the printing form cylinders 4 5 the printing form cylinders 12 are inked by the ink applicator rolls 16 an ink applicator roll 16 in each case inking a printing film 12 in that during one revolution of a printing form cylinder 4 5 it is thrown cyclically onto the relevant printing film 12 and lifted off again during printing the transfer cylinders 2 3 and the printing form cylinders 4 5 rotate synchronously and continuously with an approximately equal circumferential speed ink being transferred from the printing films 12 to the covers 11 fig2 1 shows the satellite offset press at a machine angle of 0 degrees a sheet 9 has been transferred into the gripper system of the segment e of the impression cylinder 1 the impression cylinder 1 has the same circumferential speed as the adjacent transfer cylinders 2 3 when the impression cylinder 1 the transfer cylinders 2 3 and the printing form cylinders 4 5 rotate synchronously onward then the sheet is printed with the color black the segments a e of the transfer cylinder 2 and of the impression cylinder 1 roll on one another which is shown at a machine angle of 90 degrees in fig2 2 in fig2 3 at a machine angle of 180 degrees it is shown that a second sheet 9 has been transferred into the gripper system 8 of the segment f of the impression cylinder 1 during synchronous onward rotation of the impression cylinder 1 and of the adjacent transfer cylinders 2 3 as shown in fig2 4 at a machine angle of 270 degrees the second partial image is printed on the sheet 9 in the color cyan on the second segment e and.