Printing machine as well as methods of operation thereof

The document relates to a printing machine and a method for operating the same. The printing machine with at least one dryer (5a, b) provided for drying the printing material being printed (2). Here is believed to be novel and inventive, - that the dryer (5a, b) contains at least one guide element (12) on which (12) the printing material (2) is guided past and that the at least one guide element (12) contains at least a surface which in a relative velocity to the print substrate (2) is displaceable -.