Patent ID: 7963225

Claim:
A method for controlling a register in a printing press including: providing at least one printing unit in said printing press; providing at least two printing groups in said at least one printing unit; providing each of said at least two printing groups having a cylinder pair including at least one forme cylinder and at least one transfer cylinder; providing a processing station subsequent to said at least one printing unit, in a direction of web travel in said printing press and including a processing station cylinder enageable with the web; determining an amount of a register deviation of each said at least two printing groups relative to said processing station; forming a mean value from said register deviations of said at least two printing groups; determining a difference between said register deviation of said at least two printing groups and said mean value; adjusting a phase of said processing station in a circumferential direction in accordance with said mean value; dividing said difference between said register deviation and said mean value into at least first and second register deviation components; adjusting a phase of said one forme cylinder of said cylinder pair in a circumferential direction by a first forme cylinder phase circumferential amount for resister adjustment using said first register deviation component; adjusting a phase of said one transfer cylinder of said cylinder pair in circumferential direction by a first transfer cylinder phase circumferential amount for register adjustment using said second register deviation component; and providing both said first forme cylinder phase circumferential amount and said first transfer cylinder phase circumferential amount different from each other and both different from zero.