Electronic assistance for cutting profile samples to length, with the extrusion and test parameters being accurately assigned

Method for producing plastic profiles including the following steps:

• on an extrusion line, a starting material is plasticized in an extruder,
• pressing the starting material through an extrusion die,
• cooling and calibrating a extruded material in a dry calibration and/or a wet calibration, and
• cutting the extruded material to length to form individual profile rods,
• cutting to length one or more profile samples intermittently at any point in time,
• applying, via a labelling device, on the profile samples characteristic information relating to a current extrusion process used to create the profile samples, wherein the characteristic information is generated by taking into account a transit time of the profile, wherein the transit time is the time it takes for the profile sample to travel from the extruder to the labelling device.