Patent ID: 8004706

Claim:
A device to produce a printed image at least at several individual printing image locations comprising: a printing press having at least the several individual printing image locations; at least one illustrating device, the at least one illustrating device being usable to form at least one individual printed image at each of the several individual printing image locations of the printing press, the at least several individual printed images each formed at one of the several individual printing image locations being part of a resultant page of a printed product to be produced by the printing press; a data set containing image data of the at least several individual printed images of the resultant page of the printed product, the data set being in existence prior to the formation of the several individual printed images, and wherein the data set contains image data of all of the several individual printed images of the resultant page of the printed product; a raster image processor assigned to each of the several individual printing image locations, each such raster image processor being usable to convert image data in the data set add which corresponds to one of the several individual printed images of the resultant page of the printed product, and which is assigned to the respective printing image location, into raster data; a network for electronic communication of at least the data set that contains the image data; and a separate interface usable to connect each raster image processor to the network, which separate interface receives the data set containing the image data sent through the network, which network makes the data set containing the image data of all of the at least several individual printed images of the resultant page of the printed product available at the separate interface for each raster image processor.