition of the newspaper to be printed, when it is determined that the step of collecting the sheets in a second collecting station is required, collecting the sheets in the second collecting station in which a number of sections, each formed of folded sheets, are inserted into one another to produce a finished newspaper, and delivering the finished newspaper by a delivery station, wherein, from case to case, the step of longitudinally cutting the material web in the longitudinal cutting station and/or the step of crossfolding the collected sheets in the crossfolding station and/or the step of longitudinally folding the collected sheets in the longitudinal folding station and/or the step of collecting the sheets in the second collecting station are omitted, based on the type of production, format, and/or composition of the newspaper to be printed.