Patent ID: 7493855

Claim:
A processing device of a web-fed printing press comprising: at least first and second unreeling devices adapted to unwind previously imprinted, and rewound at least first and second webs of material; a separate position-controlled electric drive mechanism for each of said at least first and second unreeling device a control device adapted to control each said separate position-controlled electric drive mechanism for each of said at least first and second unreeling devices to maintain registration of said at least first and second, previously imprinted and rewound webs of material as said at least first and second previously imprinted and rewound webs of material are unwound by said at least first and second unreeling devices; a draw-in unit arranged downstream, in a direction of web travel, of each of said at least first and second unreeling devices; a longitudinal web cutting device arranged directly after each said draw-in unit in said direction of web travel and usable to selectively cut each of said at least first and second webs of material into partial webs; a turning bar arrangement located after each said longitudinal web cutting device and adapted to mix said partial webs; and at least one former, at least one transverse cutting device and at least one transverse folder after each said turning bar arrangement and each adapted to produce a printed product put together from said registered, previously imprinted and rewound webs of material which have been unwound from said at least first and second unreeling devices by said separate position-controlled electric drive mechanisms for each of said at least first and second unreeling devices and selectively cut into said partial webs.