Printing presses and printing machines, and parts thereof namely, web-fed and sheet-fed printing presses for letterpress, planographic and gravure printing, sleeve-shaped and solid cylindrical printing forms and printing-image transfer carriers, mechanical changing apparatus, namely, printing form makeready and mounting mechanics for sleeve-shaped and film-shaped printing forms and printed-image retouching carriers as parts of printing presses, image-setting apparatuses, namely, imaging heads for printing forms, surface conditioning devices for printing form and printed-image transfer carrier, namely, cleaning, image-deleting, washing, heating, drying and cooling apparatuses, namely, wash basins, wash troughs, heating elements, heating boxes, radiators, air dryers, heat dryers, chill rolls, chilling towers, chilling aggregates, as parts of printing presses

Electric and electronic control, regulating, switching, monitoring, display and information inputting and outputting units, namely, printing machine sensor circuits, computer-based and electronic printing machine operating circuits, display and information imputing and outputting units, namely, monitors, displays, man-machine interfaces, ink regulating instruments, namely, electronic and computer based operating circuits for inking attachments, ink fountains, ink distributors, computer software for operating, controlling and monitoring printing machines and for outputting and displaying printing machine operating parameters integrated in printing presses; gauging, weighing and measuring apparatuses and instruments, namely, printing machine gauging, weighing and measuring sensor circuits, photographic, film and optical apparatuses and instruments and units for recording, transmitting and reproducing images, namely, imaging head optics and electronic memories and circuits for imaging heads, signaling and control apparatuses and instruments, namely, computer based or electronic signal transmission control circuits for printing machines; process computers as accessories of printing machines, and computer operating programs therefor; electric monitoring apparatuses, namely, optical or electrical sensor circuits for print-quality control; computers and software running thereon for controlling the sleeve-shaped and solid cylindrical printing forms and printing-image transfer carriers, the mechanical changing apparatus for sleeve-shaped and film-shaped printing forms and printed-image retouching carriers as parts of printing presses, the image-setting apparatus for printing forms, the surface conditioning devices with regard to printing form and printed-image transfer carrier, namely, cleaning, image-deleting, washing, heating, drying and cooling apparatuses as parts of printing presses; computers and software for evaluating the data for controlling the printing forms

Material processing, namely, application of protective coating of surfaces in conjunction with the production of printing forms; custom manufacture of printing forms through material transfer and thermal transfer processes, material ablation and ablation processes