Safety of machinery. Safety requirements for the design and construction of printing and paper converting machines - Common requirements
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1 Scope
1.1 This document applies to:
— printing machines for printing on paper and similar materials, including screen printing
presses; equipment used in the preparation of the printing process and additional
equipment on printing machines are also considered to be printing machines. This standard
also covers machinery used for the handling of paper, products, printing formes and
inks (before and after the printing process) as well as machinery for cleaning printing
formes and checking the print quality (auxiliary printing machinery).
— paper converting machines, i. e. machines to process, convert or finish paper, board
and similar materials which are processed, converted or finished in a similar manner.
NOTE Similar substrates are, for example, board, corrugated board, plastic film, aluminium
foil, sheet metal and photographic paper.