A method for producing a dental restoration, in which method a blank is made available which is made from ceramic, in particular glass ceramic, or glass and which has a predefined spatial dependency of the material property color and/or opacity in its volume, and the blank is pressed into a press chamber of a press muffle and, in this way, material of the blank is pressed, through a channel structure issuing from the press chamber, into a mold cavity corresponding to the dental restoration, wherein the channel structure and the spatial dependency of color and/or opacity in the blank are coordinated with each other, such that one of a plurality of possible distributions of color and/or opacity is obtained in the ceramic material of the dental restoration formed in the mold cavity, characterized in that the basic spatial dependency of color and/or opacity and/or of optical structural features in the blank is determined from a desired distribution of color and/or opacity and/or of optical structural features in the dental restoration to be produced, taking account of the flow paths in the channel structure, wherein this determination is carried out i) either by subjecting the desired distribution of color and/or opacity and of optical structural features in the dental restoration to be produced to a chronologically backwards simulation of the flow processes during the pressing of the material through the channel structure into the mold cavity, in order thereby to obtain, in the blank, the spatially dependency of color and/or opacity which, after the material being pressed into the mold cavity, provides there the desired distribution of color and/or opacity and/or of optical structural features, ii) or by subjecting a predetermined spatial dependency of color and/or opacity and/or of optical structural features in the blank to a chronologically forwardly directed simulation of the flow processes during the pressing of the material through the channel structure into the mold cavity, to thereby obtain the resulting spatial dependency of color and/or opacity and/or of optical structural features in the mold cavity, and by varying said predetermined spatial dependency of color and/or opacity and/or of optical structural features and repeating said chronologically forwardly directed simulation until the resulting spatial dependency of color and/or opacity and/or of optical structural features in the mold cavity coincides with desired spatial dependency of color and/or opacity and/or of optical structural features in the dental restoration, and the blank is made available by being built up individually in an additive method with the determined spatial dependency of color and/or opacity and/or of optical structural features. i) either by subjecting the desired distribution of color and/or opacity and of optical structural features in the dental restoration to be produced to a chronologically backwards simulation of the flow processes during the pressing of the material through the channel structure into the mold cavity, in order thereby to obtain, in the blank, the spatially dependency of color and/or opacity which, after the material being pressed into the mold cavity, provides there the desired distribution of color and/or opacity and/or of optical structural features, ii) or by subjecting a predetermined spatial dependency of color and/or opacity and/or of optical structural features in the blank to a chronologically forwardly directed simulation of the flow processes during the pressing of the material through the channel structure into the mold cavity, to thereby obtain the resulting spatial dependency of color and/or opacity and/or of optical structural features in the mold cavity, and by varying said predetermined spatial dependency of color and/or opacity and/or of optical structural features and repeating said chronologically forwardly directed simulation until the resulting spatial dependency of color and/or opacity and/or of optical structural features in the mold cavity coincides with desired spatial dependency of color and/or opacity and/or of optical structural features in the dental restoration, and