Method for producing individually assembled printed products

Abstract

A method for producing individually assembled printed products includes supplying from a production line at least one envelope product with an individual, optically detectable marking affixed thereto. A regionally oriented supplement and/or a target-group specific supplement is supplied from at least one other production. The envelope products and the supplements are assemble by combining in a first autonomously operating assembling device the envelope product with the regionally oriented supplement to form a first printed product and combining in a second autonomously operating assembling device the envelope product with the target-group specific supplement to form a second printed product, or inserting continuously or intermittingly in the first autonomously operating assembling device the target-group specific product into the first printed product, or inserting in a downstream direction of the first autonomously operating assembling device the target-group specific supplement into the first printed product.

1 . A method for producing individually assembled printed products, comprising:
 supplying from a production line at least one envelope product with an individual, optically detectable marking affixed thereto;   supplying from at least one other production line at least one of, respectively, a regionally oriented supplement and a target-group specific supplement; and   assembling the envelope products and the supplements by at least one of:
 combining in a first autonomously operating assembling device the envelope product with the regionally oriented supplement to form a first printed product, and 
 combining in a second autonomously operating assembling device the envelope product with the target-group specific supplement to form a second printed product, or inserting continuously or intermittingly in the first autonomously operating assembling device the target-group specific product into the first printed product, or inserting in a downstream direction of the first autonomously operating assembling device the target-group specific supplement into the first printed product. 
   
     
     
         2 . The method according to  claim 1 , further comprising:
 controlling with a control unit the supplying and assembling steps; and   controlling with the control unit movement of precisely called up supplement combinations relative to supplied envelope products to stacking machines.   
     
     
         3 . The method according to  claim 2 , further comprising utilizing the control unit to make available the target-group specific or the regionally oriented supplements, and transferring individual copies continuously or intermittently to the stacking machine for further processing into packages. 
     
     
         4 . The method according to  claim 1 , wherein the envelope product is supplied as a main product, a cover or a weekly paper. 
     
     
         5 . The method according to  claim 2 , further comprising producing the supplements according to precise specifications and supplying the supplements to stacking machines with the aid of the control unit. 
     
     
         6 . An apparatus to produce individually assembled printed products including at least one envelope product and at least one supplement, comprising:
 a first device to supply at least one envelope product with at least one external, optically detectable marking that matches a specific addressee; and   at least one assembling device to integrate the supplied envelope product and at least one supplement in a clocked operation into regionally oriented and/or target-group specific printed products.   
     
     
         7 . The apparatus according to  claim 6 , wherein the first device is a mechanical device that withdraws differently marked envelope products without empty cycles between two envelope products and which forms one line of the apparatus, the apparatus further comprising at least one other line comprising a further mechanical device to supply a supplement, wherein at least two lines are formed by the first and the at least one further mechanical device, wherein the at least two lines converge toward each other in the assembling device in which the target-group specific and/or the regionally oriented integration of the respective envelope product with the corresponding supplement combination takes place. 
     
     
         8 . The apparatus according to  claim 6 , wherein the at least one assembling device comprises respectively one assembling device for regionalized printed products and one assembling device for target-group specific printed products. 
     
     
         9 . The apparatus according to  claim 6 , wherein the envelope product includes one predetermined identifying marking, respectively, for incorporating the regionally oriented supplement. 
     
     
         10 . The apparatus according to  claim 6 , wherein the envelope product includes one predetermined identifying marking, respectively, for incorporating the target-group specific supplement.