Printing plate workflow controlled with the aid of the transport cart

A method for correctly mounting printing plates in a printing press to be equipped with the printing plates, the method using prepress software, at least one transport device, at least one identification device disposed on the at least one transport device, and a scanning device at the printing press, which comprises the steps of:

• defining, via the prepress software, a sequence of print jobs to be processed by the printing press;
• sending data for making the printing plates for the print jobs defined in the processing sequence to a platesetter via a communication link;
• producing via the platesetter the printing plates;
• depositing the printing plates on the at least one transport device;
• conveying the at least one transport device to the printing press;
• and
• reading the at least identification device disposed on the at least one transport device by the scanning device at the printing press and the sequence of print jobs that have been identified in this way are compared to the sequence of print jobs which the prepress software has assigned to the printing press.