Patent ID: 8601946

Claim:
A method for automatically feeding printing plates to a plate cylinder of a printing press, the method comprising the following steps: guiding a leading edge of a printing plate into a clamping rail of the plate cylinder using conveying devices having conveying element pairs to be brought into contact with the printing plate, the conveying element pairs being spaced apart from one another along an axial direction of the plate cylinder; checking an in-register contact of the printing plate in the clamping rail at two locations of the clamping rail being spaced apart from each other in the axial direction of the plate cylinder; subsequently fixing the printing plate in the clamping rail if a position is in register; and if the printing plate has in-register contact only at one location of the clamping rail, breaking contact between a conveying element of a first one of the conveying element pairs and the printing plate for a predefined time interval and then producing a contact between the printing plate and the conveying element again, while conveying elements of a second one of the conveying element pairs remains in contact with the printing plate.