A device for producing flexographic printing plates starting from digitally imagable flexographic printing elements comprising at least one dimensionally stable support sheet, a photopolymerizable, relief-forming layer, and a digitally imaged layer, comprising at least • an exposure unit for the preliminary exposure of the flexographic printing elements from the reverse by means of UV radiation, • an exposure unit for the main exposure of the flexographic printing elements by means of UV radiation through the digitally imaged layer, • a washout unit for removing the residues of the digitally imaged layer and also the unpolymerized fractions of the relief-forming layer, using washout media, • a drying unit for drying the washed out flexographic printing plates, • an aftertreatment unit for aftertreating the dried flexographic printing plates with UVA and/or UVC light, • a storage unit for accommodating the completed flexographic printing plates, • a control unit for control in the device, characterized in that the device comprises at least two different transport devices for transporting the flexographic printing elements and flexographic printing plates, respectively, through the system, where one of the devices is a continuously operating transport device set up so as to transport flexographic printing elements through the exposure units and and also the washout unit, and where a) the device comprises, as well as the continuous transport unit, a second, discontinuously operating transport device (T2, T3), the flexographic printing plates being transported by the second, discontinuously operating transport device (T2, T3) into the drying unit, into the aftertreatment unit, and also the storage unit, or b) the device comprises, as well as the continuous transport unit, a second, discontinuously operating transport device and a third, discontinuously operating transport device, the flexographic printing plates being transported by the second, discontinuously operating transport device into the drying unit and by the third, discontinuously operating transport device into the aftertreatment unit and also the storage unit. • an exposure unit for the preliminary exposure of the flexographic printing elements from the reverse by means of UV radiation, • an exposure unit for the main exposure of the flexographic printing elements by means of UV radiation through the digitally imaged layer, • a washout unit for removing the residues of the digitally imaged layer and also the unpolymerized fractions of the relief-forming layer, using washout media, • a drying unit for drying the washed out flexographic printing plates, • an aftertreatment unit for aftertreating the dried flexographic printing plates with UVA and/or UVC light, • a storage unit for accommodating the completed flexographic printing plates, • a control unit for control in the device, a) the device comprises, as well as the continuous transport unit, a second, discontinuously operating transport device (T2, T3), the flexographic printing plates being transported by the second, discontinuously operating transport device (T2, T3) into the drying unit, into the aftertreatment unit, and also the storage unit, or b) the device comprises, as well as the continuous transport unit, a second, discontinuously operating transport device and a third, discontinuously operating transport device, the flexographic printing plates being transported by the second, discontinuously operating transport device into the drying unit and by the third, discontinuously operating transport device into the aftertreatment unit and also the storage unit.