MACHINE ROTATIVE A IMPRIMER DES FEUILLES

Rotary printing press for two-sided printing of sheets having a first and a second printing unit, respectively including an impression cylinder, the press including a sheet feeder having a device for separating sheets singly from a feeder pile and a device for feeding the singly separated sheets to the first printing unit for printing one of the sides of the respective sheets and to the second printing unit for printing the other of the sides of the respective sheets, a delivery system having a device for conveying and depositing the sheets on at least one delivery pile and including a disconnectable delivery, a control device for controlling operational sequences performed in the rotary printing press, the first and second printing units being satellite printing units disposed as mirror images in tandem horizontally and, respectively, having a plurality of printing devices arranged around each of the respective impression cylinders thereof, the sheet feeder and the disconnectable delivery being assigned to the first printing unit and being disposed between the first and the second printing units, stationary sub-units assigned to the first printing unit, the device for feeding the singly separated sheets to the second printing unit being connectable to the disconnectable delivery.