Heidelberger Druckmaschinen

About: Heidelberger Druckmaschinen is a company organization based out in Heidelberg, Germany. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Offset printing & Cylinder. The organization has 3350 authors who have published 5978 publications receiving 27694 citations. The organization is also known as: Heidelberg Printing Machines AG.

Gathering stapler with separate drives and method of operating the gathering stapler

Abstract: The gathering stapler has a number of individual subassemblies, including a stapling carriage, a collecting chain, a stapling-displacement configuration, a delivery, and an ejector. Each of these subassemblies has a dedicated drive. Controllable motors are provided as the power sources. It is thus possible to synchronize the movements of the respective subassemblies and to alter the speeds of the movement during a machine cycle. In particular, synchronization of the movement of the simultaneous operation of the stapling carriage, of the stapling-displacement configuration and of the collecting chain is carried out such that for individually adjacent cycles, at different points in time, the product and stapling carriage have adapted speed profiles. As a result, it is possible to carry out a stapling operation at different positions on the product.

Ink jet spray method, and ink jet spray device

Abstract: The invention relates to an ink jet spray method in which ink, or the like (printing ink) which is located in a nozzle chamber is sprayed out by means of an actuation element, which changes the volume of the nozzle chamber, in order to produce a printed image/colour image. There is provision for at least two actuators (11, 12, 15) to be used as actuation element (10), the actuation of which actuators (11, 12, 15) can be varied in a selectable way so as to be synchronous or with an adjustably presettable time offset/phase offset/phase position.

Automated job creation for job preparation

Abstract: A system and method are disclosed for providing production printing instructions for a printed end document to a job preparation station. The printed end document is made up of a plurality of other documents received from the customer which are to be inserted in a predefined order and in a predefined format. The job submission station includes a computer and a receiver which receives the plurality of documents in electronic format. An input device, such as a keyboard or a mouse, is used to provide the job submission station operator with the ability to provide input instructions to the computer. The operator uses the input device to arrange all of the documents into an electronic folder, such as a directory, and to arrange the documents in the order in which the documents are to be printed to compose the end document. The computer is programmed to automatically convert the document into a ready for printer format file and merged the plurality of documents together to create a single document. The computer also generates an electronic job ticket that provides global attributes for the printed end product.

System and method for visual representation of pages in a production printing workflow

Abstract: A system and method for managing production printing workflow is disclosed. The system includes workflow management software which manages and facilitates the procedural stages of the workflow including job origination, job preparation, job submission and job fulfillment. The workflow management software provides an integrated object oriented interface which visually reflects and interacts with the workflow. The software further provides functionality for efficient page level modifications to documents at the job preparation stage. This functionality allows such modifications to be easily made to selected pages and visually verified by displaying visual representations of the modifications on visual representations of the pages. In particular, the insertion and attributes of ordered media, such as tab separator pages, is visually represented. This allows an operator to visually verify ordered media ordering and placement and coordinate with the production output device to properly insert and efficiently utilize the ordered media.