Patent ID: 8127678

Claim:
A method for providing information about printing formes to be manufactured for a new production run of a printing press, in which a use of at least one of said printing formes ( 01 ) at its location of use in the printing press is visualized in a display of a display device ( 52 ), wherein a plurality of different positions exist at the location of use of the relevant printing forme ( 01 ), wherein each of said positions relates to one of multiple mounting positions on a forme cylinder ( 06 ) having the multiple mounting positions and arranged in the printing press, or to one of multiple storage positions in one of multiple chutes having the relevant storage position, said chutes being disposed in a printing forme magazine ( 09 ) assigned to one of the forme cylinders ( 06 ) in the printing press, wherein the display of the display device ( 52 ) displays simultaneously a plurality of different locations of use in the printing press, wherein the display displays at which of the positions of a specific location of use having multiple positions a printing forme ( 01 ) is to be provided, wherein the display also displays different states and/or properties relating to at least one manufactured printing forme ( 01 ), characterized in that the display displays simultaneously multiple different production runs to be executed sequentially in the same printing press, with a plurality of locations of use, assigned to said production runs, for the printing formes ( 01 ) that are required for the respective production runs.