Patent ID: 7347144

Claim:
A method for carrying out a production change on a printing press specific to a printing plate of the printing press, comprising: stopping a first print job on the printing press automatically after a predefined print run level has been reached or another termination criterion for the first print job has occurred; loading automatically by the printing press parameters required for printing a second print job following the first print job; before or after the parameters of the second print job are loaded, automatically carrying out on the printing press a printing plate change, to achieve production readiness for the second print job; after production readiness for the second print job has been achieved, automatically generating a production readiness signal for the second print job; receiving a print job confirmation after the production readiness signal for the second print job is generated; starting the second print job in response to the print job confirmation; and monitoring a time period between the generation of the production readiness signal and receipt of the print job confirmation.