Machine for checking flexographic printing plates, or offset plates, or printing plates assemblies, or printed surfaces

A machine for checking flexographic printing plates, or offset plates, or plate assemblies, or printed surfaces, comprising:

• a base,
• a support plane, associated with said base, for at least one printing plate, or offset plate, or plate assembly, or printed surface, the surface or physical characteristics of which are to be checked and controlled,
• a control unit,
• a surface scanning unit of the at least one printing plate, or offset plate, or plate assembly, or printed surface to be checked,
• said scanning unit being operatively connected to said control unit, and configured to acquire a real image of the at least one printing plate, or offset plate, or plate assembly, or printed surface to be checked,
• said control unit being configured to automatically compare said real image of the at least one printing plate, or offset plate, or plate assembly, or printed surface, acquired by said scanning unit, and the reference image corresponding to the creation file of a printing plate, or of a sheet of multiple plates, or the creation file of an offset plate or the file of the final print to be made, to automatically recognize any physical or superficial defects in the analyzed object in order to validate it or not to avoid the use of incorrect or worn plates, or to avoid the creation of expensive print tests, or to automatically recognize and avoid an erroneous print or in order to speed up the initialization of new print jobs on existing machines without control systems, reducing in any case, in all these circumstances, energy consumption and therefore CO2.