Patent ID: 8322283

Claim:
A method for providing printing formes at installation positions on at least one of a plurality of forme cylinders disposed in a printing press including: providing at least one plate line, and having a plate line end spatially separate from the printing press; providing at least one plate exposure device in said at least one plate line; using said at least one plate line for providing a plurality of printing formes at said plate line end; providing a plurality of mobile collecting containers at said plate line; distributing printing formes assigned to a specific one of the forme cylinders among a plurality of said mobile collecting containers provided at the plate line; conveying different ones of said mobile collecting containers, along with the printing formes arranged therein and assigned to the same forme cylinder, from the plate line to said forme cylinder; providing a mobile collecting container guidance system and transporting the mobile collecting containers to the printing press along said guidance system; providing a vehicle master computer and determining a current position of at least one of the mobile collecting containers that are moved along the guidance system by use of said vehicle master computer; providing, at a specific time, a plurality of said mobile collecting containers, that are being conveyed from the plate line to the specific one of the forme cylinders, side by side in an axial direction of the specific one of the forme cylinders on one operating side of the printing press; assigning said printing formes conveyed to the printing press in said different mobile collecting containers to respective installation positions arranged side by side on the specific one of the forme cylinders, in the axial direction thereof; removing said printing formes from said different mobile collecting containers, provided side by side at the specific time; and providing said removed printing formes at said respective installation positions on the specific one of the forme cylinders.