Claims
- 1. A method for regulating inking during printing operations of a printing press, which comprises:
- providing at least one picture taking device, a closed-loop control device, and at least one printed product having at least one surface with a printed image;
- printing a print control strip on the at least one surface next to the printed image;
- deriving first picture signals from the print control strip and deriving second picture signals from the printed image of the at least one printed product with the at least one picture taking device;
- during a printer tuning phase, using the closed-loop control device for deriving actual values representing inking of the print control strip from the first picture signals and comparing the actual values to predetermined desired values for deriving resultant comparison values;
- determining ink adjusting signals for controlling ink distribution devices from the resultant comparison values for varying inking of the at least one print product until a desired value is reached during the printer tuning phase;
- generating an OK signal when the desired value is reached for indicating a switchover to a production run phase;
- using last derived actual values determined in the printer tuning phase as values for the further desired values in the production run phase; using the closed-loop control device for deriving further actual values representing inking of the printed image from the second picture signals and comparing the further actual values to further desired values for creating further resultant comparison values; and
- determining further ink adjusting signals for controlling the ink distribution devices from the further resultant comparison values for varying inking of the at least one printed product.
- 2. The method according to claim 1, which comprises placing the at least one picture taking device inside a printing press for obtaining the first and second picture signals from an entire surface of the at least one printed product.
- 3. The method according to claim 1, which comprises terminating the printer tuning phase upon receiving end tuning phase instructions initiated by a printing press operator.
Priority Claims (1)
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CROSS REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATION
This application is a divisional of copending U.S. application Ser. No. 08/571,858 filed Apr. 29, 1996, which has issued but has not yet been assigned a patent number, which is a 371 of PCT/EP94/0278 filed Jun. 27, 1994.
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