A method for automatic ink presetting on inking units in printing units (2 to 5) of printing presses, wherein a respective ink metering device, which comprises a quantity of ink metering elements corresponding to the ink zone quantity of the inking unit, is preset at each inking unit prior to the printing in such a way that a printed print product printed with this presetting comes as close as possible to a printing master, wherein printing unit-specific and/or printing press-specific as well as printing means-specific and/or printing ink-specific setting parameters are determined for the ink metering elements of the inking units, and wherein the presetting of the ink metering elements of the ink metering device of the inking units furthermore takes place using the printing means-specific and/or printing ink-specific as well as the printing unit-specific and/or printing press-specific setting parameters, characterized by the following steps: a) providing presetting values for the inking units of a printing press for a print job with certain printing inks and printing materials based on prepress data relating to the ink consumption of the printing plates of the print job by means of printing unit-specific and/or printing press-specific parameters (P0, P1) stored in the printing press, wherein in each printing press to be calibrated, a basic parameter set (P0, P1) for the settings of the ink metering devices, which are relevant with regard to the ink guidance, is produced successively in each of the printing units of said printing press, each with a standardized printing forme, on standardized printing material and a standardized printing ink used identically in all printing units (2 to 5), in an inking unit under defined basic conditions for a printing press, and the parameters (P0, P1) reproduce properties for the ink supply setting in a printing unit (2 to 5) between opening position of each of the ink metering elements and a corresponding surface coverage on a printing plate used in a printing unit, b) applying correction values determined for various printing standards to the printing unit-specific and/or printing press-specific parameters (P0, P1) for a printing means-specific and/or printing ink-specific presetting correction derived from the data of the print job for each inking unit, and c) carrying out the ink metering presetting for the inking units by means of the presetting values to which the correction values are applied, d) wherein the correction values are determined by comparing calibrated presetting values for the ink metering elements to compensated setting values of a printing ink to be actively used, as factors, which are assigned to printing material classes. a) providing presetting values for the inking units of a printing press for a print job with certain printing inks and printing materials based on prepress data relating to the ink consumption of the printing plates of the print job by means of printing unit-specific and/or printing press-specific parameters (P0, P1) stored in the printing press, wherein in each printing press to be calibrated, a basic parameter set (P0, P1) for the settings of the ink metering devices, which are relevant with regard to the ink guidance, is produced successively in each of the printing units of said printing press, each with a standardized printing forme, on standardized printing material and a standardized printing ink used identically in all printing units (2 to 5), in an inking unit under defined basic conditions for a printing press, and the parameters (P0, P1) reproduce properties for the ink supply setting in a printing unit (2 to 5) between opening position of each of the ink metering elements and a corresponding surface coverage on a printing plate used in a printing unit, b) applying correction values determined for various printing standards to the printing unit-specific and/or printing press-specific parameters (P0, P1) for a printing means-specific and/or printing ink-specific presetting correction derived from the data of the print job for each inking unit, and c) carrying out the ink metering presetting for the inking units by means of the presetting values to which the correction values are applied, d) wherein the correction values are determined by comparing calibrated presetting values for the ink metering elements to compensated setting values of a printing ink to be actively used, as factors, which are assigned to printing material classes.