INTAGLIO PRINTING UNIT FOR PRINTING SUBSTRATE USING AN INTAGLIO PRINTING METHOD

• Main Authors: SOKOL, Ralf, SCHAEDE, Johannes, WÜRSCH, Alain, CHASSOT, Daniel, DIMITRIJEVIC, Ana
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French; German
• Published: 15.03.2023
• Subjects: LINING MACHINES; MATERIALS FOR SURFACES USED IN PRINTING MACHINES FOR PRINTING,INKING, DAMPING, OR THE LIKE; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; PREPARING SUCH SURFACES FOR USE AND CONSERVING THEM; PRINTING; PRINTING MACHINES OR PRESSES; PRINTING PLATES OR FOILS; STAMPS; TRANSPORTING; TYPEWRITERS

A gravure printing unit is usable for printing onto substrate according to a gravure printing method. The gravure printing unit has a forme cylinder, which comprises, on its circumference, an image-forming pattern of recesses, and has an inking unit for inking the pattern of recesses provided on the forme cylinder. The inking unit comprises a first inking unit cylinder, which comprises recesses in a region of its outer cylindrical surface that correspond to the recesses on the forme cylinder, and which form a nip point downstream with a second inking unit cylinder, which comprises, on its circumference, ink-transferring elevations or raised areas. The recesses are formed on the outer cylindrical surface of an ink transfer forme sheath. The first inking unit comprises a cylinder body which is or which can be mounted rotatably in the inking unit and on which a circumferentially closed ink transfer forme sheath, that carries the recesses of the first inking unit cylinder on its outwardly facing surface, is or can be detachably arranged. A printing press has such a gravure inking unit. A setting up method, an ink transfer forme sheath, and a method for producing the same are also disclosed.