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A sheet-fed rotary printing press with a convertible mechanism includes a convertible cylinder, a plurality of gripper units, a plurality of holding members, a convey mechanism, and a pair of paper guide members. The convertible cylinder conveys a sheet. The gripper units are arranged on an outer surface of the convertible cylinder and lined up in an axial direction of the convertible cylinder, and grip the sheet. The holding members are arranged on the outer surface of the convertible cylinder to be adjacent to the gripper units, and lined up in the axial direction of the convertible cylinder to be phase-shifted from the gripper units. In single-sided printing, the convey mechanism conveys the sheet fed from an upstream convey cylinder by gripping its leading edge upon opening/closing operation of the gripper units. In double-sided printing, the convey mechanism holds a trailing edge of the sheet, fed from the upstream convey cylinder, with the holding members and thereafter gripping-changes the sheet to the gripping units. The pair of paper guide members are arranged at at least one of a position between the holding members and an outermost position outside the second gripper units, and guide two sides of the sheet conveyed by the holding members to corresponding ones of the gripper units.
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