Simplified inking unit

摘要

A simplified inking unit for use with a web-fed rotary printing machine is disclosed. A plate cylinder and inking roller, which uses thinly liquid ink, rotate at the same peripheral speed and have the same diameters. A screened ink metering cylinder and cooperating ink fountain roller have diameters smaller than those of the plate cylinder and inking roller and rotate at lesser peripheral speeds than the inking roller. These two smaller rollers also rotate at different speeds with respect to each other with the ink fountain roller having the slowest rotational speed.