Patent ID: 8662810

Claim:
A method for manufacturing adhesively bound printed products formed of a book block and a cover, comprising the steps of: initially conducting the book blocks in one of several circulating clamps of an adhesive binding device past processing stations of the adhesive binding device for processing and application of glue to backs of the book blocks; supplying a cover in a synchronously timed and controlled manner by a cover station to the back to which glue has been applied; and, after merging the cover with the book block, carrying out a measuring process for detecting a mutual actual position of the cover relative to the book block, wherein the cover station includes a drive member which feeds the cover to the book block, the measuring process including comparing the actual position of the cover relative to the book block to a predetermined desired position, in the case of deviations of the actual position from the desired position, determining a correction value for a specific pairing of the drive member transporting the detected cover and the clamp transporting the detected book block, storing the correction value, and, prior to a renewed occurrence of the specific pairing of drive member and clamp, carrying out a change of the position of the clamp and/or the drive member of this pairing corresponding to the correction value.