To improve a method for coating a sheet with a film in a printing machine and avoid drawbacks of the background art.

The method includes, in a first step, creating a film 8 in a liquid state on a first cylinder 2, in a second step, pressing a foil web 9 onto the film 8, thus forming a surface of the film 8, and simultaneously curing the film 8 by irradiation and, in a third step, making the film 8 in a cured state transferred to a sheet 10 from the first cylinder 2, during the process of which the sheet 10 is transported with a second cylinder 1.