A system and method for polishing an optical fiber with a polishing lap. The system and method generate digital images of printed documents that do not have test pattern data within them. At least one of subsystems is automated. Therefore, each cantilever structure maximizes the supporting effect and provides a dispersive supporting type structure. An information requesting system transmits a request command that requests a device to return the device information when the number of jobs in the data queue is equal to or less than a predetermined value. In order to create advantageous structural conditions it is proposed that the running surface of the bearing layer applied to the bearing bore has a contour with respect to spacing matching the contour of the bearing bore in the form of grooved recesses distributed over the axial length and running in a peripheral direction.