摘要 |
<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enable a printing plate to be at least more simply handled even if it is at least an extremely large size by improving a method for handling the printing plate and the printing plate to be supplied to an exposure device for forming an image inside a handling apparatus. <P>SOLUTION: A delivery apparatus comprises supplying a plurality of printing plates to at least one storage plane as a printing plate stack 10, supplying the storage plane 8 to a first partition 2 of an apparatus 1 for handling the printing plate to prevent vertical shift of the storage plane in the first partition 2, horizontally shifting the storage plane in a first direction 300 from the first partition to a second partition 3, vertically shifting the storage plane to a first position or a second position in the second partition, and individualizing the printing plate of the printing plate stack in the first position to supply to an image forming apparatus for forming the image on the printing plate or horizontally shifting the storage plane in a second direction 15 from the area of the first partition and the second partition to the outside. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT |