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(11) EP 0 214 804 A3

(12) EUROPEAN PATENT APPLICATION

(88) Date of publication A3:
01.06.1988 Bulletin 1988/22

(43) Date of publication A2:
18.03.1987 Bulletin 1987/12

(21) Application number: 86306565

(22) Date of filing: 26.08.1986
(84) Designated Contracting States:
AT BE CH DE FR GB IT LI LU NL SE

(30) Priority: 03.09.1985 GB 8521879

(71) Applicant: INOTECH SYSTEMS LIMITED
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(72) Inventors:
  • Brooker, Reginald Douglas
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  • Wilkins, David Roy George
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  • Weaver, Stuart
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(54) A continuous stationery print control system


(57) A continuous sheet of stationery is fed between an impression cylinder (1) and a print control cycliner (2) by pin feed tractors (4 and 5) and of a printing machine. Printing is continuous and cyclic and, at the end of each cycle, control circuitry including control logic (8) and fine and course positional encoders (15) and is employed to determine any sheet overrun and to reposition the sheet in the correct position through the tractors (4 and 5) ready for the next cycle.






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