Patent ID: 8418613

Claim:
A method of assembling a print unit of a printing machine, wherein the print unit comprises a frame, an empty volume being provided in the center of the frame, a print carriage having a printing cylinder and configured to be inserted into and to be attached to said frame, and a doctor blade system, independent of said print carriage and configured to be attached to said frame, the method comprising the steps of: placing said doctor blade system on an empty transport device, inserting said transport device with said doctor blade system transversely relative to said frame and into said empty volume of said frame, attaching said doctor blade system to said frame, removing said empty transport device transversely relative to said frame and from said empty volume of said frame while said doctor blade system remains in and attached to said frame, inserting said print carriage transversely relative to said frame and into said empty volume of said frame, and attaching said print carriage to said frame.