Patent ID: 8561539

Claim:
A method for regulating a web tension and/or a register of a processing machine used to process a material web ( 101 ), comprising the following steps: processing the material web ( 101 ) in at least one processing unit ( 111 - 114 , 121 - 124 , 131 - 134 ); changing an elasticity modulus of a material comprising the material web ( 101 ) by adding moisture to the material comprising the material web, by removing moisture from the material comprising the material web ( 101 ), or by both adding and removing moisture from the material comprising the material web; providing a controller ( 10 ) for register regulation, web tension regulation, or both, taking into account moisture control of the material web wherein said controller ( 10 ) includes at least one input for receiving quantities that represent the addition of moisture, the removal of moisture or both, and further includes an outlet for outputting different control parameters based on different quantities of moisture; adjusting the controller based on the quantities that represent the amount of moisture added to the material comprising the material web ( 101 ), the amount of moisture removed from the material comprising the material web ( 101 ), or both the amount of moisture added and the amount of moisture removed from the material comprising the material web ( 101 ), wherein the processing machine is a printing press ( 100 ), and a quantity of fluid to be applied by a printing unit ( 111 - 114 ) is used as the quantity that represents the addition of moisture to the material of the material web ( 101 ), and wherein the processing machine is a printing press ( 100 ), and wherein the variable that represents removal of moisture from the material comprising the material web ( 101 ) is selected from the group consisting of a temperature, heat output or radiation output of a drying unit ( 121 - 124 ), a drying time, a temperature or cooling output of a cooling unit ( 131 - 134 ), and a cooling time.