Patent ID: 6945923

Claim:
A method of producing a newspaper having at least two sections, each section being formed from at least two centrally folded printed sheets, the method comprising: a) printing sheets which form a copy of the sections of the newspaper sequentially one after the other by using a digital printing machine, each of the sheets bears a different printing; b) feeding the sheets, that belong to a first one of said sections of the newspaper, continuously one by one to a first collecting station; c) positioning the sheets, that belong to said first section of the newspaper, one above the other to form a first sheet stack; d) conveying away the first sheet stack from the first collecting station; e) folding the first sheet stack in order to produce the first section; f) depositing the folded first section on a second collecting station; g) feeding the sheets, that belong to a second one of said sections of the newspaper, continuously one by one to the first collecting station, the first sheet of the second section being fed to the first collection station after the preceding sheet stack has been conveyed away from the first collection station; h) positioning the sheets, that belong to said second section of the newspaper, one above the other to form a second sheet stack; i) conveying away the second sheet stack from the first collecting station; k) folding the second sheet sack in order to produce the second section; l) depositing the folded second section on the second collecting station such that it comes to rest on the already deposited first section; and m) repeating steps g) to l) until all the sections of the newspaper have been completed and positioned one upon the other to form a section stack, wherein the section stack is folded in the center to form a newspaper consisting of at least two folded sections.